A Writer's Reference with Exercises

8th ed. 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4576-8654-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 0 mm x 0 mm

Our best-selling classic tabbed handbook A Writer's Reference, 8e is available in a version that conveniently includes nearly one hundred integrated exercise sets for plenty of practice with the grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics topics offered in the handbook. The answers to some items appear in the back of the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hacker, Diana

Sommers, Nancy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

C Composing and Revising.- A Academic Reading, Writing, and Speaking.- S Sentence Style.- W Word Choice.- G Grammatical Sentences.- M Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges.- P Punctuation and Mechanics.- B Basic Grammar.- R Researching.- MLA Papers.- APA and CMS Papers.

Über Autor(innen)

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. Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches writing and mentors new writing teachers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard's Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard's WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing.