A Writer's Reference with Writing about Literature (Eleventh Edition)

By: Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers

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Synopsis: Your college writing will be one way you put your ideas and your self out into the world. A Writer’s Reference helps you strengthen your skills for that important work. It helps you develop a range of literacies—writing, reading, thinking, collaborating, using information, and working responsibly with AI. Acknowledging that generative AI tools are part of many writer’s processes, A Writer’s Reference teaches concrete, flexible strategies for applying your human intelligence to artificial intelligence (see C1-a and the AI tips throughout). It helps writers to see AI not as a substitute but a starting point, because if you’ve heard the expression “you do you,” know that AI simply can’t do you. Not authentically. It seems magical, but in fact it understands nothing, can’t think, and won’t ever replace the human voice your readers will want to hear.