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A Writer's Reference
Ninth EditionNew Edition Available Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers
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No matter what you study in college, you’ll be assigned to write. And chances are, you’ll have questions as you write--questions like "How can I make my thesis stronger?" or "Why is it so important to revise?" or "How can I go beyond Google when I search for sources?"
A Writer’s Reference gives you answers you can trust and practical strategies that will help you as you write papers in English, business, nursing, psychology, sciences, and other courses. Look, we know you’re a smart consumer with choices to make. One of the smartest choices you can make? Investing in a tool you can rely on for the long term.
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Writing well
C COMPOSING AND REVISING
C1 Planning
C2 Drafting
C3 Reviewing, revising, and editing
C4 Preparing a portfolio; reflecting on your writing
C5 Writing paragraphs
A ACADEMIC READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING
A1 Reading and writing critically
A2 Reading and writing about multimodal texts
A3 Reading arguments
A4 Writing arguments
A5 Speaking confidently
A6 Writing in the disciplines
S SENTENCE STYLE
S1 Parallelism
S2 Needed words
S3 Problems with modifiers
S4 Shifts
S5 Mixed constructions
S6 Sentence emphasis
S7 Sentence variety
WORD CHOICE
W1 Glossary of usage
W2 Wordy sentences
W3 Active verbs
W4 Appropriate language
W5 Exact language
Writing correctly
GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES
G1 Subject-verb agreement
G2 Verb forms, tenses, and moods
G3 Pronouns
G4 Adjectives and adverbs
G5 Sentence fragments
G6 Run-on sentences
MULTILINGUAL WRITERS AND ESL TOPICSM1 Verbs
M2 Articles
M3 Sentence structure
M4 Using adjectives
M5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions
M6 Paraphrasing sources effectively
PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS
P1 The comma
P2 Unnecessary commas
P3 The semicolon and the colon
P4 The apostrophe
P5 Quotation marks
P6 Other punctuation marks
P7 Spelling and hyphenation
P8 Capitalization
P9 Abbreviations and numbers
P10 Italics
BASIC GRAMMAR
B1 Parts of speech
B2 Sentence patterns
B3 Subordinate word groups
B4 Sentence types
Writing with sources
R RESEARCHING
R1 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources
R2 Managing information; taking notes responsibly
R3 Evaluating sources
MLA Papers
MLA-1 Supporting a thesis
MLA-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
MLA-3 Integrating sources
MLA-4 Documenting sources
MLA-5 Manuscript format; sample paper
APA and CMS Papers
(Coverage parallels MLA’s)
APA-1
APA-2
APA-3
APA-4
APA-5
CMS -1
CMS -2
CMS -3
CMS -4
CMS -5
INDEX