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Cover: A Student's Companion to Hacker Handbooks, 2nd Edition by Bedford/St. Martin's
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Sometimes it’s not about perfect. It’s about practice.

A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks will give you the extra advice and practice that will help you succeed in your first-year writing course. Having the chance to practice key skills and habits will boost not only your confidence but also your performance in the writing course and—surprise!—in your other courses, too. The Companion, designed to be used alongside your other course materials, helps you plan and develop essays, improve sentence editing skills, strengthen your reading skills, and manage your time.

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Contents

Table of Contents

PART 1 Succeeding in College
1 Becoming a college writer
2 Building your confidence
3 Time management
4 College ethics and personal responsibility
5 College etiquette

PART 2 Succeeding in Your Writing Course
6 Developing active reading strategies
7 Strengthening peer review and collaboration skills
8 Outlining and planning your writing
9 Writing for an audience
10 Graphic organizers for common types of writing
11 Graphic organizers for common types of paragraphs
12 Using sentence guides to develop academic writing skills
13 Integrating sources: Quotation sandwiching (MLA style)
14 Revising paragraphs and essays

PART 3 Practicing Reading, Writing, and Research Skills
15 Reading exercises
16 Thesis statement exercises
17 Topic sentence exercises
18 MLA research exercises
19 Plagiarism exercises
20 Paraphrase and summary exercises

PART 4 Practicing Sentence-Level Skills
21 Active verbs
22 Parallelism
23 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
24 Sentence variety
25 Sentence fragments
26 Run-on sentences
27 Subject-verb agreement
28 Pronoun reference
29 Pronoun and noun case
30 Verbs
31 Articles
32 Commas and unnecessary commas
33 Apostrophes
34 Quotation marks

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Bedford/St.Martin's

Established in 1981, Bedford/St. Martin’s is the largest college publisher of textbooks for English composition courses. They publish best-selling textbooks like A Writer’s Reference, The St. Martin’s Guide to College Writing, and Patterns for College Writing.


Conquer the Comp Course

Sometimes it’s not about perfect. It’s about practice.

A Student’s Companion to Hacker Handbooks will give you the extra advice and practice that will help you succeed in your first-year writing course. Having the chance to practice key skills and habits will boost not only your confidence but also your performance in the writing course and—surprise!—in your other courses, too. The Companion, designed to be used alongside your other course materials, helps you plan and develop essays, improve sentence editing skills, strengthen your reading skills, and manage your time.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

PART 1 Succeeding in College
1 Becoming a college writer
2 Building your confidence
3 Time management
4 College ethics and personal responsibility
5 College etiquette

PART 2 Succeeding in Your Writing Course
6 Developing active reading strategies
7 Strengthening peer review and collaboration skills
8 Outlining and planning your writing
9 Writing for an audience
10 Graphic organizers for common types of writing
11 Graphic organizers for common types of paragraphs
12 Using sentence guides to develop academic writing skills
13 Integrating sources: Quotation sandwiching (MLA style)
14 Revising paragraphs and essays

PART 3 Practicing Reading, Writing, and Research Skills
15 Reading exercises
16 Thesis statement exercises
17 Topic sentence exercises
18 MLA research exercises
19 Plagiarism exercises
20 Paraphrase and summary exercises

PART 4 Practicing Sentence-Level Skills
21 Active verbs
22 Parallelism
23 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
24 Sentence variety
25 Sentence fragments
26 Run-on sentences
27 Subject-verb agreement
28 Pronoun reference
29 Pronoun and noun case
30 Verbs
31 Articles
32 Commas and unnecessary commas
33 Apostrophes
34 Quotation marks

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Bedford/St.Martin's

Established in 1981, Bedford/St. Martin’s is the largest college publisher of textbooks for English composition courses. They publish best-selling textbooks like A Writer’s Reference, The St. Martin’s Guide to College Writing, and Patterns for College Writing.


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