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Price: $46.50

Format:
Paperback 288 pp.
10 black-and-white photographs, 20 line illustrations, 7.5" x 9.25"

ISBN-10:
0195414012

ISBN-13:
9780195414011

Publication date:
August 2000

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Creating Meaning: Student Book

Kathy Block and Hannah Friesen

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Creating Meaning is a new academic prepartion book which integrates reading and writing. Students learn important reading strategies and the readings act as models and springboards for writing. Each chapter is built around a high-interest topic that has an academic focus, and will prepare the student for reading and writing in the academic world.

Readership : Advanced reading and writing book for English as a second language students preparing to enter college or university.

1. Our Families, Ourselves
2. Innovators: People who Make a Difference
3. Natural Disasters Across Canada
4. Conflict Management: Different Roads to Justice
5. Crossing Cultures: The Challenge of Adjustment
6. The Value of Friendship and Community
7. Ethics in Sports and Medicine: What are the Boundaries?
8. Varieties of Intelligence
9. Canadian Demographics
10. Television and its Social Impact

Teacher's Book

Kathy Block is a Writing Instructor at the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources in Winnipeg Hannah Friesen is an ESL Coordinator at the English Language Centre, University of Manitoba.

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Special Features

  • Includes Canadian content
  • Readings are current and authentic and are taken from textbooks, magazines, journals, and essay collections
  • Takes a process approach to writing
  • Chapters develop writing tasks around the major rhetorical modes common in academics including description, comparison/contrast, argument, defining and clarifying, etc.
  • Final chapter focuses on the research paper
  • Includes extensive practice with key skills such as paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing information and perspectives and documenting