A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker

A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker

"A Pocket Style Manual" provides student writers with the answers to their writing and research questions. With Diana Hacker's trademark straightforward and unpretentious style, "A Pocket Style Manual" is one-third of the price of full-sized handbooks and the book's small size and spiral binding make it as easy to use as it is to carry. It is a reference students can, and will, use on their own. Signature Hacker features help students find the information they need and understand what they find: quick-reference tabs and menus; clean, uncluttered pages; accessible explanations; hand-edited examples; and a user-friendly index.It also offers the ground rules of good writing. In every discipline students need a firm grasp of key skills. A checklist for global revision and practical advice throughout prompts students to review their essays for focus, organization, content, style, and use of sources - universal concerns in all academic writing. It provides discipline-focused advice for research and writing, from thesis to documentation. Students can plan and draft their papers using specific advice for writing and working with sources in humanities and social sciences, with the most up-to-date guidelines for citing sources."A Pocket Style Manual" answers students' writing and research questions. Its concise and straightforward content is flexible enough to suit the needs of students on all courses and its slim format, brief length, and spiral binding make it a portable and practical tool.

"'From a student's perspective, A Pocket Style Manual is the perfect size and works as a handy reference tool for all of their classes' -Christine Trochesset, Department of English, Western Illinois University, USA"

DIANA HACKER personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over 35 years at Prince George's Community College in Maryland, USA, 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.

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ISBN 13	9780312452759
ISBN 10	0312452756
Title	A Pocket Style Manual
Author	Diana Hacker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2008-01-01
Number of pages	272
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