Full Description
"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.
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
