Look Inside Look Inside A Writer's Reference with Writing about Literature by Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers - Tenth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store
VALUE

A Writer's Reference with Writing about Literature

Tenth Edition ©2021 Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers

Writing about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work...

Read more
Students - Buy or Rent

ISBN:9781319333034

ISBN:9781319191900

ISBN:9781319448127

ISBN:9781319453909

Look Inside Look Inside A Writer's Reference with Writing about Literature by Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers - Tenth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

Writing about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays — one that uses only a primary source and one that uses primary and secondary sources.

Features

New to This Edition

Digital Options

EPUB3_EBOOK icon

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn About E-book

Table of Contents

1 Reading to form an interpretation

2 Planning the paper

3 Writing the paper

4 Observing conventions

5 Integrating quotations from the text

6 Using secondary sources

7 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).

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

A Writer's Reference

Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers | Tenth Edition | 2021 | ISBN:9781319169404

Learn More

Teaching with Hacker Handbooks (Online Only) by Diana Hacker; Marcy Carbajal Van Horn; Jonathan S. Cullick; Sara McCurry - Fourth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

Teaching with Hacker Handbooks (Online Only)

Diana Hacker; Marcy Carbajal Van Horn; Jonathan S. Cullick; Sara McCurry | Fourth Edition | 2021 | ISBN:9781319342029

Learn More

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

A Writer's Reference with Writing about Literature, with 2021 MLA Update

Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers | Tenth Edition | 2021 | ISBN:9781319455132

Learn More

Meet Nancy Sommers