The Bedford Handbook - Softcover

Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031248013X ISBN 13: 9780312480134

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

The Bedford Handbook carries on the Hacker tradition by responding to student writers' needs and to the way students need their handbook to work. Still a full-size handbook that doubles as a reference, the Handbook features clear, straightforward advice, hand-edited sentences, a user-friendly index, and a handy format.

About this title

Book Description:

A new edition of the renowned handbook that provides explanations of proper English grammar, composition, citation, and textual analysis

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, 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. Other Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, include A Writer's Reference, Sixth Edition (2007); Rules for Writers, Sixth Edition (2008); and A Pocket Style Manual, Fifth Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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, USA. 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, Ninth Edition (2010) for Bedford/St. Martin's.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 031248013X
• ISBN 13: 9780312480134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 818