Books

Most of Broadview’s published material is available for inclusion in a Custom Course Text. Please click here for a list of our most relevant books not listed below. If the reading you are looking for is not listed here, please contact Broadview's Custom Text Coordinator, or fill out the appropriate field when completing your order.

Click on any of the following categories and books for a list of material available for use in the Custom Text Builder. If you are looking for a specific reading, or for works by a specific author, use the search bar at top right.

We also offer a set of pre-selected Themed Custom Texts that you can adapt for your course needs. Topics include medieval women writers, postcolonial studies, queer literature, and slavery.

If you wish to include material from other Broadview books not listed below (excluding works that are still under copyright protection from other rights-holders), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.

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Essays and Arguments

How does one help undergraduate students learn quickly how to produce effectively organized, persuasive, well-reasoned essays? This book offers a straightforward, systematic introduction to some of the key elements of the construction of…

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Academic Writing: An Introduction - Third Edition

Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student…

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Strategic Guide to Technical Communication 2e (US)

A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers, to enable them to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been developed and tested…

Writing About Literature 2e

Writing about Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary student and scholarly essays, and visual material. It…

Writing Essays About Literature

This book gives students an answer to the question, "What does my professor want from this essay?" In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating "a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the…

The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students – Sixth Edition

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…

How to be Good With Words

In recent decades, the contested areas of English usage have grown both larger and more numerous. English speakers argue about whether we should say man or humanity, fisher or fisherman; whether we ought to…

The Argument Handbook

The Argument Handbook is a reference tool and classroom text designed to help students understand complex rhetorical situations and navigate the process of transforming private thoughts into persuasive, public statements. The book is…

Focus on Writing: What College Students Want to Know

This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks…

The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture

Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Text teaches critical reading, writing, and…

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Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide

Straightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and plain language.…

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Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century

Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century offers guidance to help writers succeed in a broad range of writing tasks and purposes in science and other STEM fields. Concise and current, the book takes most of its examples and lessons from…