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The Bedford Handbook with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates
Eleventh 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).
If you haven’t looked at The Bedford Handbook in a while, look again: This edition has every...
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).
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.
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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).
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.
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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).
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–Bill Leach, Florida Institute of Technology
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The Bedford Handbook with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates
Eleventh Edition| ©2021
Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
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The Bedford Handbook with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates
Eleventh Edition| 2021
Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
Table of Contents
Part 1 | A Process for Writing1 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

The Bedford Handbook with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates
Eleventh Edition| 2021
Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
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The Bedford Handbook with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates
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Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
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Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
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