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A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker
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A Writer's Reference

by Diana Hacker

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Not as good as Strunk & White's book, but a good reference, anyway. More up to date on some stuff that I rarely use, like business headers & such. ( )
1 vote jimmaclachlan | Sep 25, 2009 |
Much like The Elements of Style, A Writer's Reference is one of the -- if not the-- penulatimate guide for writers. ( )
  06nwingert | Jun 7, 2009 |
A must have in one edition or another for any academic writer. It covers not only MLA but SPS formats and others. It covers footnotes, end notes, and in-body citation. I have found this very helpful through the years and is the only books I didn't sell back my freshman year of college. ( )
1 vote TheOnlyMe | Jan 25, 2009 |
I don't know how I could have gotten through all those college papers without it. ( )
  VenusofUrbino | Dec 6, 2007 |
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Original publication date1989, 1992 (second edition)
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312450257, Plastic Comb)

Having helped nearly 3 million students at 1600 colleges and universities to write well, A Writer’s Reference succeeds because it has always been grounded in classroom experience. Nearly twenty years ago, Diana Hacker reinvented the college handbook by looking at her own students’ needs. She crafted a first-of-its-kind reference that offered practical solutions to college writing problems in a language students could understand and in a format that was easy for them to use. Her many innovations — hand-edited sentences, grammar checker boxes, student-friendly index entries, ESL coverage, and a lay-flat comb binding — have been widely imitated but never improved upon.

In the Hacker tradition, the new contributing authors — Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig, and Marcy Carbajal Van Horn — have crafted solutions for the writing problems of today’s college students. Together they give us a new edition that provides more help with academic writing and that works better for a wider range of multilingual students.

 
 

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