A Writer's Reference

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DIANA HACKER's handbooks, used at almost half of the colleges and universities in the country, are the most widely adopted in America. A member of the English faculty at Prince George's Community College in Maryland for almost 35 years, Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students. Diana Hacker's other handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, include The Bedford Handbook (2006); Rules for Writers (2004); andA Pocket Style Manual (2004).

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
NANCY SOMMERS, Sosland Director of Expository Writing at Harvard University, has also taught composition at Rutgers University and at Monmouth College and has directed the writing program at the University of Oklahoma. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well-known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles "Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers" and "Responding to Student Writing" are two of the most widely read in the field. Her recent work involves a longitudinal study of undergraduate writing. Nancy Sommers is coauthor of Fields of Reading (2007) and tudent Writers at Work: The Bedford Prizes, both published by Bedford/St. Martin's.

TOM JEHN teaches composition and directs the writing across the disciplines program at Harvard University. A recipient of numerous teaching awards both at Harvard and at the University of Virginia, he also leads professional development seminars on writing instruction for public high school teachers through the Calderwood Writing Fellows Project.

JANE ROSENZWEIG, a published author of fiction and non-fiction, teaches composition and directs the writing center at Harvard University. She has also taught writing at Yale University and the University of Iowa.

MARCY CARBAJAL VAN HORN, assistant professor of English and ESL at Santa Fe Community College (FL), teaches composition to native and nonnative speakers of English and teaches the Advanced ESL Writing course. She has also taught university-level academic writing and critical thinking at Instituto Technológico y de Estudios Superiores in Mexico. EDITORIAL ADVISERS:Of the more than 500 experienced composition instructors who reviewed the new edition, a core group served as an editorial advisory board — carefully reviewing all new material in depth, making sure the book would work as well for their students as it always had.
Joanne ADDISON
University of Colorado, Denver Derick BURLESON
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Paige BYAM
Northern Kentucky University Elizabeth CANFIELD
Virginia Commonwealth University Richard CARR
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Michele CHEUNG
University of Southern Maine Jon CULLICK
Northern Kentucky University David ENDICOTT
Tacoma Community College Lin FRASER
Sacramento City College Hank GALMISH
Green River Community College Nancy GISH
University of Southern Maine Jacqueline GRAY
St. Charles Community College Barclay GREEN
Northern Kentucky University Karen GROSSWEINER
University of Alaska, Fairbanks D. J. HENRY
Daytona Beach Community College Kandace KNUDSON
Sacramento City College Tonya KROUSE
Northern Kentucky University Tamara KUZMENKOV
Tacoma Community College Cheryl LAZ
University of Southern Maine Lydia Lynn LEWELLEN
Tacoma Community College Jeanette LONIA
Delaware Technical and Community College Walter LOWE
Green River Community College Michael MACKEY
Community College of Denver Tammy MATA
Tarrant County Community College Holly MCSPADDEN
Missouri Southern State University Liora MORIEL
University of Maryland, College Park Patricia MURPHY
Missouri Southern State University Melissa NICOLAS
University of Louisiana, Lafayette Diane Allen O’HERON
Broome Community College Sarah QUIRK
Waubonsee Community College Ann SMITH
Modesto Junior College Steve THOMAS
Community College of Denver Nick TINGLE
University of California, Santa Barbara Terry Myers ZAWACKI
George Mason University 

  C Composing and revising
    C1 Planning
    C2 Drafting
    C3 Revising
    C4 Writing paragraphs
    C5 Designing documents
    
  *A Academic writing
   *A1 Writing about texts
    A2 Constructing arguments
    A3 Evaluating arguments
   *A4 Writing in the disciplines
    
  S Sentence style
    S1 Parallelism
    S2 Needed words
    S3 Problems with modifiers
    S4 Shifts
    S5 Mixed constructions
    S6 Sentence emphasis
    S7 Sentence variety
    
  W Word choice
    W1 Glossary of usage
    W2 Wordy sentences
    W3 Active verbs
    W4 Appropriate language
    W5 Exact language
    W6 The dictionary and thesaurus
    
  G Grammatical sentences
    G1 Subject-verb agreement
    G2 Other problems with verbs
    G3 Problems with pronouns
    G4 Adjectives and adverbs
    G5 Sentence fragments
    G6 Run-on sentences
    
  E ESL Challenges
    E1 Verbs
    E2 Sentence structure
    E3 Articles and types of nouns
   *E4 Using adjectives
   *E5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions
    
  P Punctuation
    P1 The comma
    P2 Unnecessary commas
    P3 The semicolon
    P4 The colon
    P5 The apostrophe
    P6 Quotation marks
    P7 Other marks
    
  M Mechanics
    M1 Spelling
    M2 The hyphen
    M3 Capitalization
    M4 Abbreviations
    M5 Numbers
    M6 Italics (Underlining)
    
  R Researching
    R1 Conducting Research
    R2 Evaluating sources
    R3 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism
    R4 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
    
  B Basic grammar
    B1 Parts of speech
    B2 Parts of sentences
    B3 Subordinate word groups
    B4 Sentence types
    
   * new to this edition