Everyone's An Author

by Andrea A. Lunsford, Lisa S. Ede, Beverly Moss

An inspiring new rhetoric that takes some of the best ideas animating the field of composition and makes them teachable. Everyone’s an Author focuses on writing as it really is today―with words, images, and sounds, in print and online―and encourages students to see the connections between their everyday writing and academic writing. It covers the genres college students need to learn to write―and teaches them to do so across media. It bridges the gap between Facebook and academic writing, showing how the strategies students use instinctively in social media can inform their academic writing. And it provides a strong rhetorical framework that guides students in the decisions they need to make as authors today.

Genres: Writing, Teaching

729 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 2012

Reviews

[Dru · Rating 5 out of 5]

This started as a book for my English 2 class and it turned into a wonderful piece of literature, rather yet, a compilation of wonderfully written blogs, short stories, and much more.

[Lyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boring but educational!

[Rhonda Browning · Rating 4 out of 5]

Taught from this text in both ENC 1101 and ENC 1102 courses this past semester. Many of it's essays allow for good classroom discussion, and there's fine writing advice throughout. I appreciate how there are chapters devoted to APA and MLA style, complete with many examples.

I'd use it again for class instruction.

[Cierra Wells]

Chapter 29 of Everyone's and Author makes it easier to understand the different styles of writing by comparing it to everyday situations like fashion. It explains the difference between appropriateness and correctness of a topic. Also, this chapter explains how to write or speak more or less intellectually depending on the audience

[perianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

english comp is about the friends we made along the way and at the end of the day... everyone really is an author

[Jill Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Will definitely use in the fall with Comp I students. Loved the inclusion of technology and all of the mentor texts.