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. Unique coverage of language and style-with practice.
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. He lives in Orange, California.Friendly, trustworthy, and easy. The son of a career Navy officer and an anthropologist mother, he grew up in Washington, D.C., Florida, California and Italy attended middle school and art school in Italy received degrees in English and writing from Claremont McKenna College and the University of California at Irvine has three wonderful grown children (Annie, Ben and Liz) and is married to choreographer Amelie Hunter. His interests include cultural anthropology, creativity theory, storytelling, popular culture and popular fiction, Early Man archeology, advertising and the media, science and multicultural education, theory and methodology in the social and natural sciences, the Vietnam War, U.S.
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At a private university in southern California, where he taught writing for twenty-four years, he helped establish and direct the Creative Writing Program, directed both the Professional Writing Track of that program and its Communications Internship program, received various teaching and service awards, and was Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing. In 2017 actor LeVar Burton ( Star Trek, Reading Rainbow) chose a story of Bruce’s to launch his new podcast, with an interview shortly after that and that same year the BBC did a story on another project from Bruce’s formative years as a writer.īruce has been a writing coach and consultant on a wide range of popular books for major and smaller publishers and scientific books published by scholarly presses, including Pulitzer and National Book Award nominees and a facilitator of autobiography and memoir workshops. In 2011 the Paris Review did a story on a symbolism questionnaire Bruce sent to 150 famous writers in high school, and the story went viral on social media and continues to periodically.
His poetry and experimental work have appeared in literary quarterlies and anthologies he has co-edited magazines and anthologies and his articles on popular science, writing craft and sports have appeared in publications like Life, International Wildlife, The Writer and newspapers across the country. and foreign magazines and journals, and reference works for major publishers and literary presses. His fiction has been translated widely and received national awards and notable mentions in the New York Times, other U.S. His most recent novel, the autobiographical The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic, was a Cibils and Locus nominee. His second novel, Dream Baby, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship winner, was called a "stunning tour de force" by Publishers Weekly. As a writing coach, he specializes in all kinds of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screenplays.īruce's literary and genre fiction has appeared in national magazines, literary quarterlies, college textbooks and 'year's best' anthologies. Bruce McAllister is an award-winning West-Coast-based writing coach, writer in a wide range of genres, consultant in the fields of publishing and Hollywood, workshop leader and an "agent finder" for both new and established writers.
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