Teaching with Hacker Handbooks (Online Only)
Fifth EditionDiana Hacker; Marcy Carbajal Van Horn; Jonathan S. Cullick; Sara McCurry
©2025Table of Contents
Topics
- T1 Planning your course and designing your syllabus
- T2 Engaging students and leading discussions
- T3 Designing effective assignments
- T4 Responding to student writers
- T5 Teaching with generative AI
- T6 Working with multilingual writers (teaching ESL and ELL students)
- T7 Addressing writing in the disciplines
- T8 Using Achieve to increase student engagement
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 suitable language
- M13 Teaching grammar and punctuation
- M14 Teaching with peer review
- M15 Teaching multimodal projects
- M16 Teaching writing in the disciplines
Sample Course Materials
S1 Resource charts
- The Bedford Handbook, 12th Edition (Handbook resource chart)
- Achieve with The Bedford Handbook (Online resource chart)
- A Pocket Style Manual, 10th Edition (Handbook resource chart)
- Achieve with A Pocket Style Manual (Online resource chart)
- A Writer’s Reference, 11th Edition (Handbook resource chart)
- Achieve with A Writer’s Reference (Online resource chart)
- Rules for Writers, 10th Edition (Handbook resource chart)
- Achieve for Writer’s Help - Hacker (Online resource chart)
S2 Sample syllabi
- Syllabus 1: Traditional Composition I with Achieve course (includes handbook) and a Reader
- Syllabus 2: Corequisite Composition I with concurrent access Achieve course (includes handbook) and a Reader
S3 Sample assignments
- Assignment 1: Workshop on Revising Paragraphs
- Assignment 2: Textual Analysis
- Assignment 3: Defining and Addressing Plagiarism
- Assignment 4: Mechanics Workshop: Use of the Comma, Run-on Sentences, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Pronoun Reference
- Assignment 5: Visual Literacy and Analysis
- Assignment 6: Writing in Your Discipline
- Assignment 7: Rhetorical Analysis
S4 Sample rubrics
- Rubric 1: Textual Analysis Assignment
- Rubric 2: Visual Analysis Assignment
- Rubric 3: Multimodal Composition Assignment
- Rubric 4: Literary Analysis Assignment
- Rubric 5: Analysis and Synthesis Essay Assignment
- Rubric 6: Research Essay Assignment