A Writer's Reference
by Diana Hacker
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Author: Diana HackerEdition: Plastic Comb
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-23
ISBN: 0312450257
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Book Review: A Writer's Reference is an extremely useful tool for those wishing to be a success in writing
Summary: 5 Stars
A Writer's Reference, sixth edition, by Diana Hacker, Published by: Bedford/St. Martin's (November 23, 2006)
This book is used in colleges and universities throughout the country, and can be a useful tool throughout one's high school and college education. The book is divided into tabbed sections that provide an easy way to access crucial information to be a successful writer. The material contained within can be used by students or individual writers alike, providing grammatical information, writing styles, and accepted writing formats such as information on how to create MLA, APA, and CMS formatted documents, essays, term papers, and other types of academic writing. The book provides structure, pronunciation, writing styles, word choices, the mechanics of writing, and instructions for successful researching, including how to cite references to avoid inadvertent plagiarism.
Companion websites accompany material in the book and enhance the content, providing exercises to test the reader's comprehension and supply additional information to help each reader to be a successful writer.
This book is a must-have for any writer, whether a student, author, columnist, or hobbyist.
Summary of A Writer's Reference
A Writer?s Reference is the most widely adopted college handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college research ? all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or choose from among 4 additional versions with varied content.
- A Writer?s Reference with Exercises is tailor-made for classroom use or for additional grammar practice with 86 integrated exercise sets.
- A Writer?s Reference with Writing in the Disciplines provides help for college writing beyond composition with advice and models in six academic disciplines.
- A Writer?s Reference with Writing about Literature includes an entire tabbed section on interpreting and writing about works of literature, with two annotated student essays.
- A Writer?s Reference with Extra Help for ESL Writers includes an entire tabbed section for nonnative speakers of English; it offers targeted advice and strategies for college writing and research.
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