The Broadview Guide to Writing - Softcover

Babington, Doug; LePan, Don; Okun, Maureen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554812186 ISBN 13: 9781554812189

Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. For the sixth edition the coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded as well as updated. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, of paragraphing; of how to integrate quoted material into one’s own work; of balance and parallelism; and of issues of gender, race, religion etc. in writing. The chapter “Seeing and Meaning: Reading (and Writing About) Visual Images” is entirely new. The online materials―including the selection of interactive exercises―have also been revised considerably.

About this title

About the Author

Doug Babington was until recently Director of the Writing Centre at Queen’s University, Canada, and the author of articles both on writing and on literature.

Don LePan’s other books include The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms (Broadview, 2013) and Animals: A Novel (Soft Skull/Counterpoint, 2010)

Maureen Okun is a professor in both the English and the Liberal Studies Departments at Vancouver Island University, Canada; her most recent book is an edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur: Selections (Broadview, 2014).

From the Back Cover

Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. For the sixth edition the coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded as well as updated. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, of paragraphing; of how to integrate quoted material into one s own work; of balance and parallelism; and of issues of gender, race, religion etc. in writing. The chapter Seeing and Meaning: Reading (and Writing About) Visual Images is entirely new. The online materials including the selection of interactive exercises have also been revised considerably.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554812186
• ISBN 13: 9781554812189
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 630