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Pocket Style Manual: Updated With Mla's 1999 Guidelines Author: Diana Hacker |
Pocket Style Manual: Updated With Mla's 1999 Guidelines |
Editorial Review:
The first of its kind, A Pocket Style Manual continues to help student writers get answers to their writing and research questions. Its concise and straightforward content is flexible enough to suit the needs of writers in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, health professions, business courses, fine arts, teacher training courses, and beyond. Its slim format, brief length, and spiral binding make it a portable and practical tool. With its signature Diana Hacker quick-reference features, A Pocket Style Manual has always provided quick solutions to writing problems. Supplemented by the best free and open Web resources, A Pocket Style Manual offers the best value for students.
In the Hacker tradition, the new contributing authors -- Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig, and Marcy Carbajal Van Horn -- have crafted solutions for the challenges today's college students face. Together they give us a new edition that provides more help with research writing and one that works better for a wider range of students.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Excellent APA GUIDE.: 
If you are in college working on a paper that requires you to utilize the APA style, this booklet is a life saver.
Straightforward Guide; Expanded Fifth Edition: 
A Pocket Style Manual covers five sections on writing: clarity, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and--the most important of all--citations. Straightforward and clear, this manual offers no frills, just the basics to writing research papers.
The new fifth edition teaches how to cite new sources (podcasts, Wikipedia, blogs, MP3s, etc.) and even where to find citation information. It also includes more diverse research paper examples (including nursing and business) and offers more help to ESL...more info
Pointless: 
I had to buy this book for a class, and it is pointless. All the information can be found for free online, so it is pretty much a waste of $20.
Great Tool for Your Writing:
I am excited to use the MLA tools in this pocket guide for writing my college papers. There is so much in this little book, and was worth ever cent of my purchase. There are lots of little things that students forget like noun/verb agreement, and possession. It is very helpful, and every student should have this!
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