The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students - Sixth Edition
“Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide to Writing, which is smart, helpful, and even fun to read.” —Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

Key Features

    —A coil-bound reference text suitable for a range of introductory composition and writing courses
    —Divided into three sections:
      Writing Processes (including Research, Argumentation, and Style)
      Writing Mechanics (Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation)
      Writing Contexts (Writing in different academic disciplines, Forms and conventions, and citation)

    —Comprehensive treatment of citation style guides, with 2016 MLA style updates
    —Expanded treatment of research methods, argument structures, and writing in the workplace
    —A unique section on “How to Be Good With Words”—issues of gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
    —Expanded coverage for those whose native language is not English
    —All-new chapter on reading images
    —Extensive companion website featuring interactive exercises

Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. That does not change with the new edition; what does change and stay up-to-date is the content of the book. The sixth edition brings a substantial re-organization of the contents under three headings: Writing Processes, Writing Mechanics, and Writing Contexts. Coverage of APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded, and the MLA section has now been fully revised to take into account all the 2016 changes. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, of paragraphing; of how to integrate quoted material into one’s own work; of balance and parallelism; and of issues of gender, race, religion etc. in writing. The chapter “Seeing and Meaning: Reading (and Writing About) Visual Images” is entirely new to the sixth edition.

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The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students - Sixth Edition
“Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide to Writing, which is smart, helpful, and even fun to read.” —Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

Key Features

    —A coil-bound reference text suitable for a range of introductory composition and writing courses
    —Divided into three sections:
      Writing Processes (including Research, Argumentation, and Style)
      Writing Mechanics (Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation)
      Writing Contexts (Writing in different academic disciplines, Forms and conventions, and citation)

    —Comprehensive treatment of citation style guides, with 2016 MLA style updates
    —Expanded treatment of research methods, argument structures, and writing in the workplace
    —A unique section on “How to Be Good With Words”—issues of gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
    —Expanded coverage for those whose native language is not English
    —All-new chapter on reading images
    —Extensive companion website featuring interactive exercises

Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. That does not change with the new edition; what does change and stay up-to-date is the content of the book. The sixth edition brings a substantial re-organization of the contents under three headings: Writing Processes, Writing Mechanics, and Writing Contexts. Coverage of APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded, and the MLA section has now been fully revised to take into account all the 2016 changes. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, of paragraphing; of how to integrate quoted material into one’s own work; of balance and parallelism; and of issues of gender, race, religion etc. in writing. The chapter “Seeing and Meaning: Reading (and Writing About) Visual Images” is entirely new to the sixth edition.

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The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students - Sixth Edition

The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students - Sixth Edition

The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students - Sixth Edition

The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students - Sixth Edition

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Overview

“Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide to Writing, which is smart, helpful, and even fun to read.” —Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

Key Features

    —A coil-bound reference text suitable for a range of introductory composition and writing courses
    —Divided into three sections:
      Writing Processes (including Research, Argumentation, and Style)
      Writing Mechanics (Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation)
      Writing Contexts (Writing in different academic disciplines, Forms and conventions, and citation)

    —Comprehensive treatment of citation style guides, with 2016 MLA style updates
    —Expanded treatment of research methods, argument structures, and writing in the workplace
    —A unique section on “How to Be Good With Words”—issues of gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
    —Expanded coverage for those whose native language is not English
    —All-new chapter on reading images
    —Extensive companion website featuring interactive exercises

Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. That does not change with the new edition; what does change and stay up-to-date is the content of the book. The sixth edition brings a substantial re-organization of the contents under three headings: Writing Processes, Writing Mechanics, and Writing Contexts. Coverage of APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded, and the MLA section has now been fully revised to take into account all the 2016 changes. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, of paragraphing; of how to integrate quoted material into one’s own work; of balance and parallelism; and of issues of gender, race, religion etc. in writing. The chapter “Seeing and Meaning: Reading (and Writing About) Visual Images” is entirely new to the sixth edition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781554813131
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 05/30/2017
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 760
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Corey Frost, formerly Coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Brooklyn College, is now a professor in the English Department at New Jersey City University. Karen Weingarten is a professor in the Department of English at Queens College, City University of New York; a former co-Coordinator of the Introductory English program, she is also the author of Abortion in the American Imagination. Doug Babington, an Emeritus Professor in the English Department at Queen’s University, was for many years Director of the Writing Centre there. Don LePan’s other books include The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms, How to Be Good With Words, and two novels, Animals and Rising Stories. Maureen Okun is a professor in both the English and the Liberal Studies Departments at Vancouver Island University; her books include Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: Selections and The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book and Its Companion Website
Preface to the Sixth Edition

WRITING PROCESS

P1 Getting Started

    P1.1 Attitude and Voice
    P1.2 Academic Style
    P1.3 Audience
    P1.4 Purpose
    P1.5 Focus
    P1.6 Discovery
    P1.7 Writer’s Block
    P1.8 Research
    P1.9 Finding Sources
    P1.10 Evaluating Sources
P2 Making Sense
    P2.1 Argument
    P2.2 Logic
    P2.3 Fallacies
    P2.4 Thesis
    P2.5 Organization
    P2.6 Modes of Writing
    P2.7 Logical Fluency
    P2.8 Your Arguments, Others’ Arguments
    P2.9 Incorporating Sources through Summary, Paraphrase, and Question
    P2.10 Plagiarism
    P2.11 Citation
P3 Improving Style
    P3.1 Stylistic Fluency
    P3.2 Diction
    P3.3 Syntax
    P3.4 Rhythm
    P3.5 Figures of Speech
    P3.6 Voice
    P3.7 Tone
    P3.8 Revision and Proofreading
    P3.9 Writing by Computer

SPECIAL TOPIC
How to Be Good with Words

WRITING MECHANICS

M1 Grammar
    M1.1 “Right” and “Wrong”
    M1.2 Parts of Speech
    M1.3 Parts of Sentences
    M1.4 Verb Forms
    M1.5 Mood and Voice
    M1.6 Sentence Combining: How to Build Sentences
M2 Usage
    M2.1 Verb Issues
    M2.2 Preposition Issues
    M2.3 Noun and Pronoun Issues
    M2.4 Word Order
    M2.5 Word Meanings
    M2.6 Part-of-Speech Conversions
    M2.7 Slang
    M2.8 Word Conventions
    M2.9 Joining Words
    M2.10 Wordiness
    M2.11 National Variants
M3 Punctuation and Other Conventions
    M3.1 Punctuation Marks
    M3.2 Quotations
    M3.3 Capitalization
    M3.4 Abbreviations
    M3.5 Spelling

M4 EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English

SPECIAL TOPIC
Seeing and Meaning

WRITING CONTEXTS

C1 Writing Across the Disciplines
    C1.1 Different Subjects, Different Styles
    C1.2 English Studies
    C1.3 Humanities
    C1.4 Natural and Applied Sciences
    C1.5 Social Sciences
    C1.6 Business and Commerce
C2 Forms and Conventions
    C2.1 The Meanings of Texts
    C2.2 Meaning and Form in Literature
    C2.3 The Text in the Present Tense
    C2.4 Authors and Speakers
    C2.5 The Scientific Research Paper
    C2.6 Scientific Tone
    C2.7 First Person and Active Voice
    C2.8 Writing in the Workplace
    C2.9 Examinations and In-class Essays
C3 Style Guides
    C3.1 MLA Style
    C3.2 APA Style
    C3.3 Chicago Style
    C3.4 CSE Style

Appendix 1: Correction Key
Appendix 2: Essay Checklist

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