A Pocket Style Manual

A Pocket Style Manual

Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers

Language: English

Pages: 320

ISBN: 1457642328

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Your students need clear, complete answers to their questions about research, writing, and grammar—and they often need them at a moment’s notice. As their teacher, you are their greatest resource, but you can’t be available 24/7. For help with work in class and at home and especially for questions at odd hours, students can turn to A Pocket Style Manual.

The thoughtfully revised seventh edition makes it even easier for students to effectively and independently address their writing and research challenges. With 325 documentation models in four styles and coverage of drafting thesis statements, writing correctly and effectively, finding and evaluating sources, and writing research papers, A Pocket Style Manual supports writers across the disciplines.

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correct pronoun, some writers try to evade the choice by using a reflexive pronoun such as myself. Using a reflexive pronoun in such situations is nonstandard. ▶▶ The Indian cab driver gave my husband and me myself some good tips on traveling in New Delhi. ^ My husband and me is the indirect object of the verb gave. Appositives  Appositives are noun phrases that rename nouns or pronouns. A pronoun used as an appositive has the same function (usually subject or object) as the word(s) it

primarily in subordinate clauses or in questions. In subordinate clauses  When deciding whether to use who or whom in a subordinate clause, check for the word’s function within the clause. ▶▶ whoever He tells that story to whomever will listen. ^ Whoever is the subject of will listen. The entire sub­ordinate clause whoever will listen is the object of the preposition to. ▶▶ whom You will work with our senior engineers, who you will meet later. ^ Whom is the direct object of the verb

vowel. Keep the final -e if the suffix begins with a consonant. desire, desiring remove, removable achieve, achievement care, careful Words such as changeable, judgment, argument, and truly are exceptions. 3. When adding -s or -ed to words ending in -y, ordinarily change -y to -i when the -y is preceded by a consonant but not when it is preceded by a vowel. comedy, comedies dry, dried monkey, monkeys play, played With proper names ending in -y, however, do not change the -y to -i even if

Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, is one of the most frequently consulted wikis. In general, Wikipedia may be helpful if you’re checking for something that is common knowledge or looking for current information about a topic in contemporary culture. (For a discussion of common knowledge in various disciplines, see pp. 108, 166–67, and 210.) However, many scholars do not consider Wikipedia and wikis in general to be appropriate sources for college research. Authorship is not

logically to any word in the sentence. Dangling modifiers are usually introductory word groups (such as verbal phrases) that suggest but do not name an actor. When a sentence opens with such a C_54254_01_001-018.indd 11 10/3/11 mm/dm 7d 12 Misplaced and dangling modifiers modifier, readers expect the subject of the next clause to name the actor. If it doesn’t, the modifier dangles. dangling Upon entering the doctor’s office, a skeleton caught my attention. This sentence

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