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Teaching with Hacker Handbooks (Online Only)

Second  Edition©2015  Diana Hacker; Marcy Carbaja Van Horn; Jonathan S. Cullick; Sara McCurry

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Topics

T1 Building a foundation for your course

T2 Designing your course and crafting your syllabus

T3 Leading discussions, engaging students in required writing courses

T4 Designing effective assignments

T5 Responding to student writing

T6 Working with multilingual writers (Teaching ESL)

T7 Addressing writing in the disciplines

Part II: Modules

M1 Teaching assignment analysis

M2 Teaching prewriting strategies

M3 Teaching critical reading

M4 Teaching thesis statements

M5 Teaching essay structure

M6 Teaching paragraphs

M7 Teaching introductions and conclusions

M8 Teaching argument and counterargument

M9 Teaching students to conduct research and evaluate sources

M10 Teaching students to integrate sources

M11 Teaching students to avoid plagiarism

M12 Teaching word choice and appropriate language

M13 Teaching grammar and punctuation

M14 Teaching with peer review

M15 Teaching multimodal projects

M16 Addressing writing in the disciplines

Part III: Sample course materials

S1 Sample syllabi

Syllabus 1: The Bedford Handbook, Ninth Edition

Syllabus 2: Rules for Writers, Seventh Edition

Syllabus 3: A Writer’s Reference, Seventh Edition

Syllabus 4: A Pocket Style Manual, Sixth Edition

Syllabus 5: Writer’s Help

S2 Sample assignments

Assignment 1: Workshop on Revising Paragraphs

Assignment 2: Textual Analysis

Assignment 3: Defining and Addressing Plagiarism

Assignment 4: Mechanics Workshop

Assignment 5: Visual Literacy and Analysis

Assignment 6: Essay 4: Writing in Your Discipline

Assignment 7: Reflecting on the writing process

Index

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, Eleventh Edition (2025); A Pocket Style Manual, Tenth Edition (2025); The Bedford Handbook, Twelfth Edition (2023); Rules for Writers, Tenth Edition (2022); and Writer’s Help 2.0, Hacker Version.

Marcy Carbajal Van Horn

Marcy Carbajal Van Horn has served as the ESL specialist for Hacker Handbooks. Formerly of Sante Fe College and St. Edward’s University, she has worked as a composition teacher and as an online writing lab coordinator to help a wide range of students improve their academic writing.

Jonathan S. Cullick

Jonathan S. Cullick is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Northern Kentucky University. He served as Associate Director of the Composition Program at the University of Minnesota for four years and then joined the NKU faculty, serving as Director of the Writing Instruction Program for eight years. He teaches courses in writing studies, frequently incorporating service learning in writing courses, and he also teaches literature courses in the Bible, American literature, and the American South. He is a co-author of Writing in the Disciplines (Bedford/St.Martins) and the author of a number of articles and a book in literary studies. Cullick received his PhD from University of Kentucky with specialization in American literature and writing program administration.

Sara McCurry

Sara McCurry has taught composition at Shasta College in Northern California since 2007. Previously, she taught for three years at the Art Institute of CA-San Diego. She has been teaching online composition courses for many years and appreciates the challenges and opportunities afforded by online education. She has a passionate and long-standing commitment to the success of first-generation and economically disadvantaged college students, a commitment that has shaped her pedagogy and career choices. She is a member of the Shasta College Sustainability Committee and the Shasta College Faculty Association and has served as a club advisor for the Sustainability Club and the N.A.T.I.V.E. Club. Recently, she has presented at the CSU Chico This Way to Sustainability Conference and the English Council of Two Year Colleges yearly conference. She has a PhD in English from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Texas State University.