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Rules for Writers, Seventh Edition
Diana Hacker Nancy Sommers

Whats new on the companion Web site?
hackerhandbooks.com/rules

The companion Web site for Rules for Writers, Seventh Edition, now provides even more help
for college writers in any discipline.

34 new exercises
22 new student papers and other model documents
Nancy Sommers videos
New help with revision
New support for instructors

34 new exercises. New interactive grammar, writing, and research exercises provide even more
opportunities for student writers to practice everything from sentence clarity to documenting
sources in MLA and APA styles.

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Fourteen new model papers and eight other documents in four citation styles. Papers are now
organized in two ways: by documentation style and by genre.
New MLA-style papers: argument paper, concert review, paper-in-progress (draft and
final), outline, and portfolio cover letter
New APA-style papers: literature review, business proposal, nursing practice paper,
business report, reflective essay, and crime report
New CSE-style paper: lab report
New USGS-style paper: report
A collection of professional models such as rsums and business memos

Nancy Sommers videos. These new videos feature author Nancy Sommers addressing topics
such as revision, reading and responding, teacher comments, argument, and the composing
process.

New section on revising. Here youll find sample revisions, revision checklists, student papers
(rough and final), and a revising with comments feature designed to help students understand
and apply their teachers feedback as they start to rework their papers.

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What if Im still using the sixth edition?
You can still use the Web site for the sixth edition. You can get there two ways:

1. Use the direct URL:
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/rules6e
You may bookmark this site for your convenience.

2. You can also link to the sixth edition site from the seventh edition site. See the link on the left
side of the page. Except for the new URL, the sixth edition site is unchanged.

Using the Sixth Edition?
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Note for exercise users: Data from the sixth edition site (such as student exercise results) are
not accessible through the seventh edition site. Users of Rules for Writers, Seventh Edition, can
still access the sixth edition site in one of the ways noted on page 3. Instructors teaching with
the sixth edition site can still access their students scores on that site.

Do the new exercises function like the others?
As on the Web site for Rules for Writers, Sixth Edition, students must log in to complete
exercises. For instructors to have access to students scores, students must record their
instructors e-mail address with their student profile. Students will be prompted to enter this
information when they log in.

Whats new for instructors?
Visit hackerhandbooks.com, our new Web site dedicated to providing instructors with
information and ideas from coauthor Nancy Sommers, other teachers of writing, and the
Hacker handbooks editors at Bedford/St. Martins. Youll also find Teaching with Hacker
Handbooks available for download.

Instructor resources are protected so that students cannot gain access to them; instructors
must log in to access these resources.

Have the exercise numbers changed?
Most exercise numbers have changed. The changes are detailed in the following chart, with
numbers and titles of new exercises in bold.

Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers,
Rules for Writers 7th edition vs. 6th edition exercise numbers

RULES 6/e
No.
RULES 7/e
No.
Exercise Title
1-1 1-3 Purpose and audience
1-2 2-2 Thesis statements
2-3 Thesis statements
2-2 2-4 Introductions
4-1 4-2 Topic sentences
4-2 4-3 Transitions
8-1 8-2
Identifying active and passive voice
8-3
Active vs. passive voice
8-2 8-4
Active vs. be verbs
8-3 8-5
Active verbs
9-2 Identifying parallel structure
9-1 9-3 Parallelism
9-2 9-4 Parallelism
9-3 9-5 Parallelism
10-1 10-2 Needed words
10-3 Needed words
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RULES 6/e
No.
RULES 7/e
No.
Exercise Title
10-2 10-4 Needed words
11-1 11-2 Mixed constructions
11-3 Mixed constructions
11-2 11-4 Mixed constructions
12-1
12-3 Misplaced modifiers

12-2
12-3
12-6 Dangling modifiers

12-4
13-1
13-5 Shifts: person and number
13-2
13-6 Shifts: tense

13-7 Shifts: mood and voice, questions and quotations
13-3
13-8 Shifts
13-4
13-9 Shifts
14-1
14-5 Combining choppy sentences
14-3
14-6 Identifying sentence emphasis
14-2
14-7 Using coordination and subordination

14-8 Combining choppy sentences
16-1
16-3 Wordy sentences

16-2
16-3
17-1 17-6 Jargon
17-2
17-7
Sexist language

17-8
Sexist language
18-1
18-5 Misused words
18-2
18-6 Standard idioms
18-3
18-7 Clichs and mixed metaphors
19-2
19-3 Sentence fragments

19-2
19-3
20-1
20-4 Run-on sentences

20-2
20-3
21-1
21-3 Subject-verb agreement
21-2
21-3
22-1
22-3 Pronoun-antecedent agreement
22-2
22-3
23-1
23-3 Pronoun reference
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RULES 6/e
No.
RULES 7/e
No.
Exercise Title
23-2
23-3
24-1
24-3 Pronoun case (such as I vs. me)
24-2
24-4 Pronoun case (such as I vs. me)
25-1
25-2 who and whom
25-2
25-3 Pronoun case: review

25-4 Pronoun case: review
26-1
26-3 Adjectives and adverbs
26-2
26-4 Adjectives and adverbs
27-1
27-4
Irregular verbs

27-5
Irregular verbs
27-2
27-6
Standard English verb forms

27-7
Standard English verb forms
27-3
27-8
Verb tense and mood

27-9
Verb tense and mood
28-1 28-5 Verb forms and tenses
28-2 28-6 Verb forms with modals
28-3 28-7 Conditional sentences
28-4 28-8 Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives
28-9 Using verbs: review
29-1 29-3 Using articles
29-4 Using articles
29-2 29-5 Articles and types of nouns
30-1 30-5 Omissions and repetitions
30-2 30-6 Sentence structure
30-3 30-7 Present vs. past participles
30-4 30-8 Order of cumulative adjectives
31-1 31-2 Prepositions showing time and place
32-1
32-8 Major uses of the comma
32-2
32-9 Major uses of the comma
32-3
32-10 All uses of the comma
33-1
33-3 Misuses of the comma

33-4 Misuses of the comma
34-1
34-3 The semicolon and the comma
34-2
34-4 The semicolon and the comma
35-1
35-2 The colon, the semicolon, and the comma
36-1
36-3 The apostrophe

36-4 The apostrophe
37-1
37-3 Quotation marks

37-4
Quotation marks
39-1
39-2
Other punctuation marks
40-1
40-2 Abbreviations
41-1
41-2 Numbers
42-1
42-2 Italics
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RULES 6/e
No.
RULES 7/e
No.
Exercise Title
44-1
44-2 The hyphen
45-1
45-2 Capital letters
62-1 46-5 Parts of speech: nouns
46-6 Parts of speech: nouns
62-2 46-7 Parts of speech: pronouns
46-8 Parts of speech: pronouns
62-3 46-9 Parts of speech: verbs
62-4 46-10 Parts of speech: verbs
62-5 46-11 Parts of speech: adjectives
46-12 Parts of speech: adjectives
62-6 46-13 Parts of speech: adverbs
46-14 Parts of speech: adverbs
62-7 46-15 All parts of speech
46-16 All parts of speech
63-1 47-4 Subjects
63-2 47-5 Subjects
63-3 47-6 Subject complements and direct objects
63-4 47-7 Indirect objects and object complements
47-8 All objects and complements
63-5 47-9 Linking, transitive, and intransitive verbs
64-1 48-4 Prepositional phrases
64-2 48-5 Prepositional phrases
64-3 48-6 Objects of prepositions
64-7 48-7 Verbal phrases
64-8 48-8 Verbal phrases
64-4 48-9 Subordinate clauses
64-5 48-10 Subordinate clauses
64-6 48-11 Subjects of subordinate clauses
64-9 48-12 Phrases and clauses
65-1 49-2 Sentence types
49-1 53-1 Research questions
52-1
56-1 Thesis statements in MLA papers

56-2 Thesis statements in MLA papers
53-1
57-1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
53-2
53-3
53-4
53-5
53-6
57-6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers
54-1
58-1 Integrating sources in MLA papers
54-2
54-3
54-4
55-1
59-1 MLA documentation: in-text citations
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RULES 6/e
No.
RULES 7/e
No.
Exercise Title
55-2

55-3
59-4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources
55-4
59-5 MLA documentation: works cited
55-5

55-6
59-8 MLA documentation
57-1
61-1 Thesis statements in APA papers

61-2 Thesis statements in APA papers
58-1
62-1 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers
58-2
58-3
58-4
58-5
62-5 Recognizing common knowledge in APA papers
59-1
63-1 Integrating sources in APA papers
59-2
59-3
59-4
60-1
64-1 APA documentation: in-text citations
60-2
60-3
60-4
64-4 APA documentation: identifying elements of sources
60-5
64-5 APA documentation: reference list


60-6
64-8 APA documentation
67-1 Thesis statements in literature papers

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