Handbooks and Writing Guides
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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 Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition
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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Speaking of Writing: A Brief Rhetoric
Can a writing textbook inform and entertain? Can a very brief rhetoric also function as a stand-alone guide to college writing? Yes and yes. Speaking…
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The Argument Handbook
The Argument Handbook is a reference tool and classroom text designed to help students understand complex rhetorical situations and navigate the process of transforming private…
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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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A Writer’s Handbook – Fourth Edition
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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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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Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students—with MLA 2016 Update
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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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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The Broadview Guide to Writing – Revised Canadian Sixth Edition
Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format,…
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The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing – Revised Fourth Canadian Edition
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing is a concise volume presenting essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are summaries of key…
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The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation – Second Edition
Compact and convenient, The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation includes information on MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of citation and documentation. The…
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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 for Today’s Healthcare Audiences
Primarily designed for students seeking careers in healthcare communication, this book also serves as a useful guide for nascent practitioners. Healthcare writing audiences are diversifying,…
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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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Writing Essays About Literature
This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process…
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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…