The Bedford Handbook

1069 Pages·059.437 MB·English

by  Hacker. Diana & Nancy Sommers

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Brief Menu
PREFACE FOR INSTRUCTORS
INTRODUCTION: WHY GOOD HABITS MATTER
PART I  The Writing Process
1 Exploring, planning, and drafting
2 Revising, editing, and reflecting
3 Building effective paragraphs
PART II  Academic Reading and Writing
4 Reading and writing critically
5 Reading and writing about multimodal texts
6 Reading and writing arguments
7 Reading and writing about literature
PART III  Clear Sentences
8 Active verbs
9 Parallelism
10 Needed words
11 Mixed constructions
12 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
13 Shifts
14 Emphasis
15 Variety
PART IV Word Choice
16 Wordy sentences
17 Appropriate language
18 Exact words
PART V Grammatical Sentences
19 Sentence fragments
20 Run-on sentences
21 Subject-verb agreement (is or are etc.)
22 Pronoun-antecedent agreement (singular or plural)
23 Pronoun reference (clarity)
24 Pronoun case (I or me etc.)
25 who or whom
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26 Adjectives and adverbs (good or well etc.)
27 Standard English verb forms
PART VI Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges
28 Verbs
29 Articles (a, an, the)
30 Sentence structure
31 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions
PART VII Punctuation
32 The comma
33 Unnecessary commas
34 The semicolon
35 The colon
36 The apostrophe
37 Quotation marks
38 End punctuation
39 Other punctuation marks
PART VIII  Mechanics
40 Abbreviations
41 Numbers
42 Italics
43 Spelling
44 The hyphen
45 Capitalization
PART IX  Grammar Basics
46 Parts of speech
47 Sentence patterns
48 Subordinate word groups
49 Sentence types
PART X  Researched Writing
50 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources
51 Managing information; taking notes responsibly
52 Evaluating sources
WRITING MLA PAPERS
53 Supporting a thesis
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54 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
55 Integrating sources
56 MLA documentation style
▸ MLA DIRECTORY: WORKS CITED MODELS
57 MLA manuscript format; sample research paper
WRITING APA PAPERS
58 Supporting a thesis
59 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism
60 Integrating sources
61 APA documentation style
▸ APA DIRECTORY: REFERENCE LIST MODELS
62 APA manuscript format; sample research paper
WRITING CHICAGO PAPERS
63 Chicago papers
▸ CHICAGO DIRECTORY: NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY MODELS
PART XI  Writing in the Disciplines
64 Learning to write in a discipline
65 Approaching writing assignments in the disciplines
APPENDIX: A DOCUMENT DESIGN GALLERY
GLOSSARY OF USAGE
ANSWERS TO EXERCISES
INDEX
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tenth edition
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The Bedford Handbook
Diana Hacker
Nancy Sommers
Harvard University
Boston | New York
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For Bedford/St. Martin’s
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