The St. Martin's Handbook with 2021 MLA Update
Ninth Edition ©2021 Andrea A. Lunsford Formats: E-book
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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
PART TWO—Critical Thinking and Argument 7. Reading Critically 8. Analyzing Arguments 9. Constructing Arguments
PART THREE—Doing Research and Using Sources 10. Preparing for a Research Project 11. Conducting Research 12. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes 13. Integrating Sources into Your Writing 14. Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 15. Writing a Research Project
PART FOUR—Designing and Performing Writing 16. Design for Writing 17. Oral and Multimedia Presentations 18. Communicating in Other Media PART FIVE—Academic and Professional Writing 19. Academic Work in Any Discipline 21. Writing for the Social Sciences 22. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences 23. Writing for Business 24. Essay Examinations 25. Portfolios 26. Writing to Make Something Happen in the World PART SIX—Effective Language 27. Writing to the World 28. Language That Builds Common Ground 29. Language Variety 30. Word Choice 31. Dictionaries, Vocabulary, and Spelling PART SEVEN—Documenting Sources 32. MLA Style 33. APA Style 34. Chicago Style 35. CSE Style PART EIGHT—Sentence Grammar 36. Grammatical Sentences 37. Clauses and Sentences 38. Nouns and Noun Phrases 39. Verbs 40. Verbs and Verb Phrases 41. Subject-Verb Agreement 42. Pronouns 43. Adjectives and Adverbs 44. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases PART NINE—Sentence Clarity 45. Confusing Shifts 46. Parallelism 47. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 48. Sentence Fragments 49. Modifier Placement 50. Consistent and Complete Structures PART TEN—Sentence Style 51. Concise writing 52. Coordination and Subordination 53. Sentence Variety 54. Memorable Prose PART ELEVEN—Punctuation 55. Commas 56. Semicolons 57. End Punctuation 58. Apostrophes 59. Quotation Marks 60. Other Punctuation Marks PART TWELVE—Mechanics 61. Capital Letters 62. Abbreviations and Numbers 63. Italics 64. Hyphens
Product Updates
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).
An emphasis on being an open-minded learner Based on new research with college writers and teachers of writing, a substantially revised “Expectations for College Writing” chapter provides a framework for developing the habits of open-minded readers, writers, listeners, and speakers. A new approach invites students to expect and engage difference and provides strategies for communicating respectfully with others and for stepping outside their social and ideological comfort zones. The ninth edition, featuring the voices of real students from across the country, helps writers think critically about the barriers to and benefits of openness—and better equips them for communicating in a global world.
New strategies for defensive reading, critical thinking, and fact checking Writing with sources is a foundational skill for college, and too many students arrive with little experience in questioning the sources they read online and approaching them with skepticism. Revised advice for critical reading and evaluating and new tips for fact checking help students respond to the information and misinformation in news sources and in social media—and help them balance open-mindedness and skepticism as they evaluate sources.
A broader presentation of language use Grounded in the argument that language is power, The St. Martin’s Handbook coaches students in both following and experimenting with conventions. A new chapter on language and identity helps students think more openly and carefully about language we use to present ourselves and language used to label us and others. A new reading by Andrea Lunsford explores the theme of “narrative justice,” the idea of giving people the opportunity to use their own language to control the narrative—the story—of their own experience. A revised chapter on language varieties fosters a new openness to translingual composition—with excerpts from student writing. Finally, attention to gender preference and pronoun use raises awareness about writing and speaking to include rather than exclude.
New examples of student writing that emphasize narrative elements, combine languages, and respond to common assignments Some students come to college thinking of “academic writing” as boring and formulaic. New examples of student writing in the ninth edition defy that description, reimagining the role of narrative in argumentative and analytical writing and validating writing that brings in other languages for rhetorical effect.
Reorganized contents for academic writers The ninth edition groups argument, critical thinking, research, and documentation together so that the instruction at the heart of the composition course is centralized in the handbook. In addition, we’ve grouped the language and style chapters together and have made the Top Twenty easier to find.
More help with field research One way students can control the sources and data they use in their writing is to collect their own information with field research techniques such as polling, interviewing, and observing. The ninth edition includes new sample questions presented in visual format.
Up-to-date documentation help in four styles The St. Martin’s Handbook, offering guidance for writing in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles, serves as a useful and valuable companion throughout college and across the disciplines. The ninth edition includes the most recent Modern Language Association (2016), American Psychological Association (2020), University of Chicago (2017), and Council of Science Editors (2014) guidelines.
A new resource for developing college writers in corequisite composition A new supplemental workbook for students in paired or corequisite composition sections provides a wide range of activities to help students practice the skills and habits they need to be successful academic writers. A Student’s Companion to Lunsford Handbooks is designed to help underprepared students improve their reading and writing performance—with college success material on time management and etiquette, substantial coverage of reading strategies, graphic organizers for visual learners, and more than 60 exercises on writing, research, and grammar.
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
PART TWO—Critical Thinking and Argument 7. Reading Critically 8. Analyzing Arguments 9. Constructing Arguments
PART THREE—Doing Research and Using Sources 10. Preparing for a Research Project 11. Conducting Research 12. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes 13. Integrating Sources into Your Writing 14. Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 15. Writing a Research Project
PART FOUR—Designing and Performing Writing 16. Design for Writing 17. Oral and Multimedia Presentations 18. Communicating in Other Media PART FIVE—Academic and Professional Writing 19. Academic Work in Any Discipline 21. Writing for the Social Sciences 22. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences 23. Writing for Business 24. Essay Examinations 25. Portfolios 26. Writing to Make Something Happen in the World PART SIX—Effective Language 27. Writing to the World 28. Language That Builds Common Ground 29. Language Variety 30. Word Choice 31. Dictionaries, Vocabulary, and Spelling PART SEVEN—Documenting Sources 32. MLA Style 33. APA Style 34. Chicago Style 35. CSE Style PART EIGHT—Sentence Grammar 36. Grammatical Sentences 37. Clauses and Sentences 38. Nouns and Noun Phrases 39. Verbs 40. Verbs and Verb Phrases 41. Subject-Verb Agreement 42. Pronouns 43. Adjectives and Adverbs 44. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases PART NINE—Sentence Clarity 45. Confusing Shifts 46. Parallelism 47. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 48. Sentence Fragments 49. Modifier Placement 50. Consistent and Complete Structures PART TEN—Sentence Style 51. Concise writing 52. Coordination and Subordination 53. Sentence Variety 54. Memorable Prose PART ELEVEN—Punctuation 55. Commas 56. Semicolons 57. End Punctuation 58. Apostrophes 59. Quotation Marks 60. Other Punctuation Marks PART TWELVE—Mechanics 61. Capital Letters 62. Abbreviations and Numbers 63. Italics 64. Hyphens
Product Updates
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).
An emphasis on being an open-minded learner Based on new research with college writers and teachers of writing, a substantially revised “Expectations for College Writing” chapter provides a framework for developing the habits of open-minded readers, writers, listeners, and speakers. A new approach invites students to expect and engage difference and provides strategies for communicating respectfully with others and for stepping outside their social and ideological comfort zones. The ninth edition, featuring the voices of real students from across the country, helps writers think critically about the barriers to and benefits of openness—and better equips them for communicating in a global world.
New strategies for defensive reading, critical thinking, and fact checking Writing with sources is a foundational skill for college, and too many students arrive with little experience in questioning the sources they read online and approaching them with skepticism. Revised advice for critical reading and evaluating and new tips for fact checking help students respond to the information and misinformation in news sources and in social media—and help them balance open-mindedness and skepticism as they evaluate sources.
A broader presentation of language use Grounded in the argument that language is power, The St. Martin’s Handbook coaches students in both following and experimenting with conventions. A new chapter on language and identity helps students think more openly and carefully about language we use to present ourselves and language used to label us and others. A new reading by Andrea Lunsford explores the theme of “narrative justice,” the idea of giving people the opportunity to use their own language to control the narrative—the story—of their own experience. A revised chapter on language varieties fosters a new openness to translingual composition—with excerpts from student writing. Finally, attention to gender preference and pronoun use raises awareness about writing and speaking to include rather than exclude.
New examples of student writing that emphasize narrative elements, combine languages, and respond to common assignments Some students come to college thinking of “academic writing” as boring and formulaic. New examples of student writing in the ninth edition defy that description, reimagining the role of narrative in argumentative and analytical writing and validating writing that brings in other languages for rhetorical effect.
Reorganized contents for academic writers The ninth edition groups argument, critical thinking, research, and documentation together so that the instruction at the heart of the composition course is centralized in the handbook. In addition, we’ve grouped the language and style chapters together and have made the Top Twenty easier to find.
More help with field research One way students can control the sources and data they use in their writing is to collect their own information with field research techniques such as polling, interviewing, and observing. The ninth edition includes new sample questions presented in visual format.
Up-to-date documentation help in four styles The St. Martin’s Handbook, offering guidance for writing in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles, serves as a useful and valuable companion throughout college and across the disciplines. The ninth edition includes the most recent Modern Language Association (2016), American Psychological Association (2020), University of Chicago (2017), and Council of Science Editors (2014) guidelines.
A new resource for developing college writers in corequisite composition A new supplemental workbook for students in paired or corequisite composition sections provides a wide range of activities to help students practice the skills and habits they need to be successful academic writers. A Student’s Companion to Lunsford Handbooks is designed to help underprepared students improve their reading and writing performance—with college success material on time management and etiquette, substantial coverage of reading strategies, graphic organizers for visual learners, and more than 60 exercises on writing, research, and grammar.
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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).
Available as an e-book, The St. Martin’s Handbook, the most rhetorically grounded comprehensive handbook for composition, continues to do what it has always done: Present Andrea Lunsford’s substantial and timely research with student writers for student writers. The Ninth Edition reflects a nationwide survey of students and teachers related to how young people interact with others from different language and cultural backgrounds and with people with whom they disagree. New material on college expectations helps students think critically about barriers to and benefits of open and respectful dialogue and offers strategies for communicating outside of one’s comfort zone. Attention to gender and pronouns and to language varieties and identities supports students as they learn to write to include rather than to exclude. And throughout the Ninth Edition, which assumes students are writing traditional and multimodal projects in a mobile world, Andrea Lunsford asks students to see themselves as communicators in a global world.
With new student writing, stronger coverage of argument, new material on defensive reading and fact checking, more visual help with field research, the most up-to-date citation models, and a range of practice activities, The St. Martin’s Handbook helps a wide variety of college writers succeed.
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The St. Martin's Handbook with 2021 MLA Update
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).
Available as an e-book, The St. Martin’s Handbook, the most rhetorically grounded comprehensive handbook for composition, continues to do what it has always done: Present Andrea Lunsford’s substantial and timely research with student writers for student writers. The Ninth Edition reflects a nationwide survey of students and teachers related to how young people interact with others from different language and cultural backgrounds and with people with whom they disagree. New material on college expectations helps students think critically about barriers to and benefits of open and respectful dialogue and offers strategies for communicating outside of one’s comfort zone. Attention to gender and pronouns and to language varieties and identities supports students as they learn to write to include rather than to exclude. And throughout the Ninth Edition, which assumes students are writing traditional and multimodal projects in a mobile world, Andrea Lunsford asks students to see themselves as communicators in a global world.
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