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Eleventh Edition ©2020New Edition Available Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers

If you haven’t looked at The Bedford Handbook in a while, look again: This edition has everything your students need to become stronger writers—in a briefer book. This reimagined Bedford Handbook takes a fresh “essentials” approach to the familiar coverage of writing, research, style, and g...
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Fresh yet familiar--and more affordable than ever.

If you haven’t looked at The Bedford Handbook in a while, look again: This edition has everything your students need to become stronger writers—in a briefer book. This reimagined Bedford Handbook takes a fresh “essentials” approach to the familiar coverage of writing, research, style, and grammar that The Bedford Handbook has always had. The result is a handbook that’s equal parts approachable and comprehensive. Students will quickly find answers in the book’s direct explanations and step-by-step instruction. They’ll get the practice and guidance they need with exercises, how-to guides, model papers, and class-tested examples. The advice you trust from Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers is here. It all comes in a book that’s easier to carry, easier to use, and more affordable than ever.

Features

  • Essential content for college writing. The eleventh edition includes all of the coverage college writers need—composing and revising, research, MLA and APA documentation and format, grammar and style, writing in the disciplines, multilingual topics, and more.
  • Instruction that’s practical and friendly. How-to pages, writing guides, model student papers, exercises—the stepped-out support and practice your students need—is all here.  What’s more, the author voice is patient, straightforward, and encouraging.
  • Support and service you trust. You can count on our commitment to composition and our commitment to you. We offer training sessions and faculty workshops, free supplements and professional resources, and teaching ideas in our online English Community (macmillan.community.com).

New to This Edition

  • A portable, more affordable handbook. This edition is substantially more concise, focusing on the essential skills and habits students need to be successful college writers. A leaner book and a significantly lower price mean your students are more likely to buy the book and keep it with them as they attend class, visit the writing center, and work on assignments. The high value gets even higher when you choose to use an e-book, create a custom edition, or package the book with one or more supplements.
  • Guidance on working with sources. New sentence guides demonstrate how to present and write about the views of others. Additional features on paraphrasing sources and identifying false and misleading information help students become responsible researchers.
  • Research instruction designed for beginning academic writers. Reorganized and focused help for research writers teaches skills like avoiding plagiarism and integrating sources.
  • Additional navigational aids. New features—chapter previews that direct readers to useful boxes and guides,  a “How to use this book” page, lists of models at the beginning of documentation chapters—point students to the help they need quickly.

“We always return to the Bedford simply because this is an excellent text for our students’ needs. Other books would meet the needs of some students and some instructors, but The Bedford Handbook has always been a comprehensive text that provides accurate, useful guidelines for a variety of writing situations.”

–Megan Fisher, Angelina College

“One of my goals as an instructor of Composition is to get through the material in a quick, productive way and then get the students working through exercises and writing paragraphs/essays as soon as possible. The classroom time seems short over a semester, so why have extra explanation in the text that we tend to skip over anyway? [The Bedford Handbook has] done a great job targeting the essential material that we can cover in the classroom setting.”

–Bill Leach, Florida Institute of Technology

“I have tried to find gaps between the information in this edition and the other handbooks that I have used in the past, but I have come up empty. This edition is very comprehensive and would serve my students well.”

 –Monica Dimauro, Florida State College Jacksonville

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Table of Contents


Part 1 | A Process for Writing
1 Exploring, planning, and drafting
2 Building effective paragraphs
3 Revising, editing, and proofreading
Part 2 | Academic Reading and Writing
4 Reading critically; writing analytically
5 Reading arguments
6 Writing arguments
7 Writing in the disciplines
Part 3 | Clear Sentences
8 Active verbs
9 Parallelism
10 Needed words
11 Mixed constructions
12 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
13 Shifts
14 Emphasis
15 Variety
Part 4 | Word Choice
16 Wordy sentences
17 Appropriate language
18 Exact words
19 Glossary of usage
Part 5 | Grammatical Sentences
20 Sentence fragments
21 Run-on sentences
22 Subject-verb agreement
23 Pronoun-antecedent agreement
24 Pronoun reference
25 Pronoun case (I vs. me)
26 who vs. whom
27 Adjectives and adverbs
28 Standard English verb forms
29 Multilingual topics
Part 6 | Punctuation
30 The comma
31 Unnecessary commas
32 The semicolon and the colon
33 The apostrophe
34 Quotation marks
35 End punctuation
36 Other punctuation marks
Part 7 | Mechanics
37 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics
38 Spelling and the hyphen
39 Capitalization
Part 8 | Grammar Basics
40 Parts of speech
41 Sentence patterns
42 Subordinate word groups
43 Sentence types
Part 9 | Researched Writing
44 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources
45 Managing information; taking notes responsibly
46 Evaluating sources
47 Writing a research paper
48 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
49 Integrating sources
50 Documenting sources in MLA style
51 MLA format; sample research paper
52 Documenting sources in APA style
53 APA format; sample research paper
Answers to Exercises | Index | List of Grammatical Terms

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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