The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190163976 ISBN 13: 9780190163976

Publisher: OUP Canada, 2022

Synopsis

This streamlined version of Canada's most trusted guide to research, writing, and documentation delivers invaluable advice on every aspect of the writing process, from composing a sentence to producing a full-length research paper. This handbook features descriptions and examples of the entire writing process from basic grammar and punctuation to constructing sentences and paragraphs. It also covers how to quote and paraphrase to avoid plagiarism, and includes updated coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE, and IEEE styles. This 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.

About this title

About the Author

William E. Messenger and Jan de Bruyn (both now deceased), 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 former head of the Writing Centre at UBC, where she taught composition courses for the Writing Centre and the English Department.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Canada
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190163976
• ISBN 13: 9780190163976
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 436