New student-written analysis, argument, and research essays provide useful models and annotations that teach. Three new graphic organizers for argument writing help visual learners plan and execute writing.
New visual help for writers and new student models. Attention to gender-neutral pronoun use raises awareness about writing to include rather than to exclude. A revised chapter on language varieties fosters a new openness to translingual composition-with excerpts from student writing. A new chapter, “Language and Identity” helps students think more openly and carefully about the language we claim as our own and about language used to label us and others. Grounded in an understanding of “standardized” English as the traditional language of power and access in the United States, EasyWriter coaches students in following, experimenting with, and even resisting conventions-and in respecting English in all of its forms and dialects. New advice also encourages students to seek out sources they might have otherwise overlooked.īroader presentation of language use. New advice for lateral reading and evaluating sources and revised 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. Many students enter college with little experience approaching sources with skepticism. New strategies for lateral reading, critical thinking, and fact checking. This new approach invites students to expect and engage difference and provides strategies for communicating respectfully with others across differences. A new opening chapter, “A Writer’s Opportunities,” provides a framework for developing the habits of open-minded readers, writers, listeners, and speakers. For corequisite composition courses, Achieve lets students sign in to their composition and corequisite sections with one easy process– and no additional fees.Įmphasis on being an open-minded learner. Fully editable pre-built assignments support the book’s approach, and an e-book version of EasyWriter is included for convenience. Developed to increase student engagement and to support best practices in commenting on drafts, Achieve is a flexible, integrated suite of tools for designing and facilitating writing assignments, paired with actionable insights that make students’ progress towards outcomes clear and measurable-all in a powerful, easy-to-use platform that works for in-person, remote, and hybrid learning scenarios. Achieve with EasyWriter puts student writing and revision at the core of your course, with a dedicated composition space that guides and engages students through drafting, peer review, source check, reflection, and revision and with diagnostics that generate personalized study plans for students. A focus on critical thinking and argument helps students read a variety of texts and compose effective arguments.Īchieve. With today’s challenges to finding credible, trustworthy information, EasyWriter provides reliable guidance for evaluating and citing sources.
Advice for speakers of all Englishes is integrated throughout the handbook.Īttention to research and a focus on critical thinking.
Advice about choosing and using language respectfully and rhetorically helps students communicate across differences. Building on the rhetorical grounding, the handbook supports students in effectively communicating in any discipline or genre and features a variety of student writing examples in many genres. EasyWriter empowers students to make effective choices for their writing based on their rhetorical situation, highlighting that there is no single standard for correctness in writing.Īdvice for writing in different contexts, disciplines, and genres. Andrea Lunsford meets students where they are with friendly, approachable advice, and the handbook’s easy-to-use design ensures her expert advice-including her signature Top Twenty editing guide- is always at students’ fingertips.
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