Handbooks and Writing Guides
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students – Second Edition
Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise,…
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Joining the Dialogue: Practices for Ethical Research Writing
Joining the Dialogue offers an exciting new approach for teaching academic research writing to introductory students by drawing on communication ethics. Holding to the current…
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Who’s Your Source?
While students today have access to more sources of information than ever before, they are not necessarily equipped to make informed judgments about those sources.…
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The Argument Handbook
The Argument Handbook is a classroom text for first-year composition that is designed to help students understand complex rhetorical situations and navigate the process of…
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Focus on Writing
This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what…
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The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture
Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these…
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The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students – Fourth Edition
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are summaries of…
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The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students – Sixth Edition
“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…
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How to Be Good with Words
In recent decades, the contested areas of English usage have grown both larger and more numerous. English speakers argue about whether we should say man…
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Healthcare Writing
Notable for its use of real document examples drawn from actual healthcare settings, in addition to its central section’s extended focus on narrative medicine and…
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Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays
How does one help undergraduate students learn quickly how to produce effectively organized, persuasive, well-reasoned essays? This book offers a straightforward, systematic introduction to some…
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Writing about Literature – Second Edition
Writing about Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary…
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The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English – Fifth Edition
The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English offers full coverage of such common mistakes as commas splices, sentence fragments, words frequently confused, words frequently…
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The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English – ESL Edition
The ESL edition of Common Errors in English offers a comprehensive survey of the sorts of difficulties second language learners most often experience with English—and…