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Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers (Autoren)

Freischaltcode

2020 | 9th ed. 2020
Bedford/Saint Martin's (Hersteller)
978-1-319-22743-2 (ISBN)

Infos

New 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.

Autor

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 The Bedford Handbook, Ninth Edition (2014); A Writer's Reference, Eighth Edition (2015); Rules for Writers, Eighth Edition (2016); and A Pocket Style Manual, Seventh Edition (2015). Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches writing and mentors new writing teachers at 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. Her recent work involves a longitudinal study of college writing to understand the role writing plays in undergraduate education. 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).

Inhalt

Scavenger Hunt: Learning to use Rules for Writers.- A PROCESS FOR WRITING.- 1 Exploring, planning, and drafting.- 2 Revising, editing, and reflecting.- 3 Building effective paragraphs.- ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING.- 4 Reading and writing critically.- 5 Reading and writing about multimodal texts.- 6 Reading arguments.- 7 Writing arguments.- CLARITY.- 8 Active verbs.- 9 Parallel ideas.- 10 Needed words.- 11 Mixed constructions.- 12 Misplaced and dangling modifiers.- 13 Shifts.- 14 Emphasis.- 15 Variety.- 16 Wordy sentences.- 17 Appropriate language.- 18 Exact words.- GRAMMAR.- 19 Sentence fragments.- 20 Run-on sentences.- 21 Subject-verb agreement (is or are etc.).- 22 Pronoun-antecedent agreement (singular or plural).- 23 Pronoun reference.- 24 Pronoun case (I vs. me etc.).- 25 who and whom.- 26 Adjectives and adverbs.- 27 English verb forms, tenses, and moods.- MULTILINGUAL WRITERS AND ESL TOPICS.- 28 Verbs.- 29 Articles.- 30 Sentence structure.- 31 Prepositions and idioms.- PUNCTUATION.- 32 The comma.- 33 Unnecessary commas.- 34 The semicolon.- 35 The colon.- 36 The apostrophe.- 37 Quotation marks.- 38 End punctuation.- 39 Other punctuation.- marks.- MECHANICS.- 40 Abbreviations.- 41 Numbers.- 42 Italics.- 43 Spelling.- 44 The hyphen.- 45 Capitalization.- GRAMMAR BASICS.- 46 Parts of speech.- 47 Sentence patterns.- 48 Subordinate word groups.- 49 Sentence types.- RESEARCH.- 50 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources.- 51 Managing information; taking notes responsibly.- 52 Evaluating sources.- WRITING PAPERS IN MLA STYLE.- 53 Supporting a thesis.- 54 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism.- 55 Integrating sources.- 56 Documenting sources in MLA style.- 57 MLA format; sample research paper.- WRITING PAPERS IN APA STYLE.- 58 Supporting a thesis.- 59 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism.- 60 Integrating sources.- 61 Documenting sources in APA style.- 62 APA format; sample research paper.- APPENDIXES.- Models of professional writing.- Glossary of usage.- Answers to exercises.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: Approx. 640 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-319-22743-0 / 1319227430
• ISBN-13: 978-1-319-22743-2 / 9781319227432
• Zustand: Neuware