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A Student's Companion to Hacker Handbooks

Second Edition| ©2021 Bedford/St. Martin's

Writers develop over time. And the fact is, some writers need more time and more practice to develop the skills and habits that help them meet the challenges of the first-year writing course. For those students enrolled in paired, co-requisite, or ALP sections, A Student’s Companion to Hacker...

Writers develop over time. And the fact is, some writers need more time and more practice to develop the skills and habits that help them meet the challenges of the first-year writing course. For those students enrolled in paired, co-requisite, or ALP sections, A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks offers practical support that will help them get up to speed and perform on-level.

The first half of the workbook offers instruction, opportunities for reflection, and graphic organizers for many kinds of writing. It also includes important college success strategies including time management and planning. The second half offers more than 65 exercises that students can complete right in the workbook—exercises covering a wide range of topics from thesis statements, unity, plagiarism, and paraphrasing to fragments, run-ons, commas, and verb tenses. Substantial coverage of reading strategies—along with a variety of reading activities—help reinforce the link between reading and writing performance at the college level.

Available as a print workbook, as an e-book, or as online content within select Achieve products,  A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks builds skills, promotes good habits, and reinforces the instruction found in all of the Hacker/Sommers handbooks.

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Writers develop over time. And the fact is, some writers need more time and more practice to develop the skills and habits that help them meet the challenges of the first-year writing course. For those students enrolled in paired, co-requisite, or ALP sections, A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks offers practical support that will help them get up to speed and perform on-level.

The first half of the workbook offers instruction, opportunities for reflection, and graphic organizers for many kinds of writing. It also includes important college success strategies including time management and planning. The second half offers more than 65 exercises that students can complete right in the workbook—exercises covering a wide range of topics from thesis statements, unity, plagiarism, and paraphrasing to fragments, run-ons, commas, and verb tenses. Substantial coverage of reading strategies—along with a variety of reading activities—help reinforce the link between reading and writing performance at the college level.

Available as a print workbook, as an e-book, or as online content within select Achieve products,  A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks builds skills, promotes good habits, and reinforces the instruction found in all of the Hacker/Sommers handbooks.

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  • This practical resource pairs advice with practice for the topics students will encounter in their first year writing course.
  • A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks can be paired with any Hacker/Sommers handbook and is included in all Hacker/Sommers Achieve courses.
  • For students who benefit from seeing a visual arrangement of ideas, graphic organizers for paragraphs and essays help students plan and organize different types of college writing.
  • Substantial chapters on reading strategies and reading activities support the link between reading and writing proficiency.
  • 65+ exercises offer practice with writing topics such as thesis statements, topic sentences, paraphrasing, and avoiding plagiarism and with sentence-level topics such as fragments, parallelism, active verbs, and commas.

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Includes even more practice exercises for sentence skills. Every chapter in Part 4 includes three exercises and combines paragraph-style and sentence-style items.

A new smaller, handier size makes the print version of the text even more portable.

A new chapter, “Building Your Confidence,” guides students in reflecting on their strengths and setting goals.

“The chapters in this Student’s Companion support what we stress in ALP classes. Students in ALP sections benefit when the writing process is broken down for them and layered, as in the Companion.”
— Ellen Shur, Middlesex County College

“The graphic organizers are the most exciting part of the book. These will be so useful in a co-requisite lab course. They provide built-in practice with organization, which many students struggle with, but they also allow students some creativity.”
–Jeffrey Miller, St. Charles Community College

“I find that the instruction in reading strategies—close reading and annotation—is needed; the students in the ALP class know how to read but not necessarily how to read like college students.”
–Sarah Gottschall, Prince George’s Community College

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Table of Contents

PART 1 Succeeding in College
1 Becoming a college writer
2 Building your confidence
3 Time management
4 College ethics and personal responsibility
5 College etiquette

PART 2 Succeeding in Your Writing Course
6 Developing active reading strategies
7 Strengthening peer review and collaboration skills
8 Outlining and planning your writing
9 Writing for an audience
10 Graphic organizers for common types of writing
11 Graphic organizers for common types of paragraphs
12 Using sentence guides to develop academic writing skills
13 Integrating sources: Quotation sandwiching (MLA style)
14 Revising paragraphs and essays

PART 3 Practicing Reading, Writing, and Research Skills
15 Reading exercises
16 Thesis statement exercises
17 Topic sentence exercises
18 MLA research exercises
19 Plagiarism exercises
20 Paraphrase and summary exercises

PART 4 Practicing Sentence-Level Skills
21 Active verbs
22 Parallelism
23 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
24 Sentence variety
25 Sentence fragments
26 Run-on sentences
27 Subject-verb agreement
28 Pronoun reference
29 Pronoun and noun case
30 Verbs
31 Articles
32 Commas and unnecessary commas
33 Apostrophes
34 Quotation marks

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In 1981, Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg founded an imprint of St. Martin's Press called Bedford Books and started work on The Bedford Reader. Today, Bedford/St. Martin's is publishing across the disciplines of English, History, Communication, Music, and College Success. Books like A Writer's Reference, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, and A Speaker's Guidebook work because they grow from where disciplines are, where they're going, and what they need.

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