Authors: Diana Hacker
ISBN-13: 9780312463946, ISBN-10: 0312463944
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Date Published: November 2006
Edition: 6th Edition
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.
A proven success. The best-selling college textbook of any kind. Thoroughly class tested and enthusiastically endorsed by millions of students and their instructors at more than 1300 colleges and universities across the country.
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 |