The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students

Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide to Writing, which is smart, helpful, and even fun to read. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

Key Features

• A coil-bound reference text suitable for a range of introductory composition and writing courses
  Divided into three sections:
  
  • Writing Processes (including Research, Argumentation, and Style)
    Writing Mechanics (Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation)
    Writing Contexts (Writing in different academic disciplines, Forms and conventions, and citation)
  
  Comprehensive treatment of citation style guides, with 2016 MLA style updates
  Expanded treatment of research methods, argument structures, and writing in the workplace
  A unique section on How to Be Good With Wordsissues of gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
  Expanded coverage for those whose native language is not English
  All-new chapter on reading images
  Extensive companion website featuring interactive exercises
  

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. That does not change with the new edition; what does change and stay up-to-date is the content of the book. The sixth edition brings a substantial re-organization of the contents under three headings: Writing Processes, Writing Mechanics, and Writing Contexts. Coverage of APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded, and 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, of paragraphing; of how to integrate quoted material into ones 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 to the sixth edition.