It’s a Hacker handbook. With Diana Hacker’s trademark straightforward and unpretentious style, Hacker handbooks are trusted by thousands of writers and their instructors at every type of school — four-year universities, community colleges, and technical schools.
Inexpensive, pocket sized, and spiral bound.
A Pocket Style Manual is one-third of the price of full-sized handbooks and the book’s small size and spiral binding make it as easy to use as it is to carry.
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.
The ground rules of good writing. Whether students are writing in literature, psychology, history, or in other disciplines, they need a firm grasp of key skills. A checklist for global revision and practical advice throughout prompts students to review their essays for focus, organization, content, style, and use of sources — universal concerns in all academic writing.
Common topics. Clear advice. A Pocket Style Manual delivers clear and succinct coverage of the topics college writers most frequently need 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.
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 humanities and social sciences — with the most up-to-date guidelines for citing sources.