DIANA HACKER personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over 35 years at Prince
George's Community College in Maryland, where she was a member of the English faculty. Hacker handbooks, built
on innovation and on a keen understanding of the challenges facing student writers, are the most widely adopted
in America. Other Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, include The Bedford Handbook, Eighth
Edition (2010); Rules for Writers, Sixth Edition (2008); and A Pocket Style Manual, Fifth Edition (2008).
NANCY SOMMERS, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches writing
in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well-known
for her research and publications on student writing. Her recent work involves a longitudinal study of undergraduate
writing. Nancy Sommers is co-author of Fields of Reading, Ninth Edition (2010), and is lead author on Hacker handbooks,
all published by Bedford/St. Martin's.
Summary
A Writer's Reference is the most widely adopted college
handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic
version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider
range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college
research - all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the
ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or
choose from among 4 additional versions with varied content.
A Writer's Reference with Exercises is tailor-made for classroom use or for additional grammar practice with 86 integrated exercise sets.
A Writer's Reference with Writing in the Disciplines provides help for college writing beyond composition with advice and models in six academic disciplines.
A Writer's Reference with Writing about Literature includes an entire tabbed section on interpreting and writing about works of literature, with two annotated student essays.
A Writer's Reference with Extra Help for ESL Writers
includes an entire tabbed section for nonnative speakers of English; it
offers targeted advice and strategies for college writing and research.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Composition/Style
Composing and revising
Planning
Drafting
Revising
Paragraphs
Arguments
Sample Paper
Research writing
Conducting research
Evaluating sources
Managing information
Planning and drafting
Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
Integrating sources
Revising your draft
Effective sentences
Parallelism
Needed words
Problems with modifiers
Shifts
Mixed constructions
Coordination and subordination
Sentence variety
Word choice
Glossary of usage
Wordy sentences
Active verbs
Appropriate language
Exact language
The dictionary and thesaurus
Correctness
Grammatical sentences
Subject-verb agreement
Other problems with verbs
Problems with pronouns
Adjectives and adverbs
Sentence fragments
Run-on sentences
Esl Trouble spots
Articles
Special problems with verbs
Sentence structure
Other trouble spots
Punctuation
The comma
Unnecessary commas
The semicolon
The colon
The apostrophe
Quotation marks
Other marks
Spelling and mechanics
Spelling
The hyphen
Capitalization
Abbreviations
Numbers
Italics (underlining)
Format/Basic Grammar
Document design
Principles of document design
Academic manuscript formats
Business documents
Electronic documents
Mla documentation
In-text citations
List of works cited
Information notes
Manuscript format
Sample Paper: Mla Style
Alternative styles of documentation
Apa style
Sample Paper: Apa Style
Chicago style
Sample Pages: Chicago Style
List of style manuals
Basic grammar
Parts of speech
Parts of sentences
Subordinate word groups
Sentence types
Index
