A Writer's Reference

Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

2017 | 9th ed. 2090
Bedford/Saint Martin's (Verlag)
978-1-319-05744-2 (ISBN)

Infos

For more than 25 years, this bestselling handbook has allowed students to build confidence and take ownership of their college writing experience. Emphasizing critical reading and writing, this how-to manual provides quick-access to the key answers, which helps students target their needs and see their successes.
This is an ideal text for English Composition courses, foundation year modules, or English degree programmes.
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Autor

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 in 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. 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.        

Inhalt

Writing well.- COMPOSING AND REVISING.- ACADEMIC READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING.- SENTENCE STYLE.- WORD CHOICE.- Writing correctly.- GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES.- MULTILINGUAL WRITERS AND ESL TOPICS.- PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS.- BASIC GRAMMAR.- Writing with sources.- RESEARCHING.- MLA Papers.- APA and CMS Papers.- INDEX.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2017
• Zusatzinfo: Approx. 200 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Academic Writing • Critical Reading and Writing • Diana Hacker • Education • Nancy Sommers • Reference • Study and Learning Skills • Study & learning skills: general • Study skills
• ISBN-10: 1-319-05744-6 / 1319057446
• ISBN-13: 978-1-319-05744-2 / 9781319057442
• Zustand: Neuware