Easiest handbook to use. Trademark reference features — tabbed dividers, color-coded menus, documentation directories, and a user-friendly index guide students quickly to the help they need.
Easiest handbook to understand. The clear, concise writing style and friendly tone make the book accessible to students with a range of abilities. The uncluttered design, along with, charts, and annotated visuals and models highlight important information throughout the book. Hand-edited examples let students see an error and its correction at a glance.
A handbook that has always responded to changes in the field. Growing diversity in the composition class was the inspiration for ESL coverage, which appeared first in a Hacker handbook. Now with more colleges emphasizing writing in the disciplines, A Writer's Reference is a truly cross-disciplinary reference.
The first handbook to offer versions to support the wide range of student writers. A Writer's Reference is available in a classic version that supports all academic writers and college researchers, or in one of seven versions with additional content — one with exercises, one with additional support for writing in the disciplines, one with advice for online students, one that covers writing about literature, and one with additional content for multilingual writers.