The Everyday Writer with 2016 MLA Update

Contexts for writing keep changing, and Andrea Lunsford knows that every writer needs to engage with audiences and communicate ideas every day. The Everyday Writer shows novice writers how to navigate rhetorical situations and make effective choices everywhere they write. The illustrations, by Eisner Award nominee GB Tran, offer a high-interest approach to writing processes and encourage students to open and use their handbook. And Andrea’s friendly voice is always front and center, ready to answer any question. With new and expanded coverage of presentations and multimodal projects, integrated advice for writers from all language and educational backgrounds, and help learning the moves that make expert writers credible, The Everyday Writer is the encouraging guide students need to take their writing to the next level.Key features:Andrea’s support for student writing and student writers grows out of her decades of teaching—she’s never met a student she didn’t like--and her research into what students are actually writing, in class and out. Andrea knows what novice writers can accomplish if they make good choices in their academic, social, and public writing.A rhetorical approach calling for attention to good writing, not just to surface correctness, supports the way instructors actually teach composition.A thorough introduction to academic, professional, and public writing covers rhetorical situations and other aspects of writing processes; critical reading and thinking; library, online, and field research; writing in the disciplines; documentation styles; and writing that “makes something happen in the world.”A high-interest, visual approach to writing, with plentiful illustrations by graphic artist GB Tran, helps  students visualize and engage with complex aspects of the writing process.Coverage of using varieties of English effectively offers practical advice to help students make good choices in all their communication and navigate discourse communities successfully.