A Pocket Style Manual

Front Cover
Used by nearly a quarter million students each year, A Pocket Style Manual is a straightforward, inexpensive quick reference, with content flexible enough to suit the needs of writers in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, health professions, business, fine arts, education, and beyond. Its slim format, brief length, and spiral binding make it easy for students to keep A Pocket Style Manual with them for every writing assignment, in any class. With its signature Hacker handbook quick-reference features—hand-edited sentences, color-coded documentation coverage, user-friendly index entries, and a clean, uncluttered design—A Pocket Style Manual has always provided fast, effective answers to writing and research questions. In the Hacker tradition, new coauthor Nancy Sommers has crafted solutions for the challenges today’s college students face. The new edition provides even more help with research writing and supports students in every discipline. Read the preface.
 

Contents

Clarity
1
Grammar
19
Punctuation
54
Mechanics
75
Research
87
MLA Papers
104
APA Papers
163
Chicago Papers
207
Index
279
Documentation directories
301
Charts and lists for quick reference
307
Checklist for global revision
308
List of excerpts from student papers
309
Visiting the writing center
310
Revision symbols
311
Detailed Menu
312

CSE Papers
243
Glossaries
259

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information