The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing
Revised Fourth Canadian Edition
4th Edition
Published on 30. December 2016
Book
Spiral bound
344 pages
978-1-55481-336-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 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. For the fourth edition the coverage of APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded; the MLA section has now been fully revised to take into account all the 2016 changes. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, and of issues in writing related to gender, race, class, religion sexual orientation, etc. 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 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. For the fourth edition the coverage of APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded; the MLA section has now been fully revised to take into account all the 2016 changes. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, and of issues in writing related to gender, race, class, religion sexual orientation, etc.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Peterborough
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Weight
283 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55481-336-0 (9781554813360)
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Persons
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
- How to Use This Book and Its Companion WebsiteSTYLES OF WRITING: AN OVERVIEW - Choosing the Best Words
- 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
- 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