Writer's Reference with Exercises
Ninth Edition| ©2018 Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
A Hacker handbook has always been a how-to manual for building confidence as a college writer. Diana Hacker conceived A Writer’s Reference as a quick-access innovation in handbook format, and Nancy Sommers continues to reinvent its content for an evolving course emphasizing critical readin...
A Hacker handbook has always been a how-to manual for building confidence as a college writer. Diana Hacker conceived A Writer’s Reference as a quick-access innovation in handbook format, and Nancy Sommers continues to reinvent its content for an evolving course emphasizing critical reading and writing. For more than 25 years, the book has allowed students to build confidence and take ownership of their college writing experience.
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A Hacker handbook has always been a how-to manual for building confidence as a college writer. Diana Hacker conceived A Writer’s Reference as a quick-access innovation in handbook format, and Nancy Sommers continues to reinvent its content for an evolving course emphasizing critical reading and writing. For more than 25 years, the book has allowed students to build confidence and take ownership of their college writing experience.
A Writer’s Reference, Ninth Edition, and LaunchPad for A Writer’s Reference together represent a next-level tool for college writers. What’s most exciting? An emphasis on help that is personal, practical, and digital. A Writer’s Reference is reimagined as a system that helps students target their needs and see their successes; that offers innovative practice with writing, reading, thinking, and research; and that lives in an engaging multimedia environment.
Diagnostics, e-book tools, and custom options allow students and teachers to personalize the handbook. How-to pages, writing guides, student models, and exercises and activities deliver pragmatic, transferable lessons. And with a more interactive e-book, 24 new video tutorials for argument, analysis, research, and citation, and tools that make assigning and assessing a breeze, LaunchPad will be the digital solution that boosts your confidence as well as your students’. A Writer’s Reference, class tested by literally millions of college writers, still offers the right stuff.
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A Writer's Reference is easy to use and easy to understand. The handbook's explanations are brief, accessible, and illustrated by examples, most by student writers. Boxes, charts, checklists, and menus are designed to help users find what they need quickly.
It provides authoritative, trustworthy instruction. Most writing resources on the Web offer information, but they don't offer instruction. With the ninth edition of A Writer's Reference, students have reference content that has been class-tested by students and instructors. Users who loved the new Writing Guides in the eighth edition will be pleased to know they are still here in the ninth.
It provides maximum flexibility for the teaching and learning situation. Instructors can choose from among three versions of A Writer's Reference to meet their students' needs: A Writer's Reference, A Writer's Reference with Exercises, and A Writer's Reference with Writing about Literature. And our robust custom program provides endless opportunities to add original or publisher-supplied content.
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It comes with the unparalleled service and support you have come to expect from Bedford/St. Martin's. We have 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, quick, personal service when you need it, and so much more.
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A new how-to approach offers step-by-step instruction that will help students apply writing advice in practical ways and transfer skills to many different kinds of writing assignments. Fourteen new boxes offer the straightforward help that instructors and students want—how to go beyond a Google search, how to write better peer review comments, and more.
New Writer’s choice boxes on grammar and style offer opportunities for students to practice critical thinking at the sentence level. A new rhetorical approach emphasizes decision making (between first or third person, between active and passive voice, and so on) based on a writer’s purpose and audience. This approach gives instructors flexibility—a way to individualize instruction for students who may need more than a conventional explanation of the rules.
New ways to navigate bring students to key content quickly. Common student questions about writing, written in plain language, appear on each tab and help students find answers to questions such as How do I separate a source’s ideas from my own? and What can I do if my writing is too wordy? Useful chapter previews direct students to specific help within the writing and research chapters.
More help for research writers equips students in composition and across the disciplines with up-to-date citation guidelines—including MLA 2016 and Chicago 2017 guidelines—and formatting help. The ninth edition includes ample instruction in conducting responsible research, the foundation of academic work, and features a new APA-style paper.
LaunchPad: A digital companion that engages in new ways and offers new teaching material. LaunchPad for A Writer’s Reference combines an interactive e-book, engaging tutorial content, and innovative practice and assessment tools in a fully customizable course space. LaunchPad allows you to mix our resources with yours, assign easily, and save yourself time.
- A new e-book, still easy to assign, now has embedded video content and tools that allow students to personalize the handbook (highlighting/note taking)
- New video tutorials for writing and citation help students with difficult academic concepts. 24 new tutorials combine engaging video with scorable practice items to help with argument writing, analytical writing, annotated bibliography, and MLA and APA style.
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing—along with more than 300 additional exercise items and writing prompts—offer plenty of grammar, research, and writing practice, all of which reports to a convenient gradebook.
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Margaret Holloway, University of Alabama"The OWL is free, but its MLA and APA sections are not as user-friendly or as detailed as these sections in A Writer’s Reference."
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Writer's Reference with Exercises
Ninth Edition| ©2018
Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
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Writer's Reference with Exercises
Ninth Edition| 2018
Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
Table of Contents
Writing well
C COMPOSING AND REVISING
C1 Planning
C2 Drafting
C3 Reviewing, revising, and editing
C4 Preparing a portfolio; reflecting on your writing
C5 Writing paragraphs
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
S SENTENCE STYLE
S1 Parallelism
S2 Needed words
S3 Problems with modifiers
S4 Shifts
S5 Mixed constructions
S6 Sentence emphasis
S7 Sentence variety
WORD CHOICE
W1 Glossary of usage
W2 Wordy sentences
W3 Active verbs
W4 Appropriate language
W5 Exact language
Writing correctly
GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES
G1 Subject-verb agreement
G2 Verb forms, tenses, and moods
G3 Pronouns
G4 Adjectives and adverbs
G5 Sentence fragments
G6 Run-on sentences
MULTILINGUAL WRITERS AND ESL TOPICSM1 Verbs
M2 Articles
M3 Sentence structure
M4 Using adjectives
M5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions
M6 Paraphrasing sources effectively
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
BASIC GRAMMAR
B1 Parts of speech
B2 Sentence patterns
B3 Subordinate word groups
B4 Sentence types
Writing with sources
R RESEARCHING
R1 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources
R2 Managing information; taking notes responsibly
R3 Evaluating sources
MLA Papers
MLA-1 Supporting a thesis
MLA-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
MLA-3 Integrating sources
MLA-4 Documenting sources
MLA-5 Manuscript format; sample paper
APA and CMS Papers
(Coverage parallels MLA’s)
APA-1
APA-2
APA-3
APA-4
APA-5
CMS -1
CMS -2
CMS -3
CMS -4
CMS -5
INDEX

Writer's Reference with Exercises
Ninth Edition| 2018
Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
Authors

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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Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
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