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A Writer's Reference

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This book was ordered as a requirement for a class and now I will not part with it. It has saved me more times than I can count. I keep it close-by and use it regularly.

This book is a must have for anyone attending college that has to write papers. It will guide you through citing your references correctly. I would have been lost without it. I was happy that this book was cheaper on Amazon versus our bookstore, and other retailers in the area.

I STILL HAVE THIS BOOK. ONCE YOU BUY IT, YOU WANT TO KEEP IT. IT WILL HELP YOU AS YOU CONTINUE YOUR EDUCATION AND NEED TO WRITE PAPERS. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS TO STUDENTS AND PEOPLE CURRENTLY IN ENGLISH 101 AND 102. IT WILL ALSO BE HELPFUL FOR TEENS IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TOO.

This book needs to stay within my book shelf walls for all eternity! A must have !

I am using it as a refresher to get back into academic writing, very helpful.

I have the 4th edition of this book. It's been the most useful text book I ever bought. I've used it over and over for understanding how to correctly cite references in my papers in MLA format. It has notes for how to do things in APA and Chicago format as well, though MLA format is more prominent in this reference. I couldn't have ever gotten this far in college without it.

Book is divided into sections that make answers easy to find. Provides rules for grammar and punctuation.

A Writer's Reference, sixth edition, by Diana Hacker, Published by: Bedford/St. Martin's (November 23, 2006)

This book is used in colleges and universities throughout the country, and can be a useful tool throughout one's high school and college education. The book is divided into tabbed sections that provide an easy way to access crucial information to be a successful writer. The material contained within can be used by students or individual writers alike, providing grammatical information, writing styles, and accepted writing formats such as information on how to create MLA, APA, and CMS formatted documents, essays, term papers, and other types of academic writing. The book provides structure, pronunciation, writing styles, word choices, the mechanics of writing, and instructions for successful researching, including how to cite references to avoid inadvertent plagiarism.

Companion websites accompany material in the book and enhance the content, providing exercises to test the reader's comprehension and supply additional information to help each reader to be a successful writer.

This book is a must-have for any writer, whether a student, author, columnist, or hobbyist.

This book is neither fish nor fowl. It combines a very basic writing guide at an undergraduate level with radically abridged versions of scholarly style guides that purport to be adequate (but are not) for graduate students and scholars. This might be useful to undergraduates who are ill-prepared for post-secondary studies but will be woefully inadequate for everyone else. Frankly, I bought this because it was required by an instructor for a graduate course. That fact alone should have been my first clue that he would not prove to be much of a teacher.

Needed this for class. The book was in great condition. There wasn't really anything unique or special about this book. Everything I needed out of it I was able to get out of other writing references.