Rules for Writers with Writing About Literature, 2020 APA Update by Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers - Ninth Edition, 2019 from Macmillan Student Store
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Rules for Writers with Writing About Literature, 2020 APA Update

Ninth Edition ©2019 Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers

Beginning college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds and communities. And for many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. It’s an easy-to-use, comprehensive composition tool with the quality you expect from authors you...
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Rules for Writers with Writing About Literature, 2020 APA Update by Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers - Ninth Edition, 2019 from Macmillan Student Store

Beginning college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds and communities. And for many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. It’s an easy-to-use, comprehensive composition tool with the quality you expect from authors you trust. It empowers students by teaching them how to meet new expectations and by giving them the practice that builds confidence.   With trusted advice for writing well, reading critically, and working with sources, Rules for Writers  now has even more help for underprepared and inexperienced writers—sentence guides that foster an academic voice, tips for spotting fake news and misleading sources, more on paraphrasing, and fifteen new “how-to” pages that offer practical help for writing challenges. It’s an affordable solution with significant value, especially when paired with LaunchPad Solo for Hacker Handbooks, an innovative practice solution available at no additional cost when package with a new text.   With Rules for Writers, you’re giving students more for their money, more ways to succeed, and more support than ever to help them meet the challenges of college writing—no matter what their background.

Features

  • Comprehensive coverage means you and your students have access to sensible, vetted advice and practical models to help students with composing and revising, reading critically, developing arguments and analyses, conducting and integrating research, analyzing literature, and practicing grammar and punctuation skills.
  • Writing guides help students work through college writing assignments in a variety of genres.
    Critical reading and academic writing instruction build skills that transfer assignment-to-assignment and course-to-course.
  • MLA and APA formatting and citation advice help your students work within multiple disciplines.
  • LaunchPad Solo is a powerful platform that makes assigning and assessing student work a snap. At no additional cost when packaged with the print text, LaunchPad Solo includes 300 exercises, more than 35 Learning Curve adaptive quizzes, sample student papers in multiple disciplines, writing prompts, and 24 video tutorials.

New to This Edition

New help designed for beginning academic writers. For students just beginning to write with sources and develop an academic voice, the ninth edition offers stronger, more useful advice

  • New sentence guides help students with the most basic academic scenario: presenting and responding to the views of others. Fill-in sentence starters provide useful models for participating in academic discourse and writing research papers (see 55c).
  • New coverage guides students as they learn how to detect fake and misleading news as they search for sources (see 52c).
  • Four new “Writing for an audience” boxes help students keep their readers in mind as they make decisions about how to develop their ideas (see 50b for one example).
  • Revised advice on paraphrasing and on using sources responsibly develop good academic citizenship among beginning college writers.

A more practical how-to approach. New step-by-step instruction helps students apply writing advice and transfer skills to different kinds of writing assignments. Fifteen new How-to pages deliver the straightforward help that instructors and students want — how to write a stronger thesis, go beyond a Google search, give better peer review comments, and more.
Now even easier to navigate. Based on usability research with students from two- and four-year colleges, new changes make the handbook more accessible: A new How to use this book page orients students to five paths for quick help; a new scavenger hunt offers a useful activity-based introduction to the book; and menus, contents, and lists of citation models are in more accessible locations.
Engaging video tutorials that support common writing assignments. Twenty-four new video tutorials support students as they learn difficult academic concepts. These tools combine brief, lively videos with scorable practice items to help students with common first-year writing assignments (argument, analysis, and annotated bibliography) and with using MLA and APA style.
A new supplemental workbook for students in paired / co-requisite sections. A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks, designed specifically to help under-prepared students succeed in their first year writing course, provides activities and strategies to help students practice the skills and habits they need to be successful academic writers. The text includes coverage of important college success strategies including time management and planning. A variety of activities and templates help students improve their reading and writing performance; graphic organizers help visual learners; exercises for thesis statements and topic sentences help writers with little academic writing experience; and grammar and research exercises help strengthen students work at the sentence level. Available in print workbook format or online within LaunchPad Solo.

 

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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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