The Broadview Guide to Writing

- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK AND ITS COMPANION WEBSITE
- PREFACE TO THE SIXTH CANADIAN EDITION
- INTRODUCTION
- THE WRITING PROCESS
- Voice Work
- Attitude
- Audience
- Purpose: From Topic to Thesis Statement
- Before the Writing Starts: Essential Activities
- Reading and Note-Taking
- Mapping
- Writer's Block
- Dialogue
- Logical Fluency: The Nature of Argument
- Argument Structure, Paragraphing, and Topic Sentences
- Organizing Paragraphs in Longer Essays
- Your Arguments, Others' Arguments
- Logical Fluency: Modes of Writing, Modes of Thought
- Elaboration and Repetition
- Modes of Thought/Modes of Writing
- Narration
- Classification
- Generalization and Abstraction
- Cause, Reasons, Explanations
- Combining Modes of Thought
- Reasoning
- Subordination
- Connectives
- Stylistic Fluency
- Diction
- Figures Of Speech
- Syntax
- Rhythm
- Voice
- Tone
- Revision and Proofreading
- Collaboration and Research
- Approaches to Research
- Citation
- Criticism
- Examinations and In-class Essays

- BASIC GRAMMAR: AN OUTLINE
- Parts of Speech
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Articles
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs
Parts of Sentences
- Subject
- Object
- Predicate
- Clause
- Phrase
- Types of Clauses
- Types of Subordinate Clauses
- Types of Phrases
- Distinguishing Phrases and Clauses
- Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence

- WRITING GRAMMATICALLY
- Right and Wrong in Writing
- Verbs Problems
- Verbs and Verb Tense Difficulties
- The Infinitive
- The Simple Present Tense
- The Present Progressive (or Continuous) Tense
- The Simple Past Tense
- The Past Progressive (or Continuous) Tense
- The Simple Future Tense
- The Future Progressive (or Continuous) Tense
- The Perfect Tenses
- The Present Perfect Tense
- The Past Perfect Tense
- The Future Perfect Tense
- Other Tenses
- Mood: Indicative, Imperative, and Subjunctive
- The Conditional
- The Past Conditional
- Active and Passive Voice
- Dangling Constructions
- Dangling Participles and Infinitives
- Sequence of Tenses
- Irregular or Difficult Verbs
- Infinitives, Gerunds, Objects: ""To Be or Not to Be?""
- Preposition Problems ""Up With Which I will Not Put""
- Nouns and Pronouns: Singular Difficulties
- Pronouns: Who Cares About Whom?
- Part of Speech Confusion: A Question of Principle?

- WORDS
- Word Order Problems
- One Word or Two?
- Word Meanings: Are Cars Ever Stationery?
- Usage: Word Conventions

- PUTTING IDEAS TOGETHER
- Paragraphing
- In Narration
- In Description
- In Persuasion or Argument
- Argument
- Fallacies and Faulty Arguments
- Joining Words
- Words to Connect Ideas That Are Opposed to Each Other
- Words to Join Linked or Supporting Ideas
- Words Used to Introduce Causes or Reasons
- Words Used to Introduce Results or Conclusions
- Words Used to Express Purpose
- Words Used to Introduce Examples
- Words Used to Introduce Alternatives
- Words Used to Show Degree or Extent
- That and Which
- Words Used to Make Comparisons
- Other Joining Words and Expressions
- Sentence Combining
- Combining
- Joining Kernels
- Embedding Kernels
- Abbreviated Kernels Joined as Absolute Phrases
- Abbreviated Kernels Embedded as Verb and Noun Phrases
- Abbreviated Kernels Embedded as Modifiers
- Combining and Recombining
- Combining Several Kernels into a Single Sentence
- "De-Combining" and Recombining
- Help with Some Grammatical Errors: Two More Examples
- Dangling Modifiers
- Syntactic Ambiguity
- Help with Reading Challenging Texts
- Gaining Awareness of Writing Style

- STYLE
- Slang and Informal English
- Wordiness
- Writing By Computer
- Spell-check and Grammar-check
- Observing Online Etiquette
- Point-form Online Etiquette
- Copyright and the Web
- Business Writing
- How to Be Good with Words: Styles of Writing When Considering Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Class, Religion, Sexual Orientation, and Disability
- Bias-free Vocabulary: A Short List

- ACADEMIC WRITING
- Writing about Literature / Writing About Texts
- The Meanings of Texts
- Meaning and Form in Literature
- Writing about Texts: Particular Problems
- Writing About Science
- Structure of the Research Paper
- Scientific Tone and Stylistic Choices
- The First Person and the Active Voice
- Across the Disciplines: Different Subjects, Different Styles of Academic Writing
- Anthropology
- Art History
- Biology
- Business and Commerce
- Chemistry
- Economics
- Engineering
- English Studies
- History
- Medicine and Health Studies
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Politics
- Psychology
- Sociology

- SEEING AND MEANING

- EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English Frequently Used Non-count Nouns

- PUNCTUATION, FORMAT, AND SPELLING
- Punctuation
- The Period
- The Ellipsis
- The Comma
- The Question Mark
- The Exclamation Mark
- The Semicolon
- The Colon
- The Hyphen
- The Dash
- Parentheses
- Square Brackets
- The Apostrophe
- Quotation Marks
- Single Quotation Marks
- Direct and Indirect Speech
- Direct Speech
- Indirect Speech
- Format and Spelling
- Capitalization
- Abbreviations
- Spelling
- Spelling and Sound

- DOCUMENTATION AND RESEARCH
- Avoiding Plagiarism-and Choosing When and What to Quote
- Citation and Documentation
- Incorporating Sources
- Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting Directly
- Formatting Quotations
- Short Prose Quotations
- Long Prose Quotations
- Verse Quotations
- Quotations within Quotations
- Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
- Using square brackets to add to a quotation
- Using an ellipsis to delete from a quotation
- Integrating Quotations
- Avoiding "dumped" quotations
- Signal Phrases

- MLA STYLE
- - About MLA In-Text Citations
- About Works Cited
- MLA Core Elements
- Examples
- MLA Style Sample Essay

- APA STYLE
- Incorporating Sources in APA Style
- Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting Directly
- Signal Phrases
- About In-text Citations
- About References
- APA Style Sample Essay

- CHICAGO STYLE
- About Chicago Style
- Chicago Style Style Sample

- CSE STYLE
- CSE Style Sample

- APPENDIX 1: CORRECTION KEY
- APPENDIX 2: SOME NATIONAL VARIATIONS
- APPENDIX 3: ESSAY CHECKLIST

- PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX