Pocket Style Manual: Updated With Mla's 1999 Guidelines
by: Diana Hacker
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Covers clarity, grammar, usage, puntuation and mechanics, as well as common ESL problems and MLA and APA documentation. The book includes hand-edited examples that show students how to correct errors.
Covers clarity, grammar, usage, puntuation and mechanics, as well as common ESL problems and MLA and APA documentation. The book includes hand-edited examples that show students how to correct errors.
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- Rip off
I bought this product because my class needed it. Although I never used it much and regret ever buying this because of my English class, it is somewhat useful in its own little ways.
Kudo to the author, it gets the basics down but nothing more other than that.
Rating: 
- Quick resource
This is a very good book for those that have limited time to master APA style. However, it still managed to be very comprehensive. A very good resource to have with you in graduate school.
Rating: - Very handy and worth every penny!
The Pocket Style Manual is the best compiled notes ever for any English class from junior high to college.I use it everytime I have a paper to do and has all the examples in most major formats and outlines.The PSM will cover Clarity, Grammer, Punctuation, Mechanics, Research, MLA papers, APA papers, Chicago papers, Glossaries (of usage and of grammatical terms), A list of style manuals and index.The PSM also includes Menu of charts and lists, menu of student papers, checklist for global revision, ... Read More
Rating: - The best book for college
This is by far the best book i have ever bought. I had classes and it was never required so i never bought it. Then one day i used my roommates and was so happy with it that i bought it. THe best investment for all classes .
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- Generic and trite
Way to costly (even used at $2) for the quality of information inside; you can go online to learn how to write bibliography in APA, etc style. Whatwriters of these books forget is that there is more to APA, MLA, Chicago than the 20-30 pages devoted to each one. Most of the entire theoretical relaying of information in this formats are missed such as, in APA you will not ever write "I believe"...why do this books refuse to continue to resist providing crucial information like this? It makes the writer ... Read More
- Rip offI bought this product because my class needed it. Although I never used it much and regret ever buying this because of my English class, it is somewhat useful in its own little ways.
Kudo to the author, it gets the basics down but nothing more other than that.
- Quick resourceThis is a very good book for those that have limited time to master APA style. However, it still managed to be very comprehensive. A very good resource to have with you in graduate school.
- Very handy and worth every penny!The Pocket Style Manual is the best compiled notes ever for any English class from junior high to college.I use it everytime I have a paper to do and has all the examples in most major formats and outlines.The PSM will cover Clarity, Grammer, Punctuation, Mechanics, Research, MLA papers, APA papers, Chicago papers, Glossaries (of usage and of grammatical terms), A list of style manuals and index.The PSM also includes Menu of charts and lists, menu of student papers, checklist for global revision, ... Read More
- The best book for college This is by far the best book i have ever bought. I had classes and it was never required so i never bought it. Then one day i used my roommates and was so happy with it that i bought it. THe best investment for all classes .
- Generic and triteWay to costly (even used at $2) for the quality of information inside; you can go online to learn how to write bibliography in APA, etc style. Whatwriters of these books forget is that there is more to APA, MLA, Chicago than the 20-30 pages devoted to each one. Most of the entire theoretical relaying of information in this formats are missed such as, in APA you will not ever write "I believe"...why do this books refuse to continue to resist providing crucial information like this? It makes the writer ... Read More
