Writing and Composition

Composition Books Under $40

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    Writing on Fire

    What’s the best way to write a paper that analyzes a novel, a poem, a work of art, a film, or a set of historical…

  • Academic Writing Now – with Readings

    Academic Writing Now with Readings is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Anything inessential…

  • The Broadview Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

    For many years, the coverage of grammar and usage in The Broadview Guide to Writing has received particular praise. Now, for the first time, that…

  • Black in America – Second Edition

    Black in America samples the breadth of nonfiction writing on African American experiences in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. The…

  • The Essays Only You Can Write

    The Essays Only You Can Write offers a perspective on essay writing that spotlights a writer’s uniqueness. Resisting the perception that personal and academic writing…

  • The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition – MLA 2021 Update

    Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay…

  • AI and Writing

    AI and Writing is an introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and its emergent role as a tool for academic, professional, civic, and personal writing.…

  • The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing – Fifth Canadian Edition

    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,…

  • A New Form-Function Grammar of English

    This book approaches the structure of English from a form-function perspective that is both theoretical and practical. It asks learners to consider meaning, structure, and…

  • The Broadview Guide to Writing – Seventh Canadian Edition

    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…

  • Speaking of Writing: A Brief Rhetoric – with MLA 2021 Update

    Co-authored by a novelist and a scholar, Speaking of Writing follows four college students from diverse backgrounds as they face the challenges of reading, writing,…

  • Soundwriting

    Written in an encouraging and accessible way, this unique textbook is about how to compose with sound—how to make powerful podcast episodes, audio essays, personal…

  • Writing for Today’s Healthcare Audiences – Second Edition

    This reorganized and updated edition of Writing for Today’s Healthcare Audiences provides new digital supports for students and course instructors. Designed primarily for students seeking…

  • Style and Substance: A Guide to Finding and Joining the Academic Conversation

    Style & Substance demystifies academic conversations by breaking down the underlying concepts behind good scholarship and the skills involved in research, writing, and presenting. The…

  • The New Journalist’s Guide to Freelancing

    Freelancers make up one of the fastest-growing groups of workers in North America. But, in today’s fractured and quick-paced media industry, where do you start?…

  • Crafting Poems and Stories

    Crafting Poems and Stories is an inspiring new guide to creative writing. Comprehensive in its treatment of poetry and fiction, this book offers the features…

  • A Writer’s Handbook – Fourth Edition With MLA 2021 Update

    Written collaboratively by writing instructors at the Queen’s University Writing Centre, A Writer’s Handbook is a compact yet thorough guide to academic writing for a…

  • Argumentative Essays: A Step-by-Step Guide

    This brief spiral-bound booklet provides a portable, scannable, and simple guide to the basics of argumentative essay writing. Designed to complement in-depth classroom instruction, it…

  • The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation – Third Edition

    Compact and convenient, The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation, Third Edition includes information on MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of citation and…

  • Grammar by Diagram: Workbook – Third Edition

    Grammar by Diagram is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool,…

  • Grammar by Diagram – Third Edition

    Grammar by Diagram is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool,…

  • Digital Writing

    This concise guidebook offers a rhetorical framework for writing and analyzing content for social media and the web. In the age of disinformation and hyper-targeted…

  • The Argument Toolbox

    Drawing on the pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and student editor insights of The Argument Handbook, The Argument Toolbox is a very concise resource designed to help…

  • A Writing Studies Primer

    Writing is omnipresent in our lives, yet we too rarely stop and consider its history, tools, technologies, and mythologies. This volume introduces student readers to…