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A Pocket Style Manual
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A Pocket Style Manual Spiral - 2008

by Diana Hacker; Contribution by Nancy Sommers; Contribution by Tom Jehn


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Helps students find the information they need and understand what they find with quick-reference tabs and menus; accessible explanations; hand-edited examples; and a user-friendly index. This work also offers the ground rules of good writing. It prompts students to review their essays for focus, organization, content, style, and use of sources.

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  • Title A Pocket Style Manual
  • Author Diana Hacker; Contribution by Nancy Sommers; Contribution by Tom Jehn
  • Binding Spiral
  • Edition 5th
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bedford Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date January 16, 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312452759 / 0312452756
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 4.5 x 0.47 in (21.34 x 11.43 x 1.19 cm)
  • Reading level 1090
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

About the author

DIANA HACKER personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over 35 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. Other Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, include "The Bedford Handbook, " Seventh Edition (2006); "A Writer's Reference, "Sixth Edition (2007); and "A Pocket Style Manual, " Fifth Edition (2008).


ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS NANCY SOMMERS, Sosland Director of Expository Writing at Harvard University, has also taught composition at Rutgers University and at Monmouth College and has directed the writing program at the University of Oklahoma. 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 of "Fields of Reading, " Eighth Edition (2007) 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. JANE ROSENZWEIG 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.

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