Writing and Composition

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  • 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

    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

    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 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

    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

    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

    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 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

    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 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 incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been…

  • 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

    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 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 offers full coverage of such common mistakes as commas splices, sentence fragments, words frequently confused, words frequently…

  • 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 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

    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…

  • Burning Brightly

    Burning Brightly is the first full-length book treatment of professional storytelling in North America today. For some years there has been a major storytelling revival…

  • The Broadview Reader – Third Edition

    This new edition includes most of the essays that have made The Broadview Reader one of the most popular first-year textbooks in Canada, and adds…

  • Counterbalance

    Like other composition readers, Counterbalance has as its primary purpose to improve thinking, reading and writing skills, recognizing throughout the degree to which these are…

  • 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…