The Everyday Writer, Exercise Version
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Beschreibung
Open your handbook--and open your mind.
The Everyday Writer, Seventh Edition, invites you to think through the choices you have in any writing situation--in other words, it invites you to think rhetorically. A book for our times, it will also help you communicate ethically, listen respectfully, experiment with language, and adopt openness as a habit of mind. Plenty of student models help you with different kinds of writing, and Lunsford’s Top Twenty serves as a guide for building your confidence as editor of your own work. An easy-to-use practical guide to the power of writers’ language and the power of writers’ choices, The Everyday Writer is your tool for making something happen in the classroom--and in the world.
The Everyday Writer, invites students to think rhetorically, communicate ethically, listen respectfully, experiment with language, and adopt openness as a habit of mind necessary for democracy.
The seventh edition introduces new chapters on college expectations and on language and identity as well as substantial new advice for reading and interrogating sources, seeking common ground with opponents, using varieties of English, and being open to new approaches in common academic genres. New student models of rhetorical analysis, researched argument, speech, and translingual narrative invigorate the book. As always, Lunsford’s Top Twenty serves as a guide for building students’ confidence as editors of their own writing.
- Rhetorical grounding; the book is built on the idea that empowering writers and strengthening their skills starts with creating awareness of the choices they have and encouraging reflection on the choices they make
- Highly visual; friendly and easy to use
- Comprehensive coverage of critical thinking, critical reading, and argument
- Awareness that academic writing is multimodal; throughout the book, rhetorical considerations assume that students are producing a variety of print and digital compositions
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- An emphasis on openness as a key habit of mind
- New strategies for defensive reading, critical thinking, and fact checking
- A stronger emphasis on narrative as an approach to academic writing
- New and powerful student writing in common genres
Students taking first year writing courses
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Andrea A. Lunsford
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