The St. Martin's Handbook with 2016 MLA update
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Beschreibung
A comprehensive handbook that shows students how to reflect on the writing skills they already have and put them to use both in traditional academic work and in multimodal projects like blog posts, websites, and presentations. Integrated advice on U.S. academic genres and language follows best practices for helping students from both international and native-speaker backgrounds improve their understanding of academic English.
Offers support for all students as they move from informal, social writing to effective academic writing and influential in the public sphere.
Focus on transferring current skills to academic writing and research projects, both print and web-based texts and presentationsA rhetorical approach shows that there is no single "correct" way to write - instead, effective writers make good choices for the situationA focus on reflection helps students engage with writing and transfer skills more effectively from one context to another new_to_this_edition Advice for multilingual writers integrated throughoutFocused, practical advice for making effective rhetorical choices across formats, including blogs and wikis to presentations and PechaKuchasConnect/Create/Reflect assignments in most chapters make the handbook teachable and help students learn to answer their own questions Two new sample research essays, one in MLA style and one in APA style, model proper formatting and effective writing from sources
Andrea Lunsford gives students credit for all the skills they’ve developed from social and informal writing, and she has thoroughly revised and updated The St. Martin’s Handbook to help students transfer those skills to today’s academic writing and research projects—from traditional print-based genres to Web-based texts and presentations.
Andrea Lunsford’s broad and deep research provides the groundwork for a comprehensive handbook that helps teachers teach and helps students find answers on their own.
A rhetorical approach shows that there is no single "correct" way to write—instead, effective writers make good choices for the situation.
A focus on reflection helps students engage with writing and transfer skills more effectively from one context to another.
Support for teachers includes advice and activities in Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks--plus Andrea’s weekly "Teacher to Teacher" blog and "Multimodal Mondays" assignment ideas on Bedford Bits.
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Andrea A. Lunsford
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