PART 1: WRITING AND READING
1. Basic Skills Development
Sample Professional Essay: "Bear Cub: Rogue Wildlife Is Par for the Course on Canada's Northernmost Green" by Eva Holland
NEW Sample Professional Essay: "4 Types of Procrastination and How to Beat Them" by Brian Dordevic
2. The Writing Situation
NEW Sample Professional Essay: "Listen to Your Gut: Rewards and Challenges of Intuitive Eating" by Lisa Petty
3. Paragraph Essentials
Sample Professional Essay: "Everything You Need to Know about Imposter Syndrome" by Sydney Loney
4. Paragraph and
Essay Development
Sample Professional Essay: "Why Do We Still Put Young People in Solitary Confinement?" by Cathy Gulli
Sample Student Essay: Response to "Why Do We Still Put Young People in Solitary Confinement?" by Julianny Vahlis
NEW Sample Professional Essay: "If Corporations
Have Legal Rights, Why Not Rivers?" by David Suzuki and Rachel Plotkin
5. Summarizing Other Writers' Work
Sample Professional Essay: "The $15 Minimum Wage Movement Rises Up" by Janet Nicol
Sample Professional Essay: "Almost a Million Canadian Kids in Poverty Is an Acute Emergency" by
Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones
PART 2: ESSAYS
6. The Expository Essay
NEW Sample Student Essay: "How to Improve Memory" by Leman Koca
Sample Student Essay: "Tail of Opposites: Meow, Meow, or Woof, Woof?" by Barclay Katt
NEW Sample Professional Essay: "One Giant Paw Print Stirs an
Age-Old Debate: How Big Can a Wolf Be" by Michael Fraiman
7. Introductions, Thesis Statements, and Conclusions
Sample Professional Essay: "Alouette Anniversary" by Hillary Windsor
8. Claims, Evidence, and the Analytical Model
Sample Professional Essay: "Harnessing the Power of
Nature to Fight Climate Change" by Brian Banks
9. The Argumentative Essay
NEW Sample Professional Essay: "Not Immune: What a Teenager Who Got Vaccinated against His Parent's Will Can Teach Us About Anti-vaxxers" by Suraj Patel
Sample Student Essay: "Discrimination against Aboriginals
in Canada: Bill C-45" by Jane Freiburger
PART 3: RESEARCH
10. Conducting Research
11. Using Your Research
Sample Student Essay: "The Cost of Buying Happiness: Why Less Is More" by Sandy Crashley
Sample Student Essay: "Computer Ergonomics" by Mike Butler
12. APA and MLA
Documentation Styles
Sample Student Essay: "Polar Bears: Bright Outlook or Grim Future" by Adam Cook
NEW Sample Professional Essay: "The Historical Influences on Québec's Traditional Desserts" by Melissa Donnelly
PART 4: GRAMMAR
13. Sentence Essentials
14. Punctuation
15. Agreement, Pronoun, and Sentence Structure Errors
16. Achieving Clarity and Depth in Your Writing
APPENDICES
A: Verb Tenses
B: A Checklist for EAL Writers
C: Peer Edit Forms
D: Partial Exercise Answer Key: Chapters 13-15
Glossary
Index
Instructor's Manual:
Jeremy Jackson, Medicine Hat College
For each chapter:
· Chapter overview
· Learning objectives
· Key concepts
· Suggested group work and take-home assignments
· Suggested in-class writing assignments
· Web links and resources
Test Bank:
Linda Harwood, Selkirk College
For each chapter:
· 20-25 multiple choice questions
· 18-25 fill-in-the-blank questions
· 5-8 short-answer questions with sample answers and page references
- 5-7 essay questions
PowerPoint:
Linda Harwood, Selkirk
College
For each chapter:
· 17-36 slides
· Summaries of content covering all areas of the text
Student Study Guide:
Dorothea Morrison, Lethbridge College
Interactive quizzes; for each chapter:
· 15 multiple-choice questions
· Practice questions for mid-terms
and final exams
Matching Activities; for each chapter:
· 10 questions that reflect key terms and concepts
· Practice questions for mid-terms and final exams
Grammar Quizzes:
· 30-50 multiple choice questions
· These questions cover all areas of grammar from punctuation
to sentence structure to verb tenses.
Kathleen M. Moran is a professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Conestoga College. She has taught and created a wide range of courses including technical writing, composition, business communication, and student success. Kathleen has also taught composition at Humber College and
Brock University. She has authored ancillary material for Oxford, Pearson, and Nelson and is the Canadian adapter on Searles, Workplace Communication (2012) with Pearson Canada.
Eric Henderson is an active author with Oxford University Press Canada, where his other books include Writing
by Choice, 3e (2015), The Active Reader, 4e (2018), and Becoming an Active Reader, 3e (2020). He has also published articles in leading journals such as Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of
Victoria where his teaching interests include composition, rhetoric, and style.
The Canadian Writer's Handbook - The late William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn, The late Judy Brown and Ramona Montagnes
The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook - The late William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn, The late Judy Brown and Ramona Montagnes
Practical Grammar - Maxine Ruvinsky
Essay Do's and Don'ts - Lucia Engkent and Garry Engkent
Becoming an Active Reader - Eric Henderson
Making Sense - Margot Northey