A Writer's Reference

Hacker, Diana

ISBN 10: 0312664761 ISBN 13: 9780312664763

Verlag: BEDFORD BOOKS, 2010

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A Writer’s Reference is the most widely adopted college handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college research — all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or choose from among 4 additional versions with varied content.

• A Writer’s Reference with Exercises is tailor-made for classroom use or for additional grammar practice with 86 integrated exercise sets.
• A Writer’s Reference with Writing in the Disciplines provides help for college writing beyond composition with advice and models in six academic disciplines.
• A Writer’s Reference with Writing about Literature includes an entire tabbed section on interpreting and writing about works of literature, with two annotated student essays.
• A Writer’s Reference with Extra Help for ESL Writers includes an entire tabbed section for nonnative speakers of English; it offers targeted advice and strategies for college writing and research.

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DIANA HACKER's handbooks, used at almost half of the colleges and universities in the country, are the most widely adopted in America. A member of the English faculty at Prince George's Community College in Maryland for almost 35 years, Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students. Diana Hacker's other handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, includeThe Bedford Handbook (2006); Rules for Writers (2004); andA Pocket Style Manual (2004).

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

 

NANCY SOMMERS, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches writing in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well-known for her research and publications on student writing. Her recent work involves a longitudinal study of undergraduate writing. Nancy Sommers is co-author ofFields of Reading, Ninth Edition (2010) for Bedford/St. Martin’s.

TOM JEHN teaches composition and directs the writing across the disciplines program at Harvard University. A recipient of numerous teaching awards both at Harvard and at the University of Virginia, he also leads professional development seminars on writing instruction for public high school teachers through the Calderwood Writing Fellows Project.

JANE ROSENZWEIG, a published author of fiction and non-fiction, teaches composition and directs the writing center at Harvard University. She has also taught writing at Yale University and the University of Iowa.

MARCY CARBAJAL VAN HORN, assistant professor of English and ESL at Santa Fe Community College (FL), teaches composition to native and nonnative speakers of English and teaches the Advanced ESL Writing course. She has also taught university-level academic writing and critical thinking at Instituto Technológico y de Estudios Superiores in Mexico.

 

EDITORIAL ADVISERS:

Of the more than 500 experienced composition instructors who reviewed the new edition, a core group served as an editorial advisory board — carefully reviewing all new material in depth, making sure the book would work as well for their students as it always had.

Joanne ADDISON
University of Colorado, Denver

 

Derick BURLESON
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

 

Paige BYAM
Northern Kentucky University

 

Elizabeth CANFIELD
Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Richard CARR
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

 

Michele CHEUNG
University of Southern Maine

 

Jon CULLICK
Northern Kentucky University

 

David ENDICOTT
Tacoma Community College

 

Lin FRASER
Sacramento City College

 

Hank GALMISH
Green River Community College

 

Nancy GISH
University of Southern Maine

 

Jacqueline GRAY
St. Charles Community College

 

Barclay GREEN
Northern Kentucky University

 

Karen GROSSWEINER
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

 

D. J. HENRY
Daytona Beach Community College

 

Kandace KNUDSON
Sacramento City College

 

Tonya KROUSE
Northern Kentucky University

 

Tamara KUZMENKOV
Tacoma Community College

 

Cheryl LAZ
University of Southern Maine

 

Lydia Lynn LEWELLEN
Tacoma Community College

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BEDFORD BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312664761
• ISBN 13: 9780312664763
• Einband: Spiralbindung
• Anzahl der Seiten: 509
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