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The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are key grammatical points, a glossary of usage, advice on various forms of academic writing, coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics, and helpful advice on how to research academic papers. MLA, APA, and Chicago styles of citation and documentation are covered, and each has been revised to include the latest updates. A companion website provides a wealth of interactive exercises, information on the CSE style of citation and documentation, and much more.

Features

Features of The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing
  • • Extensive treatment of research methods and argument
  • • Wide-ranging treatment of writing styles in different academic disciplines
  • • Printed in two colours and coil-bound for ease of use, yet reasonably priced, with fewer bells and whistles than any leading competitor—and more of what students need to know
  • • Companion student website featuring a wide range of interactive exercises
Features New to the Fifth Edition
  • • Fully updated coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles
  • • Expanded treatment of bias-free language—issues of gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
  • • All-new material on personal and informal writing
  • • Revised and expanded section on email etiquette and related topics
  • • New instructor’s website providing sample syllabi and lesson plans, as well as additional grammar exercises


Table of Contents:
STYLES OF WRITING: AN OVERVIEW
  • Choosing the Best Words
    • Be as Clear and Specific as Possible
    • Watch for Redundancy
    • Avoid Wordiness
    • Watch for Missing Parts
    • Choose the Best Verb
  • Connect Your Ideas Clearly
    • Paragraphing
    • Joining Words
    • Order and Weight Your Ideas According to Their Importance
    • Watch for Ambiguity
    • Illogical or Confused Connections
  • Making Your Writing Consistent
    • Agreement among the Grammatical Parts of Your Writing
    • Watch for Mixed Metaphors
    • Rhythm, Variety, Balance, and Parallelism
CONTEXTS OF WRITING
  • Academic Writing: Essays and Arguments
    • From Topic to Thesis Statement
    • The Nature of Argument
    • Argument Structure and Paragraphing
    • Your Arguments, Others’ Arguments
  • Styles and Disciplines
    • The Language of Academic Writing
    • Writing about Literature / Writing about Texts
    • Writing about Science
    • Writing in the Workplace
    • Slang and Informal English
  • The Social Context: Bias-Free Language
    • Gender
    • Race and Ethnicity, Class, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Disability, etc.
    • Bias-free Vocabulary: A Short List
GRAMMAR
  • Basic Grammar: An Outline
  • Parts of Speech
    • Nouns
    • Pronouns
    • Articles
    • Adjectives
    • Verbs
    • Adverbs
    • Prepositions
    • Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs
  • Parts of Sentences
    • Subject
    • Object
    • Predicate
    • Clauses and Phrases
    • Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence
  • Verbs and Verb Tense Difficulties
    • The Infinitive
    • The Simple Present Tense
    • Subject-Verb Agreement
    • Historical Present
    • Survey of Verb Tenses
    • Voice
    • Mood
    • Combining Verb Tenses: Some Challenges
    • The Past Perfect Tense
    • Combining Tenses—Quoted Material
    • Irregular Verbs
  • Dangling Constructions
  • Noun and Pronoun Difficulties
    • Singular and Plural Nouns
    • Singular Pronouns
    • Unreferenced or Wrongly Referenced Pronouns
    • Subject and Object Pronouns
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
    • Comparatives and Superlatives
  • Incomplete Sentences (Sentence Fragments)
  • Run-on Sentences
  • EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English
    • Articles (and Other Determiners)
    • Frequently Used Non-count Nouns
    • Continuous Verb Tenses
    • Omission or Repetition of the Subject
    • The Conditional
    • Word Order
PUNCTUATION
  • The Period
  • The Comma
    • Commas and Non-restrictive Elements
    • That and Which
    • Extra Comma
    • Commas and Lists
  • The Question Mark
  • The Exclamation Mark
  • The Semi-Colon
  • The Colon
  • The Hyphen
  • The Dash
  • Parentheses
  • Square Brackets
  • The Apostrophe
    • Contractions
    • Possession
  • Quotation Marks
    • Other Uses of Quotation Marks
    • Misuse of Quotation Marks to Indicate Emphasis
    • Single Quotation Marks
    • Direct and Indirect Speech
  • Ellipses
FORMAT AND SPELLING
  • Capitalization
  • Abbreviations
    • Titles
    • Academic and Business Terms
    • Latin Abbreviations
  • Numbers
  • Italics
  • Spelling
    • Spell-Check
    • Spelling and Sound
    • American Spelling, British Spelling, Canadian Spelling
    • Other Spelling Mistakes
RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
  • Approaches to Research
  • Avoiding Plagiarism
  • Citation and Documentation
    • Incorporating Sources
    • Summarizing
    • Paraphrasing
    • Quoting Directly
    • Formatting Quotations
    • Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
    • Signal Phrases
  • MLA Style
    • About In-Text Citations
    • About Works Cited: MLA Core Elements
    • Examples
    • MLA Style Sample Essay Page
  • APA Style
    • Incorporating Sources in APA Style
    • Summarizing
    • Paraphrasing
    • Quoting Directly
    • Formatting Quotations
    • Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
    • Signal Phrases
    • About In-text Citations
    • About References
    • APA Style Sample Essay Pages
  • Chicago Style
    • About Chicago Style
    • Chicago Style Sample
  • CSE Style
    • CSE Style Samples

GLOSSARY OF USAGE

CORRECTION KEY

INDEX


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781460407639
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • No of Pages: 277
  • ISBN-10: 1460407636
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2023
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English


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