The Everyday Writer with Exercises

The Everyday Writer with Exercises equips you to make informed writing choices for your courses, your career, and your community while also providing all of the writing resources you need in an engaging and highly-visual handbook.

List of contents

Writing Rhetorically
1. A Writer¿s Opportunities¿¿
2. A Writer¿s Choices
3. Exploring, Planning, and Drafting¿¿
4. Developing Paragraphs¿¿
5. Reviewing, Revising, and Editing¿¿
6. Reflecting¿

Critical Thinking and Argument
7. Critical Reading¿¿
8. Analyzing Arguments
9. Constructing arguments¿

Research
10. Doing research
11. Evaluating Sources ¿
12. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism¿

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing
13. Writing Well and Ethically in Any Discipline or Profession¿
14. Writing in the Humanities¿¿
15. Writing in the Social Sciences¿
16. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences¿¿
17. Writing in Professional Settings¿¿
18. Making Design Decisions¿¿
19. Creating Presentations¿¿
20. Communicating in Other Mediä¿
21. Writing to Make Something Happen in the World¿¿

Language and Style
22. Language and Identity
23. Language Varieties¿
24. Writing to the World¿
25. Language That Builds Common Ground¿¿
26. Style Matters!
27. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis
28. Consistency and Completeness
29. Parallelism
30. Shifts
31. Conciseness

32. The Top Twenty

Sentence Grammar
33. Parts of Speech
34. Parts of Sentences
35. Verbs and Verb Phrases
36. Nouns and Noun Phrases
37. Subject-Verb Agreement
38. Pronouns
39. Adjectives and Adverbs
40. Modifier Placement
41. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
42. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
43. Sentence Fragments

Punctuation and Mechanics
44. Commas
45. Semicolons
46. End Punctuation
47. Apostrophes
48. Quotation Marks
49. Other Punctuation Marks
50. Capital Letters
51. Abbreviations and Numbers
52. Italics and Hyphens

MLA Documentation
53. The Basics of MLA Style
54. MLA Style for In-Text Citations
55. MLA Style for a List of Works Cited
56. A Student Research Essay, MLA Style

APA Documentation
57. The Basics of APA Style
58. APA Style for In-Text Citations
59. APA Style for a List of References
60. A Student Research Essay, APA Style

Chicago Documentation
61. The Basics of Chicago Style
62. Chicago Style for Notes and Bibliographic Entries
63. An Excerpt from a Student Research Essay, Chicago Style

About the author

Andrea A. Lunsford

Product details

• Authors: Andrea A. Lunsford
• Publisher: Macmillan Learning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Spiral bound
• Released: 19.12.2022
• EAN: 9781319412135
• ISBN: 978-1-319-41213-5
• No. of pages: 646
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries