The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook - Softcover

Messenger, The Late William E.; De Bruyn, Jan; Brown, The Late Judy; Montagnes, Ramona

9780199021093: The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199021090 ISBN 13: 9780199021093

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

"The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook is a streamlined version of the well-established Canadian Writer's Handbook. This handbook features the accessible, well-organized structure of the full volume, including descriptions and examples of the entire writing process: from basic grammar to constructing sentences and paragraphs, pre-writing, composing, proofreading, and editing. The text is suitable for students of all levels of study and includes EAL icons that point to material of particular benefit to students learning English as an additional language. This new edition features an updated and expanded documentation section that includes more citations for online sources, as well as colour coding to help students recognize the common elements among in-text and reference citations."--

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About the Author:

William E. Messenger (now deceased) and Jan de Bruyn, both professors emeriti of the University of British Columbia, produced the first edition of The Canadian Writer's Handbook (main volume) in 1980. Judy Brown (now deceased) joined the project as an editorial consultant on the third edition;
she was senior instructor and associate head in the English department at UBC. Ramona Montagnes is the head of the Writing Centre at UBC, where she teaches composition courses for the Writing Centre and the English Department.

Review:

"The major strengths of this text are its ease of use and its conciseness. . . . I would not consider any other text for use in any course that covers the fundamentals of writing."
--Cindy Soldan, Lakehead University

"This is a great book. It is accessible for students, has great built-in resources (such as the appendix and revisions symbols), and is thorough, with plenty of examples."
--Julie Morris-Warkentin, Sheridan College

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