A Pocket Style Manual with exercises

Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers (Autoren)

Buch | Spiralbindung

2020 | 9th ed. 2021
Bedford/Saint Martin's (Verlag)
978-1-319-34196-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A Pocket Style Manual with Exercises provides practical advice for any level of college or university writing. Straightforward instruction on grammar, style, and punctuation gives students quick answers to their writing questions. Step-by-step guides and a how-to approach to research writing help students form research questions, integrate sources, and more. Coverage of and numerous citation models for four different styles teach students how to cite by example. This new version includes 50 exercises on grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics.No matter where they are in the writing process--or their college or universitycareers--students will find exactly what they need in this easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate handbook.

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. 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.

Inhalt

Clarity.- 1 Tighten wordy sentences.- 2 Prefer active verbs.- 3 Balance parallel ideas.- 4 Add needed words.- 5 Eliminate distracting shifts.- 6 Untangle mixed constructions.- 7 Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers.- 8 Provide sentence variety.- 9 Find an appropriate voice.- Grammar.- 10 Make subjects and verbs agree.- 11 Be alert to other problems with verbs.- 12 Use pronouns with care.- 13 Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately.- 14 Repair sentence fragments.- 15 Revise run-on sentences.- 16 Consider grammar topics for multilingual writers.- Punctuation.- 17 The comma.- 18 The semicolon and the colon.- 19 The apostrophe.- 20 Quotation marks.- 21 Other punctuation marks.- Mechanics.- 22 Capitalization.- 23 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics.- 24 Hyphenation.- Research.- 25 Posing a research question.- 26 Finding appropriate sources.- 27 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism.- 28 Evaluating sources.- MLA Papers.- 29 Supporting a thesis.- 30 Avoiding plagiarism.- 31 Integrating sources.- 32 Integrating literary quotations.- 33 MLA documentation style.- 34 MLA format; sample research paper.- APA Papers.- 35 Supporting a thesis.- 36 Avoiding plagiarism.- 37 Integrating sources.- 38 APA documentation style.- 39 APA format; sample research paper.- Chicago Papers.- 40 Supporting a thesis.- 41 Avoiding plagiarism.- 42 Integrating sources.- 43 Chicago documentation style.- 44 Chicago format; sample pages.- CSE Papers.- 45 CSE documentation style.- 46 CSE format.- Exercises.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2020
• Zusatzinfo: Approx. 400 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-319-34196-9 / 1319341969
• ISBN-13: 978-1-319-34196-1 / 9781319341961
• Zustand: Neuware