Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
Fourth Edition ©2023 Andrea A. Lunsford
Authors
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Andrea A. Lunsford
Andrea 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. 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. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977). She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.
Andreas 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. 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. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martins 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 is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin’s English Community site.
Andrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association--and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
PART 1 Your Course
1 Planning the Course
2 Sample Syllabi
3 Designing Effective Assignments
4 Sample Assignments
5 Responding to Student Writing 6 Using a Handbook by Kendra N. Bryant
7 Composing Multimodal Texts with contributions from Michael Moore
8 Using Corpus Linguistic Analysis with First-Year Student Writers by Laura L. Aull
9 Teaching with Digital Tools: Achieve and E-books
PART 2 Your Teaching
10 The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
11 Rhetorical Situations
12 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
13 Paragraphs
14 Language by Kendra N. Bryant
15 Argument
16 Research
17 Peer Review, Revision, and Reflection
18 Design and Multimodality
19 Writing in the Disciplines
20 Writing for Public Audiences
21 Helping Multilingual Writers
Introduction to Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
PART 1 Your Course
1 Planning the Course
1.1 Your Writing Course and Your Approach
1.2 Using the Handbook
1.3 Organizing the Course Design
1.4 Feedback and Assessment
1.5 Designing a Portfolio-Based Course
1.6 Figuring Out a Realistic Time Frame
1.7 The First Day and Beyond
2 Sample Syllabi
2.1 Syllabus 1: The St. Martin’s Handbook
2.2 Syllabus 2: The Everyday Writer
2.3 Syllabus 3: Achieve with EasyWriter
3 Designing Effective Assignments
3.1 The Purpose of Writing Assignments
3.2 How to Create Effective Writing Prompts
3.3 Making Assignments Plagiarism - Resistant
3.4 Sequencing Your Assignments and Providing Scaffolding
4 Sample Assignments
4.1 Assignment 1: Letter
4.2 Assignment 2: Argumentative Essay
5 Responding to Student Writing
5.1 Looking for Strengths in Student Writing
5.2 Know Your Purposes in Responding
5.3 Know Your Role as a Responder
5.4 Understand the Student’s Perspective
5.5 The Realities of the Workload
5.6 Use Other Types of Feedback
6 Using a Handbook by Kendra N. Bryant
6.1 Know Where You Come From
6.2 Check Yo’self Befo’ You Wreck Yo’self
6.3 Throw It Back
6.4 Make It Make Sense
6.5 Keep It Real
7 Composing Multimodal Texts with contributions from Michael Moore
7.1 Why Rethink Composition?
7.2 The Digital Literacy Narrative
7.3 Types of Multimodal Texts
8 Using Corpus Linguistic Analysis with First-Year Student Writers by Laura L. Aull
8.1 What Is Corpus Linguistic Analysis?
8.2 Why Use Corpus Linguistic Analysis with Students?
8.3 What Can Your Students Do with Corpus Linguistic Analysis?
8.4 What Free Tools Are Available?
8.5 Analyzing Texts You Choose: Classroom Activity
9 Teaching with Digital Tools: Achieve and E-books
9.1 Using Achieve to Increase Student Engagement
9.2 Introducing Students to Achieve
9.3 Creating Writing Assignments in Achieve
9.4 Understanding the Reflection and Revision Planning Tools in Achieve
9.5 Using the Commenting and Peer Review Tools in Achieve
9.6 Introducing Draft Comparison for Students and Instructors
9.7 Gaining Visibility into Your Students’ Writing Processes
9.8 Assigning Other Content: Diagnostics, Videos, LearningCurve, and More
9.9 Teaching with E-books
PART 2 Your Teaching
10 The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
10.1 Overview
10.2 Taking a Writing Inventory
10.3 Learning from Your Errors
10.4 The Top Twenty
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
11 Rhetorical Situations
11.1 Overview
11.2 Understanding Rhetorical Situations
11.3 Understanding Academic Assignments
11.4 Considering Audiences
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
12 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
12.1 Overview
12.2 Exploring a Topic
12.3 Gathering Information
12.4 Planning
12.5 Drafting
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
13 Paragraphs
13.1 Overview
13.2 Creating Strong Paragraphs
13.3 Writing Unified Paragraphs
13.4 Developing Paragraphs
13.5 Making Paragraphs Coherent
13.6 Writing Special-Purpose Paragraphs
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
14 Language by Kendra N. Bryant
14.1 Overview
14.2 Writing to the World
14.3 Language Varieties
14.4 Language That Builds Common Ground
14.5 Word Choice
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
15 Argument
15.1 Overview
15.2 Critical Reading
15.3 Analyzing Arguments
15.4 Constructing Arguments
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
16 Research
16.1 Preparing for a Research Project
16.2 Conducting Research
16.3 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
16.4 Evaluating Multimodal Sources
16.5 Integrating Sources into Your Writing
16.6 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
16.7 Writing a Research Project
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
17 Peer Review, Revision, and Reflection
17.1 Reviewing and Revising
17.2 Editing and Reflecting
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
18 Design and Multimodality
18.1 Thinking about Visuals and Writing for Diverse Media
18.2 Design for Writing
18.3 Online Texts
18.4 Oral and Multimedia Presentations
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
19 Writing in the Disciplines
19.1 Writing in Any Discipline
19.2 Writing in the Humanities
19.3 Writing in the Social Sciences
19.4 Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences
19.5 Writing in Professional Settings
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
20 Writing for Public Audiences
20.1 Overview
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
21 Helping Multilingual Writers
21.1 Writing in U.S. Academic Contexts
21.2 Clauses and Sentences
21.3 Nouns and Noun Phrases
21.4 Verbs and Verb Phrases
21.5 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
Product Updates
Advice for teaching with Achieve. A new overview of Achieve and practical tips for teaching with this powerful composition platform offer help for instructors who want to create an engaging, equitable digital learning experience.
Critical language awareness. A substantially revised chapter on language (Ch 14) helps instructors build students critical skills about the history and politics of the English(es) we use in academic environments.
A new foundational chapter and a new voice. Kendra N. Bryant, composition director at North Carolina A&T State University, offers a new chapter on using a handbook (Ch 6) – in which she provides tips on antiracist teaching practices, such as acknowledging privilege. Bryant has also substantially revised the chapter on language.
New suggestions from Andrea Lunsford’s blog provide additional advice and teaching ideas from Andrea Lunsford and other guest bloggers. Recent topics include artificial intelligence and writing, multimodality, ideas about “Standard” English, and undergraduate research. Links take instructors to the Macmillan English Community.
Authors
-
Andrea A. Lunsford
Andrea 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. 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. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977). She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.
Andreas 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. 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. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martins 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 is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin’s English Community site.
Andrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association--and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
PART 1 Your Course
1 Planning the Course
2 Sample Syllabi
3 Designing Effective Assignments
4 Sample Assignments
5 Responding to Student Writing 6 Using a Handbook by Kendra N. Bryant
7 Composing Multimodal Texts with contributions from Michael Moore
8 Using Corpus Linguistic Analysis with First-Year Student Writers by Laura L. Aull
9 Teaching with Digital Tools: Achieve and E-books
PART 2 Your Teaching
10 The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
11 Rhetorical Situations
12 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
13 Paragraphs
14 Language by Kendra N. Bryant
15 Argument
16 Research
17 Peer Review, Revision, and Reflection
18 Design and Multimodality
19 Writing in the Disciplines
20 Writing for Public Audiences
21 Helping Multilingual Writers
Introduction to Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
PART 1 Your Course
1 Planning the Course
1.1 Your Writing Course and Your Approach
1.2 Using the Handbook
1.3 Organizing the Course Design
1.4 Feedback and Assessment
1.5 Designing a Portfolio-Based Course
1.6 Figuring Out a Realistic Time Frame
1.7 The First Day and Beyond
2 Sample Syllabi
2.1 Syllabus 1: The St. Martin’s Handbook
2.2 Syllabus 2: The Everyday Writer
2.3 Syllabus 3: Achieve with EasyWriter
3 Designing Effective Assignments
3.1 The Purpose of Writing Assignments
3.2 How to Create Effective Writing Prompts
3.3 Making Assignments Plagiarism - Resistant
3.4 Sequencing Your Assignments and Providing Scaffolding
4 Sample Assignments
4.1 Assignment 1: Letter
4.2 Assignment 2: Argumentative Essay
5 Responding to Student Writing
5.1 Looking for Strengths in Student Writing
5.2 Know Your Purposes in Responding
5.3 Know Your Role as a Responder
5.4 Understand the Student’s Perspective
5.5 The Realities of the Workload
5.6 Use Other Types of Feedback
6 Using a Handbook by Kendra N. Bryant
6.1 Know Where You Come From
6.2 Check Yo’self Befo’ You Wreck Yo’self
6.3 Throw It Back
6.4 Make It Make Sense
6.5 Keep It Real
7 Composing Multimodal Texts with contributions from Michael Moore
7.1 Why Rethink Composition?
7.2 The Digital Literacy Narrative
7.3 Types of Multimodal Texts
8 Using Corpus Linguistic Analysis with First-Year Student Writers by Laura L. Aull
8.1 What Is Corpus Linguistic Analysis?
8.2 Why Use Corpus Linguistic Analysis with Students?
8.3 What Can Your Students Do with Corpus Linguistic Analysis?
8.4 What Free Tools Are Available?
8.5 Analyzing Texts You Choose: Classroom Activity
9 Teaching with Digital Tools: Achieve and E-books
9.1 Using Achieve to Increase Student Engagement
9.2 Introducing Students to Achieve
9.3 Creating Writing Assignments in Achieve
9.4 Understanding the Reflection and Revision Planning Tools in Achieve
9.5 Using the Commenting and Peer Review Tools in Achieve
9.6 Introducing Draft Comparison for Students and Instructors
9.7 Gaining Visibility into Your Students’ Writing Processes
9.8 Assigning Other Content: Diagnostics, Videos, LearningCurve, and More
9.9 Teaching with E-books
PART 2 Your Teaching
10 The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
10.1 Overview
10.2 Taking a Writing Inventory
10.3 Learning from Your Errors
10.4 The Top Twenty
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
11 Rhetorical Situations
11.1 Overview
11.2 Understanding Rhetorical Situations
11.3 Understanding Academic Assignments
11.4 Considering Audiences
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
12 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
12.1 Overview
12.2 Exploring a Topic
12.3 Gathering Information
12.4 Planning
12.5 Drafting
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
13 Paragraphs
13.1 Overview
13.2 Creating Strong Paragraphs
13.3 Writing Unified Paragraphs
13.4 Developing Paragraphs
13.5 Making Paragraphs Coherent
13.6 Writing Special-Purpose Paragraphs
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
14 Language by Kendra N. Bryant
14.1 Overview
14.2 Writing to the World
14.3 Language Varieties
14.4 Language That Builds Common Ground
14.5 Word Choice
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
15 Argument
15.1 Overview
15.2 Critical Reading
15.3 Analyzing Arguments
15.4 Constructing Arguments
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
16 Research
16.1 Preparing for a Research Project
16.2 Conducting Research
16.3 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
16.4 Evaluating Multimodal Sources
16.5 Integrating Sources into Your Writing
16.6 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
16.7 Writing a Research Project
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
17 Peer Review, Revision, and Reflection
17.1 Reviewing and Revising
17.2 Editing and Reflecting
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
18 Design and Multimodality
18.1 Thinking about Visuals and Writing for Diverse Media
18.2 Design for Writing
18.3 Online Texts
18.4 Oral and Multimedia Presentations
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
19 Writing in the Disciplines
19.1 Writing in Any Discipline
19.2 Writing in the Humanities
19.3 Writing in the Social Sciences
19.4 Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences
19.5 Writing in Professional Settings
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
20 Writing for Public Audiences
20.1 Overview
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
21 Helping Multilingual Writers
21.1 Writing in U.S. Academic Contexts
21.2 Clauses and Sentences
21.3 Nouns and Noun Phrases
21.4 Verbs and Verb Phrases
21.5 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
Product Updates
Advice for teaching with Achieve. A new overview of Achieve and practical tips for teaching with this powerful composition platform offer help for instructors who want to create an engaging, equitable digital learning experience.
Critical language awareness. A substantially revised chapter on language (Ch 14) helps instructors build students critical skills about the history and politics of the English(es) we use in academic environments.
A new foundational chapter and a new voice. Kendra N. Bryant, composition director at North Carolina A&T State University, offers a new chapter on using a handbook (Ch 6) – in which she provides tips on antiracist teaching practices, such as acknowledging privilege. Bryant has also substantially revised the chapter on language.
New suggestions from Andrea Lunsford’s blog provide additional advice and teaching ideas from Andrea Lunsford and other guest bloggers. Recent topics include artificial intelligence and writing, multimodality, ideas about “Standard” English, and undergraduate research. Links take instructors to the Macmillan English Community.
Make the most of your handbook
Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks is a collection of advice, teaching tips, and sample documents to support handbooks by Andrea A. Lunsford. This resource offers help for any instructor who wants students to use a handbook and related digital tools more effectively both in the writing course and beyond. The fourth edition provides a stronger emphasis on teaching with digital tools, such as Achieve and e-books, teaching in digital and hybrid environments, and teaching critical language awareness.Looking for instructor resources like Test Banks, Lecture Slides, and Clicker Questions? Request access to Achieve to explore the full suite of instructor resources.
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Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks is a collection of advice, teaching tips, and sample documents to support handbooks by Andrea A. Lunsford. This resource offers help for any instructor who wants students to use a handbook and related digital tools more effectively both in the writing course and beyond. The fourth edition provides a stronger emphasis on teaching with digital tools, such as Achieve and e-books, teaching in digital and hybrid environments, and teaching critical language awareness.
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