The Broadview Guide to Writing - Seventh Canadian Edition - Softcover

Babington, Doug; Frost, Corey; LePan, Don; Okun, Maureen; Ruddock, Nora; Weingarten, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554815401 ISBN 13: 9781554815401

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2022

Synopsis

For the seventh edition, The Broadview Guide to Writing has been reorganized into three broad sections (writing processes, writing mechanics, and writing contexts). The material on argument has been expanded and revised; two new sample essays in MLA style have been added; and the material on researching and writing academic essays has been fully rewritten. Coverage of informal and personal writing is included for the first time.

Features of The Broadview Guide to Writing

• • Extensive treatment of research methods and argument
• • Wide-ranging treatment of writing styles in different academic disciplines
• • A full chapter on inclusive language, including issues relating to gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
• • Companion website featuring a wide range of interactive exercises

Features New to the Seventh Edition

• • Fully updated coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles
• • Expanded treatment of inclusive language
• • All-new interdisciplinary and English literature sample essays
• • All-new material on personal and informal writing
• • New instructor's website providing sample syllabi and lesson plans, as well as additional grammar exercises

About this title

About the Author

Doug Babington, an Emeritus Professor in the English Department at Queen’s University, was for many years Director of the Writing Centre there. 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. 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. Nora Ruddock is a Developmental Editor at Broadview Press and co-author of The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation 2e. 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.

From the Back Cover

For the seventh edition, The Broadview Guide to Writing has been reorganized into three broad sections (writing processes, writing mechanics, and writing contexts). The material on argument has been expanded and revised; two new sample essays in MLA style have been added; and the material on researching and writing academic essays has been fully rewritten. Coverage of informal and personal writing is included for the first time.

Features of The Broadview Guide to Writing

• • Extensive treatment of research methods and argument
• • Wide-ranging treatment of writing styles in different academic disciplines
• • A full chapter on inclusive language, including issues relating to gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
• • Companion website featuring a wide range of interactive exercises

Features New to the Seventh Edition

• • Fully updated coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles
• • Expanded treatment of inclusive language
• • All-new interdisciplinary and English literature sample essays
• • All-new material on personal and informal writing
• • New instructor's website providing sample syllabi and lesson plans, as well as additional grammar exercises

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554815401
• ISBN 13: 9781554815401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848