Directory of Storyboard Art
Rhetorical Situations: Choose Your Topic 50
Rhetorical Situations: Consider Your Purpose and Stance 51
Rhetorical Situations: Imagine Your Audience 53
Working Thesis: Plan Your Approach 66
Working Thesis: Refine Your Topic 67
Working Thesis: Craft Your Message 68
Peer Review: Work with a Writer 108
Peer Review: Work with Reviewers 110
Revision: Read All Comments Carefully 113
Revision: Plan Your Next Draft 114
Editing: Polish Your Draft 117
Critical Reading: Preview 130
Critical Reading: Read Carefully 132
Critical Reading: Summarize 135
Critical Reading: Analyze 137
Synthesis: Finding Patterns 216
Synthesis: Combining Ideas 217
Directory of Student Writing
Twitter posts: Parker 13
Facebook post: Michalski 13
Oral presentation excerpts: Song,“Residents of a DysFUNctional HOME” 26–35
Poster: Rao 39
Flyer: Mumford 40
Event promotion: Swirsky 42
Final draft: Lesk, “Red, White, and Everywhere” 58
Portfolio cover letter: Kung 124
Critical reading: Song, “Residents of a DysFUNctional HOME” 140
Rhetorical analysis: Ateyea, “A Curse and a Blessing” 157
Argument essay: Pfeifer, “Devastating Beauty” 178
MLA-style research essay: Craig, “Texting and Messaging: The Language of Youth Literacy” 501
APA-style literature review: Redding, “Mood Music: Music Preference and the Risk for Depression and Suicide in Adolescents” 541
Chicago-style research essay: Rinder,“Sweet Home Chicago: Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future of the Windy City” 569
CSE-style research essay: Gupta, “Field Measurements of Photosynthesis and Transpiration Rates in Dwarf Snapdragon” 586
Close reading of poetry: Sillay, “Life’s Not a Paragraph” 633
Psychology research essay: McLaughlin, “Leadership Roles in a Small-Group Project” 642
Chemistry lab report: Goldberg 650
Memo: Abbott and Abernathy 656
Letter of application: Lopez 658
Print résumé: Tyler 662
Scannable résumé: Tyler 663
Go to bedfordstmartins.com/everydaywriter > Student Writing for model essays, drafts, research projects, annotated bibliographies, presentations, and work created for disciplines other than English.
For Multilingual Writers
CHAPTERS OF ADVICE
Chapter 56: Writing in U.S. Academic Genres 593
Chapter 57: Clauses and Sentences 596
Chapter 58: Nouns and Noun Phrases 602
Chapter 59: Verbs and Verb Phrases 609
Chapter 60: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 617
BOXED TIPS
Speaking Up in Class 25
Bringing In Other Languages 54
Using Your Native Language to Explore Ideas 62
Stating a Thesis Explicitly 69
Being Explicit 79
Reading Patterns 98
Asking an Experienced Writer to Review Your Draft 105
Understanding Peer Review 107
Counting Your Own Experience 166
Identifying Sources 223
Plagiarism as a Cultural Concept 232
Asking Experienced Writers to Review a Thesis 235
Global Varieties of English 258
Avoiding Fancy Language 264
Learning Idioms 268
Recognizing American Spellings 271
Shifting Tenses in Reported Speech 306
Using Count and Noncount Nouns 321
Deciding When Articles Are Necessary 324
Using Modal Auxiliaries 342
Using the Subjunctive 354
Using Adjectives with Plural Nouns 375
Determining Adjective Sequence 377
Judging Sentence Length 388
Quoting in American English 427
Learning English Capitalization 440
Using the Term Hundred 447
IF YOU SPEAK…
Arabic 254, 440
British English 240, 271, 427
Chinese 248, 440, 613
Dutch 440
French 427
German 427, 440
Hebrew 440
Hindi 440
Indian English 259, 271
Japanese 247
Russian 375
Spanish 253, 259, 375, 617
Tagalog 246
Vietnamese 613
Considering Disabilities
Accessible Web Texts 23
Accessible Presentations 27
Your Whole Audience 55
Freespeaking 60
Color for Contrast 97
Knowing Your Readers 255
Spelling 273
Talking the Talk
Conventions 14
Assignments 52
Paragraph Length 80
Revision 115
Critical Thinking 131
Visual Texts 137
Arguments 162
Reaching an Audience 188
Wikis as Sources 196
Research with an Open Mind 208
Saying Something New 230
Texting Abbreviations 262
Spell Checkers and Wrong-Word Errors 270
Grammatical Terms 319
Correctness or Stuffiness? 366
The First Person 627