Rules for Writers

When students routinely use their handbook in the course, they see its value, find that it’s a faster way to get answers than search engines like Google, learn to rely on it as a reference, and are more likely to achieve the goals of the course. And when that handbook is Rules for Writers, you can be sure the advice they find is practical and reliable—with help for composing and revising, writing arguments, analyzing texts, using grammar and punctuation correctly, and working with sources. In revising the eighth edition, Nancy Sommers has woven a new emphasis on reading critically throughout the first section of the handbook, introduced advice for analyzing multimodal texts, and added help for public speaking. New practical Writing Guides support students working through college assignments in a variety of genres. And new peer review advice helps students effectively comment on drafts and apply feedback to revisions of their own work. All of these improvements help student writers—but they also save you time and effort. You can draw from Rules for Writers for planning class discussions, conducting in-class workshops, and providing feedback on student work that they can easily apply. Rules for Writers even comes with a complete instructor’s manual, Teaching with Hacker Handbooks, with stepped-out lesson plans to customize and sample assignments, syllabi, and rubrics from your peers.

• The Bedford Reader
• Developmental Exercises for Rules for Writers
• The Brief Bedford Reader
• Practical Argument: A Text and Anthology
• Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition
• Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing
• The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings
• Successful College Writing: Skills, Strategies, Learning Styles
• The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing (10th Edition)
• Common Culture (7th Edition)