A pocket style manual.
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Other Authors / Creators: | Sommers, Nancy I. |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Sixth edition / |
Imprint: | Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2012] |
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Local Note: | PLTC copy includes customized Wellesley College version (45 p.) |
Summary: | Used by nearly a quarter million students each year, A Pocket Style Manual is a straightforward, inexpensive quick reference, with content flexible enough to suit the needs of writers in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, health professions, business, fine arts, education, and beyond. Its slim format, brief length, and spiral binding make it easy for students to keep A Pocket Style Manual with them for every writing assignment, in any class. With its signature Hacker handbook quick-reference features--hand-edited sentences, color-coded documentation coverage, user-friendly index entries, and a clean, uncluttered design-- A Pocket Style Manual has always provided fast, effective answers to writing and research questions. In the Hacker tradition, new coauthor Nancy Sommers has crafted solutions for the challenges today's college students face. The new edition provides even more help with research writing and supports students in every discipline. Read the preface .<br> |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Physical Description: | viii, 300 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm (spiral bound) |
ISBN: | 9780312542542 0312542542 |
Author Notes: | 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 coauthor of Fields of Reading , Ninth Edition and is lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's. |