Writing and Composition

  • How to Be Good with Words

    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…

  • Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction

    Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction

    Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn’t…

  • The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose - Third Edition

    The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose – Third Edition

    The third edition of this anthology has been substantially revised and updated for a contemporary American audience; a selection of classic essays from earlier eras…

  • Healthcare Writing

    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…

  • Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide and Anthology

    Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide and Anthology

    Write Moves is an invitation for the student to understand and experience creative writing in the larger frame of humanities education. The practical instruction offered…

  • Academic Writing, Real World Topics - Concise Edition

    Academic Writing, Real World Topics – Concise Edition

    Academic Writing, Real World Topics fills a void in the writing-across-the-curriculum textbook market. It draws together articles and essays of actual academic prose as opposed…

  • Academic Writing, Real World Topics

    Academic Writing, Real World Topics

    Academic Writing, Real World Topics fills a void in the writing-across-the-curriculum textbook market. It draws together articles and essays of actual academic prose as opposed…

  • Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays

    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…

  • Templates

    Templates

    Beginning with the simple two-word sentence and working up to multi-clause possibilities, Templates shows students how to manipulate syntactic patterns for maximum rhetorical effect. Although…

  • Arguing with People

    Arguing with People

    Arguing with People brings developments from the field of Argumentation Theory to bear on critical thinking in a clear and accessible way. This book expands…

  • Science and Society

    Science and Society

    Developed for use in college and university courses, Science and Society provides a broad selection of science writing intended to help students think critically about…

  • The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms

    The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms

    This compact guide covers a wide variety of terms commonly used in academic discussions of poetry, fiction, drama, rhetoric, and literary theory. Definitions are kept…

  • Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

    Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion – Second Edition

    This book develops a sophisticated account of propaganda and its intriguing history. It begins with a brief overview of Western propaganda, including Ancient Greek theories…

  • Writing about Literature - Second Edition

    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…

  • Understanding the Essay

    Understanding the Essay

    This is a book on how to read the essay, one that demonstrates how reading is inextricably tied to the art of writing. It aims…

  • A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (US)

    A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication – Second Edition (US)

    A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers, to enable them to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These…

  • A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (Canadian)

    A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication – Second Edition (Canadian)

    A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been…

  • Clear Writing

    Clear Writing

    Clear Writing is a compact, varied, and very readable collection of prose, designed to provide models of excellent and engaging writing for courses in rhetoric,…

  • Modern English Structures Workbook - Second Edition

    Modern English Structures Workbook – Second Edition

    The Modern English Structures Workbook parallels the text, Modern English Structures, and provides useful training both in memorization and in higher-order thinking skills.

  • Modern English Structures - Second Edition

    Modern English Structures – Second Edition

    Modern English Structures is a clear and accessible text that follows a structural approach to teaching basic English grammar. The book is divided into three…

  • The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English - Fifth Edition

    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…

  • Academic Reading - Second Edition

    Academic Reading – Second Edition

    This reader has been designed to accompany Giltrow’s Academic Writing, one of the key principles of which is that there is a close connection between…

  • Academic Writing - Third Edition

    Academic Writing – Third Edition

    Academic Writing is a unique introduction to the subject. As the author puts it in her preface, “this book develops from a strong claim: namely,…

  • Visions and Revisions

    Visions and Revisions

    This anthology takes a unique approach to the process of poetry. Each poem included in the book is followed by at least one earlier draft…