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The Writer's Reference by Hacker is a must-have guide for students and teachers alike. It breaks down grammar, punctuation, MLA, composition, and more.

C Composing and revising C1 Planning C2 Drafting C3 Revising C4 Writing paragraphs C5 Designing documents *A Academic writing *A1 Writing about texts A2 Constructing arguments A3 Evaluating arguments *A4 Writing in the disciplines S Sentence style S1 Parallelism S2 Needed words S3 Problems with modifiers S4 Shifts S5 Mixed constructions S6 Sentence emphasis S7 Sentence variety W Word choice W1 Glossary of usage W2 Wordy sentences W3 Active verbs W4 Appropriate language W5 Exact language W6 The dictionary and thesaurus G Grammatical sentences G1 Subject-verb agreement G2 Other problems with verbs G3 Problems with pronouns G4 Adjectives and adverbs G5 Sentence fragments G6 Run-on sentences E ESL Challenges E1 Verbs E2 Sentence structure E3 Articles and types of nouns *E4 Using adjectives *E5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions P Punctuation P1 The comma P2 Unnecessary commas P3 The semicolon P4 The colon P5 The apostrophe P6 Quotation marks P7 Other marks M Mechanics M1 Spelling M2 The hyphen M3 Capitalization M4 Abbreviations M5 Numbers M6 Italics (Underlining) R Researching R1 Conducting Research R2 Evaluating sources R3 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism R4 Choosing a style of documentation MLA papers MLA-1 Supporting a thesis MLA-2 Avoiding plagiarism MLA-3 Integrating sources MLA-4 Documenting sources MLA-5 Manuscript format *STUDENT ESSAY APA and CMS papers (coverage parallels MLA's) APA-1 CMS-1 APA-2 CMS-2 APA-3 CMS-3 APA-4 CMS-4 APA-5 CMS-5 *STUDENT ESSAY SAMPLE PAGES B Basic grammar B1 Parts of speech B2 Parts of sentences B3 Subordinate word groups B4 Sentence types * new to this edition