She is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, and EasyWriter the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.Īndrea's scholarly interests include the contributions of women and people of color to rhetorical history, theory, and practice collaboration and collaborative writing, comics/graphic narratives translanguaging and style, and technologies of writing. in English at The Ohio State University (1977). degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea earned her B.A. Prior to this appointment, she was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000) and, before that, Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86) and Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College. Help with the “why” as well as the “how” of documentation helps students understand the purpose and uses of different documentation styles.ġ2 Writing to Make Something Happen in the Worldġ5 Integrating Sources and Avoiding PlagiarismĢ7 Prepositions and Prepositional PhrasesĪndrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000. EasyWriter provides information on using both library and Internet sources effectively, tips for avoiding plagiarism, and guidelines for MLA-, APA-, Chicago-, and CSE-style documentation. Up-to-date advice on research and documentation. Andrea Lunsford recognizes that there is no single standard for correctness in writing instead, effective texts follow conventions that depend on context. EasyWriter provides information that students can trust-and that they can find without having to wade through mountains of conflicting information.Ī focus on making choices, not on following rules. In EasyWriter and its digital resources, you’ll find models and advice on more genres of writing than in any other pocket handbook.Įxpert answers to students’ most common questions. As college writing (and workplace writing) has expanded to embrace new technologies and genres, Andrea Lunsford is leading the way in giving attention to today’s multimodal, participatory genres, such as blogs and web comics, in addition to traditional academic genres such as researched argument. Help with all the genres today’s students need to master. Her research on what, how, and why students write-from the Top Twenty to the Literacy Revolution-provides a solid foundation for EasyWriter’s advice. Andrea’s friendly, forward-thinking rhetorical approach starts where students are and shows them the moves they need to master to succeed as effective writers.

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