EasyWriter, 5th Edition

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Andrea Lunsford’s research shows that students today are writing more than ever. Some skills, especially in social writing, come easily to many students. But concepts such as making effective choices for academic work and understanding the conventions of formal written English may be more difficult to grasp. EasyWriter, Fifth Edition, can help. Whether you’re looking for an affordable way to focus your writing classroom on rhetorical choices, or just a pocket-sized quick reference that your students can use on the go, you’ll find what you need in EasyWriter. And the handy little print book is just the beginning: EasyWriter now includes integrated media components—LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, video prompts, multimodal student writing, and more—to take advantage of what the Web can do.

Table of Contents

Part 1 WRITING
Chapter 1 A Writer’s Choices
Chapter 2 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
Chapter 3 Critical Thinking and Argument
Chapter 4 Multimodal Writing
Chapter 5 Writing in the Disciplines
Chapter 6 Writing to Make Something Happen in the World

Part 2 SENTENCE GRAMMAR
Chapter 7 Verbs
Chapter 8 Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 9 Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 10 Modifier Placement
Chapter 11 Pronouns
Chapter 12 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Chapter 13 Sentence Fragments

Part 3 SENTENCE STYLE
Chapter 14 Consistency and Completeness
Chapter 15 Coordination and Subordination
Chapter 16 Conciseness
Chapter 17 Parallelism
Chapter 18 Shifts

Part 4 PUNCTUATION/MECHANICS
Chapter 19 Commas
Chapter 20 Semicolons
Chapter 21 End Punctuation
Chapter 22 Apostrophes
Chapter 23 Quotation Marks
Chapter 24 Other Punctuation
Chapter 25 Capital Letters
Chapter 26 Abbreviations and Numbers
Chapter 27 Italics
Chapter 28 Hyphens

Part 5 LANGUAGE
Chapter 29 Writing to the World
Chapter 30 Language That Builds Common Ground
Chapter 31 Varieties of Language
Chapter 32 Word Choice

Part 6 MULTILINGUAL WRITERS
Chapter 33 Sentence Structure
Chapter 34 Nouns and Noun Phrases
Chapter 35 Verbs and Verb Phrases
Chapter 36 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Part 7 RESEARCH
Chapter 37 Conducting Research
Chapter 38 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
Chapter 39 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Chapter 40 Writing a Research Project

Part 8 DOCUMENTATION
Chapter 41 MLA Style
Chapter 42 APA Style
Chapter 43 CHICAGO Style
Chapter 44 CSE Style