A Student's Companion to Lunsford Handbooks

A Student's Companion to Lunsford Handbooks helps writers make the most of their handbook and the most of their composition course. Its practical workbook format and attention to key topics taught in the course make it a useful tool for boosting student performance. Part 1 covers the transition from high school writing to college writing and includes common college success strategies such as time management. Part 2 covers topics common to first-year composition courses: essay and paragraph development, active reading, audience awareness, peer review, revision, and working with sources. Substantial coverage of reading strategies, paired with activities, reinforces the link between reading and writing proficiency. Part 3 includes exercises in rhetorical and research skills such as using topic sentences, avoiding plagiarism, and reading critically. Part 4 includes exercises in sentence-level topics including parallelism, subject-verb agreement, fragments, using commas and quotation marks, and more. Offering 67 exercises and dozens of activities to engage students in the work of the course, A Student's Companion to Lunsford Handbooks helps new academic writers get and stay on-level.