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Developmental Exercises for Hacker Handbooks
First Edition©2018 Diana Hacker; Wanda Van Goor
ISBN:9781319146320
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Clarity (effective sentences)
Active verbs: Practice
Active verbs 1
Active verbs 2
Active verbs: Review
Parallelism: Practice
Parallelism 1
Parallelism 2
Parallelism: Review
Needed words: Practice
Needed words 1
Needed words 2
Needed words: Review
Misplaced and dangling modifiers: Practice
Misplaced and dangling modifiers 1
Misplaced and dangling modifiers 2
Misplaced and dangling modifiers: Review
Distracting shifts: Practice
Distracting shifts 1
Distracting shifts 2
Distracting shifts" Review
Emphasis: Practice
Emphasis 1
Emphasis 2
Emphasis: Review
Variety: Practice
Variety
Variety: Review
Review of Clarity (effective sentences)
Clarity (word choice)
Wordy sentences: Practice
Wordy sentences 1
Wordy sentences 2
Wordy sentences: Review
Appropriate language: Practice
Appropriate language 1
Appropriate language 2
Appropriate language: Review
Exact words: Practice
Exact words 1
Exact words 2
Exact words 3
Exact words: Review
Review of Clarity (word choice)
Grammar
Fragments: Practice
Fragments 1
Fragments 2
Fragments: Review
Run-on sentences: Practice
Run-on sentences 1
Run-on sentences 2
Run-on sentences 3
Run-on sentences: Review
Subject-verb agreement: Practice
Subject-verb agreement 1
Subject-verb agreement 2
Subject-verb agreement: Review
Pronoun-antecedent agreement: Practice
Pronoun-antecedent agreement 1
Pronoun-antecedent agreement 2
Pronoun-antecedent agreement: Review
Pronoun reference: Practice
Pronoun reference 1
Pronoun reference 2
Pronoun reference: Review
Pronoun and noun case: Practice
Pronoun and noun case 1
Pronoun and noun case 2
Pronoun and noun case: Review
Who and whom: Practice
Who and whom 1
Who and whom 2
Who and whom: Review
Adjectives and adverbs: Practice
Adjectives and adverbs 1
Adjectives and adverbs 2
Adjectives and adverbs: Review
Verb forms: Practice
Verb forms 1
Verb forms 2
Verb forms: Review
Verb tense and mood: Practice
Verb tense and mood 1
Verb tense and mood 2
Verb tense and mood: Review
Review of Grammar
Multilingual Writers and ESL Topics
Multilingual verb use: Practice
Verb forms 1 (multilingual)
Helping verbs, main verbs, and omitted verbs
Verb forms 2 (multilingual)
Passive verbs
Conditional verbs
Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives 1
Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives 2
Multilingual verb use: Review
Articles: Practice
Articles 1
Articles 2
Articles: Review
Sentence structure, prepositions, and idiomatic expressions: Practice
Omissions and needless repetitions
Present and past participles
Placement of adjectives
Sentence structure, prepositions, and idiomatic expressions: Review
Review of Multilingual Writers and ESL Topics
Punctuation
The comma and unnecessary commas: Practice
The comma 1
The comma 2
The comma 3
Unnecessary commas 1
Unnecessary commas 2
The comma and unnecessary commas: Review
The semicolon: Practice
The semicolon 1
The semicolon 2
The semicolon: Review
The colon: Practice
The colon 1
The colon 2
The colon: Review
The apostrophe: Practice
The apostrophe 1
The apostrophe 2
The apostrophe: Review
Quotation marks: Practice
Quotation marks 1
Quotation marks 2
Quotation marks: Review
End punctuation: Practice
End punctuation
End punctuation: Review
Other punctuation marks: Practice
Other punctuation marks 1
Other punctuation marks 2
Other punctuation marks: Review
Review of Punctuation
Mechanics
Abbreviations, numbers, and italics: Practice
Abbreviations and numbers
Italics (underlining)
Abbreviations, numbers, and italics: Review
Spelling, the hyphen, and capitalization: Practice
Spelling
The hyphen
Capitalization
Spelling, the hyphen, and capitalization: Review
Review of Mechanics
Grammar Basics
Parts of speech: Preview
Nouns and noun/adjectives 1
Nouns and noun/Adjectives 2
Pronouns and pronoun/adjectives
Verbs
Adjectives and adverbs
Prepositions
Prepositions and conjunctions
Parts of speech: Review
Sentence patterns: Preview
Subjects
Direct objects and subject complements
Indirect objects and object complements
Direct objects, indirect objects, and object complements
Sentence patters: Review
Subordinate word groups: Preview
Prepositional phrases
Prepositional and verbal phrases
Verbal phrases
Subordinate clauses
Subordinate word groups: Review
Sentence types: Preview
Sentence types
Sentence types: Review
Answers to Practice and Preview Exercises
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.
Wanda Van Goor
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