Books by Diana Hacker

For more than 25 years, this bestselling handbook has allowed students to build confidence and take ownership of their college writing experience. This version includes a section called Writing about Literature, a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. This is an ideal text for English Composition courses, foundation year modules, English degree programmes, and those studying English Literature.A Writer's Reference is available with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive ebook with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. See 'Instructor Resources' and 'Student Resources' for further information.

A companion for writing for higher education in all disciplines, making it easy for students to keep all of the guidelines and best practices to hand. This latest edition emphasises step-by-step how-to instruction that helps students apply writing, research, and citation advice in practical, transferable ways. It features more than 300 documentation models in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles.

Good student writers are curious, engaged and reflective. They read critically. They write with purpose. They know credible evidence makes them credible researchers. The Bedford Handbook, based on surveys with more than 1,000 first-year students, fosters these habits and offers more support than ever before for college reading and writing.