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  • How to Read: A Twenty-First-Century Guide

    by Don LePan, Corey Frost, Maureen Okun ...
    "profoundly relevant and accessible …. An insightful, valuable resource." — Kirkus ReviewsWith reading having become more difficult for many than ever before, universities and colleges are focusing increasingly on the degree to which reading and writing skills are interconnected and are revising their curricula accordingly. This book aims to help.Using examples from a wide range of academic ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Broadview Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

    The Mechanics of Good Writing

    by Corey Frost, Karen Weingarten, Doug Babington, Don LePan, Maureen Okun ...
    For many years, the coverage of grammar and usage in The Broadview Guide to Writing has received particular praise. Now, for the first time, that material is made available in a stand-alone volume. Readable, reliable, and comprehensive, The Broadview Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is appropriate for students at all post-secondary levels.The book is divided into four sections. The Grammar ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing - Fifth Canadian Edition

    by Doug Babington, Corey Frost, Don LePan, Maureen Okun, Nora Ruddock, Karen Weingarten, Laura Buzzard ...
    The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are key grammatical points, a glossary of usage, advice on various forms of academic writing, coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics, and helpful advice on how to research academic papers. MLA, APA, and Chicago styles of citation and documentation are covered, and each has ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students - Fourth Edition

    by Corey Frost, Karen Weingarten, Doug Babington, Don LePan, Maureen Okun, Nora Ruddock ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Sense of Style

    The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

    by Steven Pinker ...
    “Charming and erudite," from the author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now, "The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem.” —Time.comWhy is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing—and why should we care? From the author of The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Write Right!

    A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style

    by Jan Venolia ...
    The newest edition of Jan Venolia’s best-selling guide, Write Right! is an essential resource for writers with 500,000+ copies sold since publication.**In this age of electronic correspondence and self-produced documents, we need a useful and reliable writing guide more than ever. Write Right! covers the essentials of good writing in a concise and easy-to-follow format. The new edition of this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Grammatically Correct

    The Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Usage, Grammar, and Punctuation

    by Anne Stilman ...
    How does good writing stand out?If its purpose is to convey facts, findings, or instructions, it need be read only once for its content to be clear. If its purpose is to entertain or to provoke thought, it makes readers want to come back for more.Revised and updated, this guide covers four essential aspects of good writing:• Individual words - spelling variations, hyphenation, frequently confused ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • How to Not Write Bad

    The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them

    by Ben Yagoda ...
    Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the ability, first, to craft sentences that are correct in terms of spelling, diction (word choice), punctuation, and grammar, and that also display clarity, precision, and grace. Then he focuses on crafting ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

    by Bryan A. Garner ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    The authoritative guide to using the English language effectively, from "the greatest writer on grammar and usage that this country has ever produced" (David Yerkes, Columbia University).The author of The Chicago Manual of Style's popular "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Bryan A. Garner is renowned for explaining the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition

    Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

    by Kate L. Turabian, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald, The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today’s students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

    A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

    by Bill Bryson ...
    One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar.As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Semicolon

    The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

    by Cecelia Watson ...
    "Delightful, enlightening . . . The twisty history of the hybrid divider perfectly embodies the transience of language." — VultureThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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