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What habits are common among good college writers? Good college writers are curious, engaged, reflective, and responsible. They read critically. They write with purpose. They tune into their audience. They collaborate and seek feedback. They know credible evidence makes them credible researchers. They revise. The Bedford Handbook, based on surveys with more than 1,000 first-year college students, fosters these habits and offers more support than ever before for college reading and writing. New writing guides support students as they compose in an ever-wider variety of genres, including multimodal genres. New reading support encourages students to become active readers. Retooled research advice emphasizes inquiry and helps writers cite even the trickiest digital sources confidently and responsibly. Best of all, the Handbook remains a trusted companion for students because it is accessible, comprehensive, and authoritative. Instructors benefit, too: A substantially revised Instructor’s Edition includes Nancy Sommers’s personal mentoring—more than 100 new concrete tips for teaching with the handbook. Finally, integrated digital content is easily assignable and helps students practice and apply the handbook’s lessons.

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PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT,

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What habits are common among good college writers? Good college writers are curious, engaged, reflective, and responsible. They read critically. They write with purpose. They tune into their audience. They collaborate and seek feedback. They know credible evidence makes them credible researchers. They revise. The Bedford Handbook, based on surveys with more than 1,000 first-year college students, fosters these habits and offers more support than ever before for college reading and writing. New writing guides support students as they compose in an ever-wider variety of genres, including multimodal genres. New reading support encourages students to become active readers. Retooled research advice emphasizes inquiry and helps writers cite even the trickiest digital sources confidently and responsibly. Best of all, the Handbook remains a trusted companion for students because it is accessible, comprehensive, and authoritative. Instructors benefit, too: A substantially revised Instructor’s Edition includes Nancy Sommers’s personal mentoring—more than 100 new concrete tips for teaching with the handbook. Finally, integrated digital content is easily assignable and helps students practice and apply the handbook’s lessons.

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Comprehensive and coherent. Popular search engines can’t give students the confidence that comes with a coherent reference that covers all the writing, research, and editing topics they need in any course in which writing is assigned.

Easy to use, easy to understand. The handbook’s explanations are brief, accessible, and illustrated by examples, most by student writers. Its many boxes, charts, checklists, and menus are designed to help users find what they need quickly.

Affordable. The Bedford Handbook is the most reasonably priced comprehensive handbook on the market. And when students hang on to their handbook for the writing they’ll do in other college courses, the price is divided by four or eight semesters, and the value is even higher.

Proven. Writing-related resources on the Web offer information, but they don’t offer instruction. WithThe Bedford Handbook, students have trusted writing instruction that has been class-tested by hundreds of thousands of students and instructors.

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A new framework for developing habits of mind. Becoming a college writer, a new feature of the ninth edition, takes students beyond what they need to know and emphasizes how they need to think. The new student introduction and corresponding interior pages emphasize ways in which students can develop the academic habits that will foster their success as college writers: curiosity, engagement, reflection, and responsibility. These pages offer insights from peer college writers, advice from author and writing expert Nancy Sommers, a prompt that helps students draw on earlier experiences with writing, and cross-references to practical help in their handbook.

Print and media work together to make the content more useful, more engaging. Print pages teach the handbook’s lessons with advice and examples; e-Pages provide opportunities for students to practice, apply, and reflect on the lessons. The e-Pages, online at [[URL]], include 200 practice exercises and 36 writing prompts that strengthen student’s editing, build rhetorical skills, and report to a gradebook. The e-Pages also include LearningCurve, which offers game-like, adaptive quizzing for many handbook topics. The two types of content—print and media—work together to help students strengthen writing skills and behaviors. And easy-to-spot cross-references direct students from the print pages to the e-Pages and back.

New writing guides help students get even more out of their handbook. Five new guides support students as they compose both common and new college assignments: argument, analysis, annotated bibliography, reflection, and literacy narrative. The guides help students understand the expectations of the genre and provide a path as they explore, draft, and revise.

Strategies for reading critically and reflectively. Users asked us to help students to become stronger college readers in order to read a wider range of texts—traditional and multimodal selections, research sources, their own drafts, and the work of their peers. A completely revised Part II, Academic Reading and Writing, emphasizes active reading as the foundation of every college research and writing assignment.

A new approach to research that takes students beyond reporting. Substantially revised advice, examples, and illustrations help students engage in the research process, find entry points in debates, and develop their authority as researchers. The emphasis is on helping beginning college researchers transition from reporting the research of others to contributing to a conversation among researchers.

A process approach to documentation—with more models than ever. Practical how-to boxes and revised citation at a glance pages encourage students to ask questions and take steps to gather the information needed to cite even the trickiest sources responsibly. More than 300 models in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles—arranged for quick access—cover a wide range of sources and formats.

"I encourage the use of The Bedford Handbook as a ‘go to’ resource for every step of the writing process and for every writing experience a student is facing, even beyond the English classroom."

—Marsha Cline, Central New Mexico Community College

"Having integrated print and digital content will engage students."

—Regina Dilgen, Palm Beach State College

"There is useful material in the handbook for all my courses, not just English. I’m a psychology major, and we use APA style, so I do expect to use the book throughout college."

—Jacquethia Robinson, Student, Georgia Gwinnet College
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LC = LearningCurve
 
Preface for Instructors 
Introduction: Becoming a College Writer 
Part I The Writing Process 
1  Exploring, planning, and drafting [e-Pages]     
Becoming a college writer: Choose topics you care about 
       a  Assessing the writing situation 
       b  Exploring your subject 
       c  Drafting and revising a working thesis  
       d  Drafting a plan 
       e  Drafting an introduction 
       f  Drafting the body 
       g  Drafting a conclusion 
       h  Managing your files   
2  Revising, editing, and reflecting [e-Pages]     
Becoming a college writer: Form a community of readers around you  
       a  Revising with comments  
       b  Approaching global revision in cycles  
       c  Revising and editing sentences; proofreading a final draft 
       d  Student writing: Literacy narrative  
            Writing guide: Literacy narrative 
       e  Preparing a portfolio; reflecting on your writing  
            Writing guide: Reflective opening statement for a portfolio 
3 Building effective paragraphs [e-Pages]     
       a  Focusing on a main point 
       b  Developing the main point 
       c  Choosing a suitable pattern of organization 
       d  Making paragraphs coherent 
       e  Adjusting paragraph length 
Part II  Academic Reading and Writing 
4  Reading and writing critically [e-Pages]
     
Becoming a college writer: Engage with the texts you read  
       a  Reading actively 
       b  Outlining a text to identify main ideas 
       c  Summarizing to deepen your understanding 
       d  Analyzing to demonstrate your critical reading 
       e  Sample student essay: Analysis of an article 
           Writing Guide: Analyzing a written text  
5  Reading and writing about images and multimodal texts [e-Pages]      
       a  Reading actively 
       b  Outlining to identify main ideas 
       c  Summarizing to deepen your understanding 
       d  Analyzing to demonstrate your critical reading  
       e  Sample student essay: Analysis of an advertisement 
6  Reading and writing arguments [e-Pages]     
Becoming a college writer
       a  Distinguishing between reasonable and fallacious argumentative tactics 
       b  Distinguishing between legitimate and unfair emotional appeals   
       c  Judging how fairly a writer handles opposing views 
       d  Identifying your purpose and context  
       e  Viewing your audience as a panel of jurors 
       f  Establishing credibility and stating your position 
       g  Backing up your thesis with persuasive lines of argument 
       h  Supporting your claims with specific evidence  
       i  Anticipating objections; countering opposing arguments  
       j  Building common ground 
       k  Sample argument paper 
           Writing Guide: Constructing an argument  
7  Reading and writing about literature [e-Pages]     
       a  Reading actively 
       b  Forming an interpretation 
       c  Drafting a working thesis 
       d  Using evidence from the text; avoiding plot summary 
       e  Observing the conventions of literature papers   
       f  Integrating quotations from the text 
       g  Documenting secondary sources and avoiding plagiarism 
       h  Sample student essays 
           ANALYSIS with a primary source and secondary sources  
Part III Clear Sentences  
8 Prefer active verbs. [e-Pages, LC]

       a  Active versus passive verbs  
       b  Active versus be verbs  
       c  Subject that names the actor  
9 Balance parallel ideas. [e-Pages, LC]
       a  Parallel ideas in a series  
       b  Parallel ideas presented as pairs  
       c  Repetition of function words  
10 Add needed words.     
       a  In compound structures  
       b  that  
       c  In comparisons  
       d  a, an, and the  
11 Untangle mixed constructions.    
       a  Mixed grammar  
       b  Illogical connections  
       c  is when, is where, and reason . . . is because  
12 Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers. [e-Pages]    
       a  Limiting modifiers  
       b  Misplaced phrases and clauses  
       c  Awkwardly placed modifiers  
       d  Split infinitives  
       e  Dangling modifiers  
13 Eliminate distracting shifts. [e-Pages, LC]
       a  Point of view (person, number)  
       b  Verb tense   
       c  Verb mood, voice  
       d  Indirect to direct questions or quotations  
14 Emphasize key ideas. [e-Pages]     
       a  Coordination and subordination  
       b  Choppy sentences  
       c  Ineffective or excessive coordination  
       d  Ineffective subordination  
       e  Excessive subordination  
       f  Other techniques  
15 Provide some variety. [e-Pages]     
       a  Sentence openings  
       b  Sentence structures  
       c  Inverted order  
       d  Question or quotation 
Part IV Word Choice  
16 Tighten wordy sentences. [e-Pages, LC]     
       a  Redundancies  
       b  Unnecessary repetition  
       c  Empty or inflated phrases  
       d  Simplifying the structure  
       e  Reducing clauses to phrases, phrases to single words  
17 Choose appropriate language. [e-Pages, LC]     
       a  Jargon  
       b  Pretentious language, euphemisms, “doublespeak”  
       c  Obsolete and invented words  
       d  Slang, regional expressions, nonstandard English  
       e  Levels of formality  
       f  Sexist language  
       g  Offensive language  
18 Find the exact words. [e-Pages, LC]     
       a  Connotations  
       b  Specific, concrete nouns  
       c  Misused words  
       d  Standard idioms  
       e  Clichés  
       f  Figures of speech  
Part V Grammatical Sentences  
19 Repair sentence fragments. [e-Pages, LC]

       a  Subordinate clauses  
       b  Phrases  
       c  Other fragmented word groups  
       d  Acceptable fragments  
20 Revise run-on sentences. [e-Pages, LC]
       a  Correction with coordinating conjunction  
       b  Correction with semicolon, colon, or dash  
       c  Correction by separating sentences  
       d  Correction by restructuring  
21 Make subjects and verbs agree. [e-Pages, LC] 
       a  Standard subject-verb combinations  
       b  Words between subject and verb 
       c  Subjects joined with and  
       d  Subjects joined with or, nor, either . . . or, or neither . . . nor  
       e  Indefinite pronouns  
       f  Collective nouns  
       g  Subject following verb  
       h  Subject, not subject complement  
       i  who, which, and that  
       j  Words with plural form, singular meaning  
       k  Titles of works, company names, words mentioned as words, gerund phrases  
22 Make pronouns and antecedents agree. [e-Pages, LC]
       a  Singular with singular, plural with plural (indefinite pronouns, generic nouns)  
       b  Collective nouns  
       c  Antecedents joined with and  
       d  Antecedents joined with or, nor, either . . or, or neither . . . nor  
23 Make pronoun references clear. [e-Pages, LC]
       a  Ambiguous or remote reference  
       b  Broad reference of this, that, which, and it  
       c  Implied antecedents  
       d  Indefinite use of they, it, and you  
       e  who for persons, which or that for things  
24 Distinguish between pronouns such as I and me. [e-Pages]     
       a  Subjective case for subjects and subject complements  
       b  Objective case for objects  
       c  Appositives  
       d  Pronoun following than or as  
       e  we or us before a noun  
       f  ubjects and objects of infinitives  
       g  Pronoun modifying a gerund  
25 Distinguish between who and whom. [e-Pages]     
       a  In subordinate clauses  
       b  In questions  
       c  As subjects or objects of infinitives  
26 Choose adjectives and adverbs with care. [e-Pages]     
       a  Adjectives to modify nouns  
       b  Adverbs to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs  
       c  good and well, bad and badly  
       d  Comparatives and superlatives  
       e  Double negatives  
27 Choose appropriate verb forms, tenses, and moods in standard English. [e-Pages, LC]
       a  Irregular verbs  
       b  lie and lay  
       c  -s (or -es) endings  
       d  -ed endings  
       e  Omitted verbs  
       f  Verb tense  
       g  Subjunctive mood  
Part VI Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges   
28 Verbs [e-Pages, LC]
      
       a  Appropriate form and tense  
       b  Passive voice  
       c  Base form after a modal  
       d  Negative verb forms  
       e  Verbs in conditional sentences  
       f  Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives  
29 Articles [e-Pages, LC]     
       a  Articles and other noun markers  
       b  When to use the  
       c  When to use a or an  
       d  When not to use a or an  
       e  No articles with general nouns  
       f  Articles with proper nouns  
30 Sentence structure [e-Pages, LC]      
       a  Linking verb between a subject and its complement  
       b  A subject in every sentence  
       c  Repeated nouns or pronouns with the same grammatical function  
       d  Repeated objects, adverbs in adjective clauses  
       e  Mixed constructions with although or because  
       f  Placement of adverbs  
       g  Present participles and past participles  
       h  Order of cumulative adjectives  
31 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions [e-Pages]     
       a  Prepositions showing time and place  
       b  Noun (including -ing form) after a preposition  
       c  Common adjective + preposition combinations  
       d  Common verb + preposition combinations  
Part VII Punctuation  
32 The comma [e-Pages, LC]

       a  Independent clauses joined with and, but, etc.  
       b  Introductory clauses or phrases 
       c  Items in a series  
       d  Coordinate adjectives  
       e  Nonrestrictive elements  
       f  Transitions, parenthetical expressions, absolute phrases, contrasts  
       g  Direct address, yes and no, interrogative tags, interjections  
       h  he said, etc.  
       i  Dates, addresses, titles, numbers  
33 Unnecessary commas [e-Pages]     
       a  Between two words, phrases, or subordinate clauses  
       b  Between a verb and its subject or object  
       c  Before the first or after the last item in a series  
       d  Between cumulative adjectives, an adjective and a noun, or an adverb and an adjective  
       e  Before and after restrictive or mildly parenthetical elements  
       f  Before essential concluding adverbial elements  
       g  After a phrase beginning an inverted sentence  
       h  Other misuses  
34 The semicolon [e-Pages]      
       a  Independent clauses not joined with a coordinating conjunction  
       b  Independent clauses linked with a transitional expression  
       c  Series containing internal punctuation  
       d  Misuses  
35 The colon [e-Pages]
       a  Before a list, an appositive, a quotation, or a summary  
       b  Conventional uses 
       c  Misuses  
36 The apostrophe [e-Pages, LC]
       a  Possessive nouns  
       b  Possessive indefinite pronouns  
       c  Contractions  
       d  Not for plural numbers, letters, abbreviations, words as words  
       e  Misuses  
37 Quotation marks [e-Pages]     
       a  Direct quotations  
       b  Quotation within a quotation  
       c  Titles of works  
       d  Words as words  
       e  With other punctuation marks  
       f  Misuses  
38 End punctuation   
       a  The period  
       b  The question mark  
       c  The exclamation point  
39 Other punctuation marks [e-Pages]     
       a  Dash  
       b  Parentheses  
       c  Brackets  
       d  Ellipsis mark  
       e  Slash  
Part VIII Mechanics  
40 Abbreviations [e-Pages]
     
       a  Titles with proper names  
       b  Familiar abbreviations  
       c  Conventional abbreviations  
       d  Units of measurement 
       e  Latin abbreviations  
       f  Plural of abbreviations 
       g  Misuses  
41 Numbers [e-Pages]     
       a  Spelling out  
       b  Using numerals  
42 Italics [e-Pages]     
       a  Titles of works  
       b  Names of spacecraft, aircraft, and ships  
       c  Foreign words  
       d  Words as words, letters as letters, and numbers as numbers 
43 Spelling   
       a  Spelling rules  
       b  The dictionary  
       c  Words that sound alike  
       d  Commonly misspelled words  
44 The hyphen [e-Pages]    
       a  Compound words  
       b  Hyphenated adjectives  
       c  Fractions and compound numbers  
       d  With certain prefixes and suffixes  
       e  To avoid ambiguity or to separate awkward double or triple letters  
       f  Word division  
45 Capitalization [e-Pages, LC] 
       a  Proper versus common nouns  
       b  Titles with proper names 
       c  Titles and subtitles of works  
       d  First word of a sentence  
       e  First word of a quoted sentence  
       f  First word after a colon 
       g  Abbreviations  
Part IX Grammar Basics  
46 Parts of speech [e-Pages, LC]

       a  Nouns  
       b  Pronouns    
       c  Verbs   
       d  Adjectives    
       e  Adverbs   
       f  Prepositions   
       g  Conjunctions   
       h  Interjections  
47 Sentence patterns [e-Pages]  
       a  Subjects  
       b  Verbs, objects, and complements  
       c  Pattern variations  
48 Subordinate word groups [e-Pages]      
       a  Prepositional phrases 
       b  Verbal phrases  
       c  Appositive phrases 
       d  Absolute phrases  
       e  Subordinate clauses 
49 Sentence types [e-Pages]     
       a  Sentence structures 
       b  Sentence purposes 
Part X Researched Writing  
50 Conducting research [e-Pages]      
Becoming a college writer: Join a research conversation  
       a  Managing stress by managing the project 
       b  Posing questions worth exploring  
       c  Mapping out a search strategy  
       d  Searching efficiently; mastering a few shortcuts to finding good sources  
       e  Conducting field research, if appropriate 
51 Managing information; taking notes responsibly [e-Pages]    
       a  Maintaining a working bibliography  
       b  Keeping track of source materials  
       c  Avoiding unintentional plagiarism  
52 Evaluating sources [e-Pages]      
       a  Determining how sources might contribute to your writing  
       b  Selecting sources worth your time and attention  
       c  Selecting appropriate versions of online sources   
       d  Reading with an open mind and a critical eye   
       e  Assessing Web sources with care   
       f  Constructing an annotated bibliography  
           Writing Guide: Annotated bibliography  
Writing MLA papers  
53 Supporting a thesis [e-Pages]
     
       a  Forming a working thesis  
       b  Organizing ideas with a rough outline  
       c  Using sources to inform and support your argument  
       d  Drafting an introduction for your thesis  
       e  Providing organizational cues  
       f  Drafting the paper in an appropriate voice  
54 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism [e-Pages]      
       a  Understanding how the MLA system works  
       b  Avoiding plagiarism when quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing sources  
55 Integrating sources [e-Pages]      
Becoming a college writer: Provide context for sources    
       a  Using quotations appropriately  
       b  Using signal phrases to integrate sources  
       c  Synthesizing sources   
56 MLA documentation style [e-Pages]      
       a  MLA in-text citations  
       b  MLA list of works cited  
       c  MLA information notes (optional)  
57 MLA manuscript format; sample research paper  
       a  MLA manuscript format  
       b  Sample MLA research paper  
           Writing guide: Research paper  
Writing APA papers  
58 Supporting a thesis [e-Pages]      
       a  Forming a working thesis 
       b  Organizing your ideas 
       c  Using sources to inform and support your argument 
59 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism [e-Pages]      
       a  Using the APA system for citing sources 
       b  Avoiding plagiarism  
60 Integrating sources [e-Pages]   
       a  Using quotations appropriately  
       b  Using signal phrases to integrate sources  
       c  Synthesizing sources    
61 APA documentation style [e-Pages]     
       a
  APA in-text citations 
       b  APA list of references 
62 APA manuscript format; sample research paper  
       a  APA manuscript format 
       b  Sample APA research paper 
Writing Chicago papers  
63 Chicago papers [e-Pages]     
       a  Supporting a thesis  
       b  Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism  
       c  Integrating sources  
       d  Chicago documentation style    
       e  Chicago manuscript format  
       f  Sample Chicago research paper  
Part XI Writing in the Disciplines   
64 Learning to write in a discipline
 
       a  Finding commonalities across disciplines 
       b  Recognizing the questions that writers in a discipline ask 
       c  Understanding the kinds of evidence that writers in a discipline use 
       d  Becoming familiar with the discipline’s language conventions 
       e  Using a discipline’s preferred citation style 
65 Approaching writing assignments in the disciplines 
       a  Writing in psychology 
       b  Writing in business  
       c  Writing in biology 
       d  Writing in nursing 
APPENDIX: A Document Design Gallery   
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Diana Hacker

Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over thirty-five years at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, 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. Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, include A Writer’s Reference, Ninth Edition (2018); A Pocket Style Manual, Eighth Edition (2018); The Bedford Handbook, Tenth Edition (2017); Rules for Writers, Eighth Edition (2016); and Writer’s Help 2.0, Hacker Version.


Nancy Sommers

Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard’s Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard’s WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” and “Responding to Student Writing” are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through blogging and through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and is coauthor of Fields of Reading, Tenth Edition (2013).

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