The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students - Fourth Edition
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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 key grammatical points; a glossary of usage; advice on various forms of academic writing; coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics; helpful advice on how to research academic papers; and much more. Four commonly-used styles of citation and documentation are covered--MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE.
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Persons
Corey Frost, formerly Coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Brooklyn College, is now a professor in the English Department at New Jersey City University.
Karen Weingarten is a professor in the Department of English at Queens College, City University of New York; a former co-Coordinator of the Introductory English program, she is also the author of Abortion in the American Imagination.
Doug Babington was until recently Director of the Writing Centre at Queen's University, and the author of articles both on writing and on literature.
Don LePan's other books include The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms (2013) and Rising Stories: A Novel (2015).
Maureen Okun is a professor in both the English and the Liberal Studies Departments at Vancouver Island University; her most recent book is an edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur: Selections (2014).
Nora Ruddock is Developmental Editor at Broadview Press and co-author of The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation 2e (2016).
Content
- Be as Clear and Specific as Possible
- Watch for Redundancy
- Avoid Wordiness
- Watch for Missing Parts
- Choose the Best Verb
- Connect Your Ideas Clearly
- Paragraphing
- Joining Words
- Order and Weight Your Ideas According to Their Importance
- Watch for Ambiguity
- Illogical or Confused Connections
- Making Your Writing Consistent
- Agreement among the Grammatical Parts of Your Writing
- Watch for Mixed Metaphors
- Rhythm, Variety, Balance, and Parallelism
- CONTEXTS OF WRITING
- Academic Writing: Essays and Arguments
- From Topic to Thesis Statement
- The Nature of Argument
- Argument Structure and Paragraphing
- Your Arguments, Others' Arguments
- Styles and Disciplines
- The Language of Academic Writing
- Writing about Literature / Writing about Texts
- Writing about Science
- Business and Professional Writing
- Slang and Informal English
- The Social Context
- Gender
- Race and Ethnicity, Class, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Disability, etc.
- Bias-free Vocabulary: A Short List
- GRAMMAR
- Basic Grammar: An Outline
- Parts of Speech
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Articles
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs
- Parts of Sentences
- Subject
- Object
- Predicate
- Clauses and Phrases
- Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence
- Verbs and Verb Tense Difficulties
- The Infinitive
- The Simple Present Tense
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Historical Present
- Survey of Verb Tenses
- Voice
- Mood
- Combining Verb Tenses: Some Challenges
- The Past Perfect Tense
- Combining Tenses-Quoted Material
- Irregular Verbs
- Dangling Constructions
- Nouns and Pronouns
- Singular and Plural Nouns
- Singular Pronouns
- Unreferenced or Wrongly Referenced Pronouns
- Subject and Object Pronouns
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Comparatives and Superlatives
- Sentence Fragments / Incomplete Sentences
- Comma Splices / Run-on Sentences
- EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English
- Articles
- Frequently Used Non-count Nouns
- Continuous Verb Tenses
- Omission or Repetition of the Subjec
- The Conditional
- PUNCTUATION
- The Period
- The Comma
- Commas and Non-restrictive Elements
- That and Which
- Extra Comma
- Commas and Lists
- The Question Mark
- The Exclamation Mark
- The Semi-Colon
- The Colon
- The Hyphen
- The Dash
- Parentheses
- Square Brackets
- The Apostrophe
- Contractions
- Possession
- Quotation Marks
- Other Uses of Quotation Marks
- Misuse of Quotation Marks to Indicate Emphasis
- Single Quotation Marks
- Direct and Indirect Speech
- Ellipses
- FORMAT AND SPELLING
- Capitalization
- Abbreviations
- Titles
- Academic and Business Terms
- Latin Abbreviations
- Numbers
- Italics
- Spelling
- Spell-Check
- Spelling and Sound
- American Spelling, British Spelling, Canadian Spelling
- Other Spelling Mistakes
- RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
- Approaches to Research
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Citation and Documentation
- Incorporating Sources
- Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting Directly
- Formatting Quotations
- Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
- Signal Phrases
- MLA Style
- About MLA In-Text Citations
- About Works Cited
- MLA Core Elements
- Examples
- MLA Style Sample Essay Page
- APA Style
- Incorporating Sources in APA Style
- Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting Directly
- Formatting Quotations
- Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
- Signal Phrases
- About In-text Citations
- About References
- APA Style Sample Essay Pages
- Chicago Style
- About Chicago Style
- Chicago Style Sample
- CSE Style
- CSE Style Samples
- GLOSSARY OF USAGE
- CORRECTION KEY
- INDEX