Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing - Canadian Edition

STYLES 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
Writing in the Workplace
Slang and Informal English


The Social Context: Bias-Free Language

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
Noun and Pronoun Difficulties

Singular and Plural Nouns
Singular Pronouns
Unreferenced or Wrongly Referenced Pronouns
Subject and Object Pronouns


Adjectives and Adverbs

Comparatives and Superlatives


Incomplete Sentences (Sentence Fragments)
Run-on Sentences
EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English

Articles (and Other Determiners)
Frequently Used Non-count Nouns
Continuous Verb Tenses
Omission or Repetition of the Subject
The Conditional
Word Order



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 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

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college writing; composition; academic writing