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Overview

A Pocket Style Manual offers concise advice for finding and supporting a thesis, evaluating and organizing evidence, integrating print and online sources, and avoiding plagiarism. Material on conducting library and online research helps students track down and evaluate the sources they need. Up-to-date and extensive guidelines for documenting both print and online sources are included for MLA, APA, and Chicago systems.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312452759
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
  • Publication date: 1/14/2008
  • Format: Spiral Bound
  • Edition description: Fifth Edition
  • Edition number: 5
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 4.00 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

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 Rules for Writers, Seventh Edition, A Writer’s Reference, Seventh Edition; and The Bedford Handbook, Eighth Edition.
 
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 coauthor of Fields of Reading, Ninth Edition and is lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's.

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Table of Contents

Clarity 1
1. Tighten wordy sentences 2
2. Prefer active verbs 3
3. Balance parallel ideas 5
4. Add needed words 7
5. Eliminate confusing shifts 8
6. Untangle mixed constructions 10
7. Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers 11
8. Provide some variety 14
9. Find an appropriate voice 16
Grammar 20
10. Make subjects and verbs agree 21
11. Be alert to other problems with verbs 25
12. Use pronouns with care 32
13. Choose adjectives and adverbs with care 40
14. Repair sentence fragments 42
15. Revise run-on sentences 45
16. If English is not your native language, check for common ESL problems 48
Punctuation 56
17. The comma 57
18. The semicolon and the colon 65
19. The apostrophe 69
20. Quotation marks 71
21. Other marks 75
Mechanics 80
22. Capitalization 81
23. Abbreviations, numbers, and italics (underlining) 83
24. Spelling and the hyphen 88
Research Sources 93
25. Finding print and online sources 94
26. Evaluating library and Internet sources 101
MLA Papers 105
27. Supporting a thesis 106
28. Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism 109
29. Integrating nonfiction sources 112
30. Integrating literary quotations 118
31. MLA documentation style 122
32. MLA manuscript format 138
Sample MLA pages 140
APA Papers 142
33. Supporting a thesis 143
34. Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism 144
35. Integrating sources 148
36. APA documentation style 153
37. APA manuscript format 161
Sample APA pages 165
Chicago-Style Papers 168
38. Supporting a thesis 169
39. Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism 170
40. Integrating sources 174
41. Chicago documentation style 178
42. Chicago manuscript format 189
Sample Chicago pages 191
Glossaries 195
43. Glossary of usage 196
44. Glossary of grammatical terms 206
A List of Style Manuals 214
A Writer's Online Resources 217
Index 220
Checklist for Global Revisions
Revision Symbols
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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 26, 2007

    Use it!

    Dear man-da-sand, as you see, the reviewer said that the teachers were using it. He, unfortunately, did not get to use this wonderful resource. :) I personally used it in an ESL class that I was teaching. Although the kids fretted at the time, a year later they were thrilled when they scored well above their peers on their writing/essay reviews.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2007

    How useful?

    If this handbook is so useful, why did the previous reviewer misplace a comma and insert an unnecessary apostrophe? Handbooks should be EFFECTIVE as well as 'handy' if they are to be considered worthwhile.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 17, 2005

    A wonderful resource

    This book is so useful that at my school, it is required. The teacher's use it all the time.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 17, 2005

    A Great Resource

    I found this book to be extremely helpful. It answered just about any reference question I had. It is one of the best guides to writing citations.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 28, 2003

    You Cannot Fail

    ...to benefit from the use of this book! I was introduced to Ms. Hacker's book in college which, I am convinced, helped me achieve excellent term papers and projects. I keep her latest edition in my personal library. It is worth every nickle you have to spend and every moment you have to wait for it.

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