Overview

For over twelve years, I've served as an in-house development editor at a major New York educational publisher. In that role, I work with authors from the initial planning stages of a book or media project through the final publication. I guide authors toward choices that will allow the published product to meet market needs and win customers' hearts. I edit drafts and suggest revisions until the right book emerges from the manuscript, and when that book eventually ends up in teachers' and students' hands, it's likely to have my marketing copy on the back cover.

Although big-picture thinking is part of my expertise, details still matter to me. My work requires intimate familiarity with guidelines of three major documentation styles (MLA, APA, and CMOS). I can help researchers show off all their hard work in error-free notes and references. If the grammar and style choices absolutely, positively have to be perfect, I know how to make them so.

And educational publishing isn't the only world I know; I have served as an independent contractor for various editorial service providers, writing and editing across a wide range of nonfiction genres. Self-help manuals? I can help. Comics that need more zip, pow, oomph? Done, done, and done. True tales of Bollywood? I'll make them dance and sing. Nonfiction may be my day job, but it's also what I read for fun.

Services

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Non-Fiction

I developed top-selling books and digital tools on writing, rhetoric, and style, from traditional handbooks to two editions of the only comic-book composition text. Working with authors to help translate their vision into student-friendly texts, I had hands-on involvement in every stage of the process, from planning and drafting to editing and revising, from creating design memos and illustration plans to writing marketing copy.

I edit nonfiction content for publishers and others; create ancillary texts, video scripts, and assessments for secondary and higher education markets; and do art research and fact-checking.

The Presence of Others: Voices and Images That Call for Response, 5th Edition

Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz

Presenting widely varying opinions on provocative topics, The Presence of Others invites every student to enter a dialogue with the readings and with accompanying commentaries from the editors, student writers, and experts in other disciplines and fields. Noted scholars Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz -- whose takes on political and academic culture differ markedly -- have selected ... read more

Presenting widely varying opinions on provocative topics, The Presence of Others invites every student to enter a dialogue with the readings and with accompanying commentaries from the editors, student writers, and experts in other disciplines and fields. Noted scholars Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz -- whose takes on political and academic culture differ markedly -- have selected ... read more

The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings 5th Edition (Fifth Ed.) 5e By Donald Mcquade and Robert Atwan 2006

McQuade

Writer's Presence (5th, 06) by McQuade, Donald - Atwan, Robert [Paperback (2006)]

Writer's Presence (5th, 06) by McQuade, Donald - Atwan, Robert [Paperback (2006)]

The St. Martin's Handbook, 7th Edition

Andrea A. Lunsford

Andrea A. Lunsford's latest findings show that today's students write more than ever before -- and make rhetorically appropriate choices in texts they create outside the classroom. “We're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization,” she notes. The St. Martin's Handbook, Seventh Edition is the first handbook to help students build on the sm... read more

Andrea A. Lunsford's latest findings show that today's students write more than ever before -- and make rhetorically appropriate choices in texts they create outside the classroom. “We're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization,” she notes. The St. Martin's Handbook, Seventh Edition is the first handbook to help students build on the sm... read more

The Everyday Writer, 4th Edition

Andrea A. Lunsford

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Students write every day and everywhere -- for school, for work, and for fun. And nobody else in the field of composition understands the real world of student writing better than Andrea A. Lunsford. Her trademark attention to rhetorical choice, language and style, and critical thinking and argument -- based on ye... read more

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Students write every day and everywhere -- for school, for work, and for fun. And nobody else in the field of composition understands the real world of student writing better than Andrea A. Lunsford. Her trademark attention to rhetorical choice, language and style, and critical thinking and argument -- based on ye... read more

The Everyday Writer

Andrea A. Lunsford

Andrea Lunsford’s research shows that students are writing more than ever — in classrooms, workplaces, and social spaces, in local communities and around the world. The Everyday Writer, Fifth Edition, is the first tabbed handbook to help the participants in this "literacy revolution" build on the smart decisions they make as social writers — and use their skills in their academic and professio... read more

Andrea Lunsford’s research shows that students are writing more than ever — in classrooms, workplaces, and social spaces, in local communities and around the world. The Everyday Writer, Fifth Edition, is the first tabbed handbook to help the participants in this "literacy revolution" build on the smart decisions they make as social writers — and use their skills in their academic and professio... read more

Writer's Help 2.0, Lunsford Version (Twelve Month Access)

Andrea A. Lunsford

Writing well is critical to college success. During their years in college, students are asked to write in multiple genres and for a wide range of purposes, audiences, and contexts. They need an easy-to-use resource that can help them find what they’re looking for. Enter Writer’s Help, a powerful online resource with "the simplicity and usability of Google," according to one student user, but ... read more

Writing well is critical to college success. During their years in college, students are asked to write in multiple genres and for a wide range of purposes, audiences, and contexts. They need an easy-to-use resource that can help them find what they’re looking for. Enter Writer’s Help, a powerful online resource with "the simplicity and usability of Google," according to one student user, but ... read more

The St. Martin's Handbook, Eighth Edition

Andrea A. Lunsford

Andrea Lunsford’s comprehensive advice in The St. Martin’s Handbook, Eighth Edition, supports students as they move from informal, social writing to both effective academic writing and to writing that can change the world.Based on Andrea’s groundbreaking research on the literacy revolution, this teachable handbook shows students how to reflect on the writing skills they already have and put th... read more

Andrea Lunsford’s comprehensive advice in The St. Martin’s Handbook, Eighth Edition, supports students as they move from informal, social writing to both effective academic writing and to writing that can change the world.Based on Andrea’s groundbreaking research on the literacy revolution, this teachable handbook shows students how to reflect on the writing skills they already have and put th... read more

EasyWriter

Andrea A. Lunsford

PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319088651). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Andrea Lu... read more

PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319088651). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Andrea Lu... read more

The Everyday Writer

Andrea A. Lunsford

The Everyday Writer with Exercises is the accessible guide students need to improve their writing style and make the right rhetorical choices to ensure it is effective in a variety of situations.

The Everyday Writer with Exercises is the accessible guide students need to improve their writing style and make the right rhetorical choices to ensure it is effective in a variety of situations.

Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing

Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon

This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to draw students in. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing covers what first-year college writers need to know — the writing process, critical analysis, argument, research, revision, and pre... read more

This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to draw students in. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing covers what first-year college writers need to know — the writing process, critical analysis, argument, research, revision, and pre... read more

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century British Literary Biographers

Steven Serafin

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary hist... read more

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary hist... read more

Eat Clean, Eat Safe: Dodging Food Dangers and Learning to Shop for, Prepare and Love Healthful Meals Anytime, Anywhere You Go!

Claudia Del Vecchio, Barry M. Grey

Do you really think the food supply is safe?If you have doubts--and you should--this is the easy, fun guide for helping keep danger away while enjoying a healthy new mealtime philosophy.Did you know that food poisoning can be a contributing factor in many gastrointestinal issues, autoimmune diseases, and chronic illnesses?Whether you’re eating at home, dining out, or catching meals on the road... read more

Do you really think the food supply is safe?If you have doubts--and you should--this is the easy, fun guide for helping keep danger away while enjoying a healthy new mealtime philosophy.Did you know that food poisoning can be a contributing factor in many gastrointestinal issues, autoimmune diseases, and chronic illnesses?Whether you’re eating at home, dining out, or catching meals on the road... read more

New York City Haiku

Readers of The New York Times

One hundred fifty haiku on New York City in just three lines each. New York City Haiku collects 150 of the best haiku inspired by the Big Apple. These succinct three-line poems express not only the personal experiences of every New Yorker (or New Yorker at heart), but also the universal truths about living and loving everything that New York has to offer as well. Written by poets of all ages a... read more

One hundred fifty haiku on New York City in just three lines each. New York City Haiku collects 150 of the best haiku inspired by the Big Apple. These succinct three-line poems express not only the personal experiences of every New Yorker (or New Yorker at heart), but also the universal truths about living and loving everything that New York has to offer as well. Written by poets of all ages a... read more