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A Pocket Style Manual

by Hacker; Sommers

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6th

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9780312542542

ISBN10:

0312542542

Format:

Spiral Bound

Pub. Date:

11/24/2011

Publisher(s):

Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

Used by nearly a quarter million students each year, A Pocket Style Manualis a straightforward, inexpensive quick reference, with content flexible enough to suit the needs of writers in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, health professions, business, fine arts, education, and beyond. Its slim format, brief length, and spiral binding make it easy for students to keep A Pocket Style Manualwith them for every writing assignment, in any class. With its signature Hacker handbook quick-reference featureshand-edited sentences, color-coded documentation coverage, user-friendly index entries, and a clean, uncluttered design A Pocket Style Manualhas always provided fast, effective answers to writing and research questions. In the Hacker tradition, new coauthor Nancy Sommers has crafted solutions for the challenges today's college students face. The new edition provides even more help with research writing and supports students in every discipline.

Clarity

1 Tighten wordy sentences.

2 Prefer active verbs.

3 Balance parallel ideas.

4 Add needed words.

5 Eliminate confusing shifts.

6 Untangle mixed constructions.

7 Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers.

8 Provide sentence variety.

9 Find an appropriate voice.

Grammar

10 Make subjects and verbs agree.

11 Be alert to other problems with verbs.

12 Use pronouns with care.

13 Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately.

14 Repair sentence fragments.

15 Revise run-on sentences.

16 Review grammar concerns for multilingual writers.

Punctuation

17 The comma

18 The semicolon and the colon

19 The apostrophe

20 Quotation marks

21 Other marks

Mechanics

22 Capitalization

23 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics

24 Spelling and the hyphen

Research

25 Posing a research question

26 Finding appropriate sources

27 Evaluating sources
(*new feature on scholarly vs. popular sources)

28 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism
(*new chapter including sample annotated bibliography and chart on avoiding plagiarism)

MLA Papers

29 Supporting a thesis

30 Avoiding plagiarism

31 Integrating nonfiction sources
(*new coverage of synthesis)

32 Integrating literary quotations

33 MLA documentation style
(*new annotated documentation models)

34 MLA manuscript format; sample pages

APA Papers

35 Supporting a thesis

36 Avoiding plagiarism

37 Integrating sources

38 APA documentation style
(*new annotated documentation models)

39 APA manuscript format; sample pages

Chicago Papers

40 Supporting a thesis

41 Avoiding plagiarism

42 Integrating sources

43 Chicago documentation style

44 Chicago manuscript format; sample pages

CSE Papers
(*two new chapters)

45 CSE documentation style

46 CSE manuscript format

Glossaries

47 Glossary of usage

48 Glossary of grammatical terms

Index
Charts and lists for quick reference
Checklist for global revision
Visiting the writing center
Revision symbols