The Broadview Guide to Writing 2/e - Softcover

Babington; LePan, Don; Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551114240 ISBN 13: 9781551114248

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2001

Synopsis

The Broadview Guide to Writing is a concise yet uncommonly thorough text with a fresh approach to the craft of essay writing. The first part of the book discusses the style and structure of essay writing, and includes a useful discussion of the intangibles involved in the writing processā??such as confidence, perseverance, and a willingness to deal with criticism constructively. The second part of the book provides thorough coverage of grammar and usage in a comprehensive reference guide, ranging from the simplest mechanical issues (such as subject verb agreement) to subtle distinctions between words that have similar meanings. A wide range of examples is included throughout the book.The fifth edition incorporates the 2008 changes to MLA Style guidelines for documentation and includes a number of other changes that make it far better suited than previous editions to the needs of American writers in the twenty-first century.

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From the Publisher

Key Features:

new convenient format; ring binding, cardboard section dividers, and vertical margin headings for ready reference; entries now numbered within each section all-new section on business writing expanded and updated section on writing by computer expanded coverage of MLA style coverage of CBE as well as APA and Chicago styles new section discussing the issue of correctness in grammar and usage full range of examples throughout exercises now provided in an accompanying book rather than in the text itself full discussion of the process of writing and researching essays sample essay used as example of writing as well as of format a full section on bias-free language, providing fuller treatment of this topic and why it is important than does any other introductory writing guide includes a discussion of writing about literature a fuller treatment of using connectives than in competing texts appendix providing a full introduction to basic English grammar appendix listing national variations priced at about half that of leading competitors

About the Author

Doug Babington is Director of the Writing Centre at Queen's University, and the author of articles both on writing and on literature; Don LePan is the author of The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture (Macmillan, 1989) and of The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English (5th edition 2003); Maureen Okun is a professor in both the Liberal Studies Department and the English Department at Vancouver Island University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1551114240
• ISBN 13: 9781551114248
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 413