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The best research and writing coverage in a pocket-sized handbook. With more discipline-specific examples and clear guidelines for MLA, APA, and Chicago documentation styles, the fifth edition of A Pocket Style Manual provides concise, straightforward content that is flexible enough to suit your needs---whether you're writing in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, health professions, or business. Visit the book's free companion Web site for additional practice or for other helpful resources.
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Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. The first of its kind, A Pocket Style Manual continues to help student writers get answers to their writing and research questions. Its concise and straightforward content is flexible enough to suit the needs of writers in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, health professions, business courses, fine arts, teacher training courses, and beyond. Its slim format, brief length, and spiral binding make it a portable and practical tool. With its signature Diana Hacker quick-reference features, A Pocket Style Manual has always provided quick solutions to writing problems. Supplemented by the best free and open Web resources, A Pocket Style Manual offers the best value for students.In the Hacker tradition, the new contributing authors — Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig, and Marcy Carbajal Van Horn — have crafted solutions for the challenges today’s college students face. Together they give us a new edition that provides more help with research writing and one that works better for a wider range of students.
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