Writer's Reference

Name: Writer's Reference
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ISBN: 9780312450250

ISBN-10: 0312450257

ISBN-13: 9780312450250

Edition: 6th 2006

Authors: Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig

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Having helped nearly 3 million students at 1,600 colleges and universities to write well,A Writer's Referencesucceeds because it has always been grounded in classroom experience. Nearly twenty years ago, Diana Hacker reinvented the college handbook by looking at her own students' needs. She crafted a first-of-its-kind reference that offered practical solutions to college writing problems in a language students could understand and in a format that was easy for them to use. Her many innovations -- hand-edited sentences, grammar checker boxes, student-friendly index entries, ESL coverage, and a lay-flat comb binding -- have been widely imitated but never improved upon. In the Hacker…

Book details

List price: $61.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 8.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English




Composing and revising



Planning



Drafting



Revising



Writing paragraphs



Designing documents



Academic writing



Writing about texts



Constructing arguments



Evaluating arguments



Writing in the disciplines



Sentence style



Parallelism



Needed words



Problems with modifiers



Shifts



Mixed constructions



Sentence emphasis



Sentence variety



Word choice



Glossary of usage



Wordy sentences



Active verbs



Appropriate language



Exact language



The dictionary and thesaurus



Grammatical sentences



Subject-verb agreement



Other problems with verbs



Problems with pronouns



Adjectives and adverbs



Sentence fragments



Run-on sentences



ESL Challenges



Verbs



Sentence structure



Articles and types of nouns



Using adjectives



Prepositions and idiomatic expressions



Punctuation



The comma



Unnecessary commas



The semicolon



The colon



The apostrophe



Quotation marks



Other marks



Mechanics



Spelling



The hyphen



Capitalization



Abbreviations



Numbers



Italics (Underlining)



Researching



Conducting Research



Evaluating sources



Managing information; avoiding plagiarism



Choosing a style of documentation


MLA papers


MLA-1 Supporting a thesis


MLA-2 Avoiding plagiarism


MLA-3 Integrating sources


MLA-4 Documenting sources


MLA-5 Manuscript format


Student Essay


APA and CMS papers (coverage parallels MLA's)


APA-1 CMS-1


APA-2 CMS-2


APA-3 CMS-3


APA-4 CMS-4


APA-5 CMS-5


Student Essay Sample Pages



Basic grammar



Parts of speech



Parts of sentences



Subordinate word groups



Sentence types