A Pocket Style Manual - Softcover

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"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.

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