Inexpensive, pocket-sized, and spiral-bound. A Pocket Style Manual is about one-third of the price of full-sized handbooks. And the book’s small size makes it as easy to carry as it is to use.
Essential writing, grammar, and style coverage. A Pocket Style Manual delivers clear and succinct coverage of the topics college writers most frequently consult in a handbook: clarity, grammar, usage, punctuation, and mechanics. Clear explanations are paired with hand-edited sentences that allow students to see at a glance an error and its correction. A chapter is devoted to advice for multilingual writers.
Discipline-focused advice for research and writing—from thesis to documentation. Students can plan and draft their papers using specific advice for writing and working with sources in a wide range of disciplines—with the most up-to-date guidelines for citing sources in four documentation styles.
Annotated model papers in the book and on the Web. Pages from six model papers are annotated in the book to highlight sound rhetorical strategies and proper formatting. More than 30 full papers appear on the free companion Web site.
A reference students can—and will—use on their own. Signature Hacker features help students find the information they need and understand what they find: quick-reference tabs and menus; clean, uncluttered pages; accessible explanations; hand-edited examples; and a user-friendly index.