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A Writer's Reference with 2021 MLA Update

Tenth Edition ©2021 Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

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A Writer's Reference with 2021 MLA Update by Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers - Tenth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

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The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

A Writer’s Reference has offered clear and quick answers to tough questions for millions of college writers. With a groundbreaking tabbed, lay-flat format and a first-of-its-kind directness, it helped a generation of students engage in their own writing and meet the challenges of the composition course. As we celebrate the 10th edition, we invite you to see our latest innovation--our latest answer to the question we have been asking for 35 years: How can we help? We help with superior content developed by experienced authors and shaped by faculty and student advisers. And we help with Achieve, a first-of-its-kind suite of digital tools paired with content you trust.

Achieve with A Writer’s Reference lets you engage students in new ways. They do the work of the composition course in a contained and active writing space: they read, write, reflect, respond to peers, consult the handbook, and make action plans. And instructors use Achieve to design and facilitate writing assignments, peer review, and reflection. The best part? Achieve gives you deeper visibility into students’ writing processes--lets you see “between the drafts.” Insights for each writer and for each class provide actionable information about how your students are responding to expectations, allowing you to see, foster, and measure progress. The 10th edition is an innovation celebration--a continued commitment to college writers and teachers of writing.

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  • Superior content that’s authoritative and trustworthy. With the tenth edition of A Writer’s Reference, students have content written by widely respected authors and class-tested by hundreds of thousands of students and instructors. Users who loved the writing guides and how-to pages in the ninth edition will be pleased to know they are still here in the tenth — as are the engaging writing videos that help with argument, analysis, and annotated bibliography.
  • Covers all the topics for composition. A Writer’s Reference supports students as they compose for different purposes and audiences and in a variety of genres and as they collaborate, revise deeply, conduct research, document sources, format their writing, and edit for clarity. Neither Google nor an OWL can give students the confidence that comes with a coherent reference that covers all the topics they need in a writing course.
  • Easy to use. Edition after edition, users praise the clean and open design that lets students breathe. Students themselves say the book is “not intimidating” and “not overwhelming.” The emphasis on clear, direct advice, examples that teach, and useful navigation means students find solutions to writing problems quickly--and easily understand and apply what they find.
  • Unparalleled service and support. Bedford/St. Martin’s has been in the field of composition with you for more than thirty-five years. We provide professional resources, professional development workshops, training for digital tools, consultation about tailoring your materials, and quick, personal service when you need it.
  • Available in multiple versions to suit your needs. Choose from a classic 12-tabbed reference book, a version with integrated exercises, and a version with help for writing about literature. A custom version is also an appealing option (enrollment minimums apply).

    • New to This Edition

    The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

  • Achieve--a new digital composition space designed for engagement.  Co-designed with composition instructors and students from across the country, Achieve is an exciting, new, and comprehensive set of interconnected teaching and assessment tools. It offers new ways to engage students and to assign and facilitate writing, reflection, and peer review.
    • Writing tools keep writing and revising at the center of your course. Draft Goals focus students, feedback tools help you target problems, reflection prompts increase rhetorical awareness, and the Revision Plan makes feedback actionable.
    • Pre-built assignments make your life easier. Each one can be assigned as-is or customized: analysis, argument, annotated bibliography, narrative, reflection, and research.
    • An interactive e-book version of A Writer’s Reference, built in to Achieve, brings together the resources students need to prepare for class. Students can download the e-book to read offline or to have read aloud to them.
    • Built-in Source Check plagiarism prevention software guides students as they learn to be responsible academic researchers.
    • Diagnostics and individualized study plans give students ownership of their learning process.
    • Powerful trends, insights, and reports for each assignment inform your teaching and feedback and help you visualize and measure students’ progress.
  • Reorganized for academic writers. To make using A Writer’s Reference easier than ever, we’ve clustered all of the material critical to the composition course and essential for the most common assignments up front: coverage of the writing process, critical reading, argument and analysis — and now research and documentation. The first half of the book becomes a robust how-to guide, and the second half of the book functions as a quick reference for style, grammar, and punctuation topics designed for writers with a wide variety of experience with English.
  • More help with paraphrasing and fact checking. The new edition includes stronger help for working with sources. A new how-to guide gives students a writing process for paraphrasing original material, along with a concrete example to follow. New advice for detecting false and misleading sources encourages students to ask critical questions about the news, data, and other information they encounter as part of an academic or everyday writing task.
  • New “Note to self” feature that encourages good writers’ habits. Aligned with the pedagogy of Achieve, the handbook helps students with reflection and revision planning. A new boxed feature models the kind of thinking and planning that successful writers do as they move from assignment to draft or from one draft to another. Both Achieve and the handbook foster the active and personalized learning that research shows leads to greater success rates for a wide variety of students.
  • A more engaging visual approach. For students who respond to information presented visually, we offer new visuals to complement the written instruction in sections that cover working with sources, testing assumptions, writing conclusions, integrating sources, and understanding the rhetorical situation.
  • A new resource for corequisite composition. For students enrolled in paired, corequisite, or ALP sections of composition, A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks offers practical support that will help them get up to speed and perform on-level. The resource, available in print or in Achieve, includes more than 60 exercises for grammar, research, and writing; graphic organizers for many types of essays and paragraphs; substantial support for college reading; numerous reflection activities; outline templates; and more.

    • “A Writer’s Reference is the premier writing handbook--a hallmark for our discipline.”

    --C. Cole Osborne, Guilford Technical Community College

     

    “A Writer’s Reference is the only textbook that every single faculty member agrees on.” 

    --Kristin Redfield, Forsyth Technical Community College

     

    “This book is an invaluable resource, but more than that, it is a critical voice in the larger conversation about the shifting landscape of rhetoric, composition, and the lives of all learners.” 

    --Kathleen Adams, Appalachian State University

     

    “The new visuals make me excited about their potential as teaching tools. The new visual approach will help students stay engaged, retain information, and recall information.”

    --Bridgette Weir, Nashville State Community College

     

    “Students can achieve their own writing growth and their own writing success with the right tool. Achieve is that tool.” 

    --Jennifer Duncan, Georgia State University, Perimeter College

     

    “Achieve presents a new way for students not only to receive feedback but to act on it.” 

    --Joel Wilson, Keiser University and Community College of Allegheny County

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    Table of Contents

    C | Composing and Revising
    C1 Planning
    C2 Drafting 
    C3 Writing paragraphs 
    C4 Reviewing, revising, and editing
    C5 Preparing a portfolio; reflecting on your writing
    A | Academic Reading, Writing, and Speaking
    A1 Reading and writing critically 
    A2 Reading and writing about multimodal texts 
    A3 Reading arguments 
    A4 Writing arguments 
    A5 Speaking confidently 
    A6 Writing in the disciplines 
    R | Researched writing
    R1 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources
    R2 Managing information; taking notes responsibly
    R3 Evaluating sources
    MLA | MLA Style
    MLA-1 Supporting a thesis
    MLA-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
    MLA-3 Integrating sources
    MLA-4 Documenting sources
    MLA-5 Format and sample research essay
    APA CMS | APA Style and CMS Style
    APA-1 Supporting a thesis
    APA-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
    APA-3 Integrating sources
    APA-4 Documenting sources
    APA-5 Format and sample research essay
    CMS-1 Supporting a thesis
    CMS-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
    CMS-3 Integrating sources
    CMS-4 Documenting sources
    CMS-5 Format and sample research essay
    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
    G | Grammatical sentences
    G1 Subject-verb agreement
    G2 Verb form, tenses, and moods
    G3 Pronouns
    G4 Adjectives and adverbs
    G5 Sentence fragments
    G6 Run-on sentences
    M | Multilingual Writers and ESL topics
    M1 Verbs
    M2 Articles
    M3  Sentence structure
    M4 Using adjectives
    M5  Prepositions and idiomatic expressions
    M6 Paraphrasing sources effectively
    P | Punctuation and Mechanics
    P1 The comma
    P2 Unnecessary commas
    P3 The semicolon and the colon
    P4 The apostrophe
    P5 Quotation marks
    P6 Other punctuation marks
    P7 Spelling and hyphenation
    P8 Capitalization
    P9 Abbreviations and numbers
    P10 Italics
    B | Basic Grammar
    B1 Parts of speech
    B2 Sentence patterns
    B3 Subordinate word groups
    B4 Sentence types
    I | Index
    [[only for WAL edition]]
    L | Writing about Literature
    L1 Reading to form an interpretation
    L2 Planning the paper
    L3 Writing the paper
    L4 Observing conventions
    L5 Integrating quotations from the text
    L6 Using secondary sources
    L7 Sample papers

    Diana Hacker

    Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over thirty-five 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. Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, include A Writer’s Reference, Ninth Edition (2018); A Pocket Style Manual, Eighth Edition (2018); The Bedford Handbook, Tenth Edition (2017); Rules for Writers, Eighth Edition (2016); and Writer’s Help 2.0, Hacker Version.

    Nancy Sommers

    Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard’s Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard’s WAC program. 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 and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through blogging and through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and is coauthor of Fields of Reading, Tenth Edition (2013).

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