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A Student's Companion to Lunsford Handbooks with 2021 MLA Update

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The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

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Cover: A Student's Companion to Lunsford Handbooks with 2021 MLA Update, 1st Edition by Bedford/St. Martin's

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The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

Writers develop over time. And the fact is, some writers need more time and more practice to develop the skills and habits that help them meet the challenges of the first year writing course. For those students enrolled in paired, co-requisite, or ALP sections, A Student’s Companion to Lunsford Handbooks offers practical support that will help them get up to speed and perform on-level.

The first half of the workbook offers instruction, opportunities for reflection, and graphic organizers for many kinds of writing. It also includes important college success strategies including time management and planning. The second half offers more than 65 exercises that students can complete right in the workbook—exercises covering a wide range of topics from thesis statements, unity, plagiarism, and paraphrasing to fragments, run-ons, commas, and verb tenses. Substantial coverage of reading strategies—along with a variety of reading activities—help reinforce the link between reading and writing performance at the college level.

Available as a print workbook, as an e-book, or as online content within select Achieve products, A Student’s Companion to Lunsford Handbooks builds skills, promotes good habits, and reinforces the instruction found in all of the Lunsford handbooks.

Features

  • This practical resource pairs advice with practice for the topics students will encounter in their first year writing course.
  • A Student’s Companion to Lunsford Handbooks can be paired with any Lunsford handbook and is included in all Lunsford Achieve courses.
  • Part I includes a “Building Your Confidence” chapter that guides students as they reflect on their strengths and set goals. 
  • For students who benefit from seeing a visual arrangement of ideas, graphic organizers for paragraphs and essays help students plan and organize different types of college writing.
  • Substantial chapters on reading strategies and reading activities support the link between reading and writing proficiency.
  • 65+ exercises offer practice with writing topics such as thesis statements, topic sentences, paraphrasing, and avoiding plagiarism and with sentence-level topics such as fragments, parallelism, active verbs, and commas.

    • New to This Edition

    “The chapters in this Student’s Companion support what we stress in ALP classes. Students in ALP sections benefit when the writing process is broken down for them and layered, as in the Companion.”
    — Ellen Shur, Middlesex County College

    “The graphic organizers are the most exciting part of the book. These will be so useful in a co-requisite lab course. They provide built-in practice with organization, which many students struggle with, but they also allow students some creativity.”
    –Jeffrey Miller, St. Charles Community College

    “I find that the instruction in reading strategies—close reading and annotation—is needed; the students in the ALP class know how to read but not necessarily how to read like college students.”
    –Sarah Gottschall, Prince George’s Community College

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    Table of Contents

    PART 1 Succeeding in College
    1 Becoming a college writer
    a Be open-minded about the “rules” of good writing
    b Adopt good habits of mind

    2 Building your confidence
    a Grow your level of confidence
    b Identify strengths and set goals
    c Learn from your experiences and choices
    d Develop a network

    3 Time management
    a The case for time management
    b Taking charge of your time
    c Four time-wasting habits to avoid
    d Two tools to keep you on track

    4 College ethics and personal responsibility
    a What is cheating?
    b The case for integrity
    c Tools teachers use when they suspect cheating
    d How to be a more responsible student: Ten tips
    e How to paraphrase (to avoid plagiarism)

    5 College etiquette
    a Four truths
    b Starting out
    c Classroom rules
    d Collaborating with others: The group project
    e Communicating with your professor

    PART 2 Succeeding in Your Writing Course
    6 Developing active reading strategies
    a On-ramps for reading assignments
    b Pay attention to titles
    c Read for patterns
    d Understand vocabulary
    e Identify main ideas
    f Outline what you read
    g One additional strategy: Converse with a reading

    7 Strengthening peer review and collaboration skills
    a What is peer review?
    b Tips for offering feedback to a peer
    c Tips for working with feedback from a peer
    d What is collaboration?
    e Tips for collaborating effectively

    8 Outlining and planning your writing
    a Use an informal outline to plan
    b Use a formal outline to plan
    c Use headings to plan
    d Use a map to plan

    9 Writing for an audience
    a The link between audience and purpose
    b Specific and specialized audiences
    c Thinking about content, tone, vocabulary, and exigence
    d Questions to help identify audience characteristics
    e Comparing sample paragraphs

    10 Graphic organizers for common types of writing
    a A basic essay
    b An analytical essay
    c A compare-and-contrast essay
    d An argument essay
    e An annotated bibliography
    f A proposal

    11 Graphic organizers for common types of paragraphs
    a Example
    b Illustration
    c Narration
    d Description
    e Process
    f Comparison and contrast
    g Analogy
    h Cause and effect
    i Classification and division
    j Definition
    k Reiteration

    12 Using sentence guides to develop academic writing skills
    a Presenting information and others’ views
    b Presenting your own views
    c Persuading by putting it all together

    13 Integrating sources: Quotation sandwiching (MLA style)
    a Integrating a single source
    b Integrating more than one source (synthesizing)

    14 Revising paragraphs and essays
    a Tips for revising globally
    b Tips for revising sentences

    PART 3 Practicing Reading, Writing, and Research Skills
    15 Reading exercises
    Exercise 15-a Using titles as on-ramps for reading
    Exercise 15-b Using patterns of organization as on-ramps for reading
    Exercise 15-c Using vocabulary as an on-ramp for reading
    Exercise 15-d Examining a reader’s annotations
    Exercise 15-e Using on-ramps to annotate and understand a reading
    Exercise 15-f Talking back to a reading

    16 Thesis statement exercises
    Exercise 16-a Choosing effective thesis statements
    Exercise 16-b Writing a thesis statement for an argument essay
    Exercise 16-c Building strong thesis statements

    17 Topic sentence exercises
    Exercise 17-a Choosing suitable topic sentences
    Exercise 17-b Writing topic sentences
    Exercise 17-c Writing unified paragraphs

    18 MLA research exercises
    Exercise 18-a Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
    Exercise 18-b Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
    Exercise 18-c Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers
    Exercise 18-d Integrating sources in MLA papers
    Exercise 18-e Integrating sources in MLA papers
    Exercise 18-f MLA documentation: In-text citations
    Exercise 18-g MLA documentation: Works cited
    Exercise 18-h MLA documentation

    19 Plagiarism exercises
    Exercise 19-a Is this plagiarism?
    Exercise 19-b Developing responsibility

    20 Paraphrase and summary exercises
    Exercise 20-a Building understanding (writing a summary)
    Exercise 20-b Using your own words and structure (writing a
    paraphrase)
    Exercise 20-c Writing paraphrases and summaries

    PART 4 Practicing Sentence-Level Skills
    21 Active verbs
    Exercise 21-a Active verbs (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 21-b Active verbs (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 21-c Active verbs (Editing paragraphs)


    22 Parallelism
    Exercise 22-a Parallelism (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 22-b Parallelism (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 22-c Parallelism (Editing paragraphs)

    23 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
    Exercise 23-a Misplaced and dangling modifiers (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 23-b Misplaced and dangling modifiers (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 23-c Misplaced and dangling modifiers (Editing paragraphs)

    24 Sentence variety
    Exercise 24-a Sentence variety (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 24-b Sentence variety (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 24-c Sentence variety (Editing paragraphs)

    25 Sentence fragments
    Exercise 25-a Sentence fragments (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 25-b Sentence fragments (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 25-c Sentence fragments (Editing paragraphs)

    26 Run-on sentences
    Exercise 26-a Run-on sentences (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 26-b Run-on sentences (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 26-c Run-on sentences (Editing paragraphs)

    27 Subject-verb agreement
    Exercise 27-a Subject-verb agreement (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 27-b Subject-verb agreement (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 27-c Subject-verb agreement (Editing paragraphs)

    28 Pronoun reference
    Exercise 28-a Pronoun reference (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 28-b Pronoun reference (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 28-c Pronoun reference (Editing paragraphs)

    29 Pronoun and noun case
    Exercise 29-a Pronoun and noun case (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 29-b Pronoun and noun case (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 29-c Pronoun and noun case (Editing paragraphs)

    30 Verbs
    Exercise 30-a Verbs (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 30-b Verbs (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 30-c Verbs (Editing paragraphs)

    31 Articles
    Exercise 31-a Articles (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 31-b Articles (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 31-c Articles (Editing paragraphs)

    32 Commas and unnecessary commas
    Exercise 32-a Commas and unnecessary commas (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 32-b Commas and unnecessary commas (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 32-c Commas and unnecessary commas (Editing paragraphs)

    33 Apostrophes
    Exercise 33-a Apostrophes (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 33-b Apostrophes (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 33-c Apostrophes (Editing paragraphs)

    34 Quotation marks
    Exercise 34-a Quotation marks (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 34-b Quotation marks (Editing sentences)
    Exercise 34-c Quotation marks (Editing paragraphs)
    Answers to exercises

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