Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, joined the Stanford faculty in March, 2000. Prior to this appointment, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000), where she served as Vice Chair of the Department of English, as Chair of the University Writing Board, and as Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing. She has also been Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86). Currently a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Professor Lunsford earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida, and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977).
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Videos
 Everything's An Argument
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 Plagiarism in the Remix Culture
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 Write Yourself or Be Written
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 Writer's Block
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 Writing Beyond the English Classroom
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Research and articles
Learn more about The Stanford Study of Writing.
Read artricles about Andrea's thoughts on literacy from the August 2009 edition of Wired and her views on spell-check and texting in posts on The New Yorker Book Blog from September 2009.
Find out more about Andrea's research on common errors in student writing:
The Top Twenty (2009) shows the results of the nationwide study of student writing conducted by Andrea Lunsford and Karen Lunsford.
Read "Mistakes Are a Fact of Life" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Karen J. Lunsford, the article about the nationwide study updating the original Lunsford and Connors 1986 study.
The Twenty Most Common Errors (1986) is the original list of errors from the groundbreaking study by Robert Connors and Andrea Lunsford.
"The Figure of the Student in Composition Textbooks" by Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donohue talks about how student writing is used in Lunsford handbooks. This article originally appeared in Teaching with Student Texts, edited by Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, and Charles Paine (Utah State University Press, 2010).
News
Andrea posts twice a week on the BITs blog. Visit the blog.
Listen to a Webinar with Andrea Lunsford discussing the Literacy Revolution
More Lunsford books from
Bedford/St. Martin's
Readers and Rhetorics
Professional Resources
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