A Writer's Reference

Hacker, University Diana; Sommers, University Nancy

ISBN 10 : 1457666766 ISBN 13 : 9781457666766

Editeur : Bedford/Saint Martin's, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For more than 25 years, A Writers Reference has allowed students to build confidence and take ownership of their college writing experience. The ninth edition is reimagined to help students target their needs and see their successes, offering innovative practice with writing, reading, thinking, and research. Easy to use and easy to understand. The handbooks explanations are brief, accessible, and illustrated by examples, most by student writers. Boxes, charts, checklists, and menus are designed to help users find what they need quickly.Authoritative, trustworthy instruction. Provides students with reference content and instruction that has been class-tested by students and instructors. New to this edition: A new how-to approach. Fourteen new step-by-step boxes offer the straightforward help that instructors and students wanthow to go beyond a Google search, how to write better peer review comments, and more.Writers choice boxes on grammar and style offer opportunities for students to practice critical thinking at the sentence level, and a new rhetorical approach emphasizes decision making based on a writers purpose and audience.More help for research writers in the form of up-to-date citation and formatting guidelines, and ample instruction in conducting responsible research.Useful chapter previews direct students to specific help within the writing and research chapters.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over thirty-five years at Prince Georges 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 in Harvards Graduate School of Education. She led Harvards Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvards WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers and Responding to Student Writing are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bedford/Saint Martin's
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1457666766
• ISBN 13: 9781457666766
• Reliure: Baguettes de reliure plastique
• Nombre de pages: 608