Writing by Choice

Preface (including edition highlights and pedagogy walkthrough)
Acknowledgements
1. Developing '3-D' Skills: Thinking, Reading, and Writing
2. The Writing Situation
3. Kinds of Essays
4. Essay and Paragraph Essentials
5. Essay and Paragraph Development
6. Writing a Research Essay
7. Documentation Styles
8. The Argumentative Essay
9. The Literary Essay
10. Sentence Essentials
11. Punctuation, Pronouns, Modifiers, and Parallelism
12. Achieving Clarity and Depth in Your Writing
Appendix A: Tense Encounters with Verbs: A Summary
Appendix B: A Special Case: Online Learning and Writing
Appendix C: Peer Edit Forms
Appendix D: Answers to Exercises
Index

Instructor's Manual
Answer Key to in-text questions
New Learning Objectives and Chapter Summaries
New Review Questions
New Points of Discussion
New ideas for Peer Review and Collaborative Activities
Test Bank
Expanded from previous edition to include 15-20 new questions per chapter with suggested answers
Interactive Student Quizzes
New self-grading multiple choice quizzes for each chapter

Eric P. Henderson teaches in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His current teaching interests include composition, rhetoric, and style, and his specialty in composition is reflected in his teaching focus with courses such as Reading and Writing across the Disciplines, University Writing, Remedial English Composition, and others. He is an active author with Oxford University Press Canada, where his other books include The Empowered Writer (co-authored with K. M. Moran, 2010) and Short Fiction & Critical Contexts (co-edited with J. Hancock, 2009). His other recent publications include When I Was a Child: Stories for Grownups and Children (Oberon, 2003) and Entering the Landscape (Oberon, 2001). Henderson has also published articles in leading journals such as Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Special Features

• 100% Canadian. This ground-up Canadian text has been developed expressly for composition courses taught in Canada, making it relevant and useful to students and instructors in this country.
• Professional essays. Accessible and thought-provoking selections by working writers on topics of particular interest to students engage readers and help them develop their own writing.
• Sample student essays. Full-length essays illustrate expressive, argumentative, expository, literary, and documentation styles, helping students apply key concepts to their own writing.
• Balances guidelines with choice. Rather than teach students to write by formula, this text explains approaches and methods while training students to make choices appropriate to each specific piece they craft, giving them the tools to tackle any writing challenge.
• Promotes critical thought. Extensive coverage of critical thinking in the context of writing and reading encourages students to become active participants in their learning.
• Comprehensive. Thoroughly covers the entire writing process, as well as research-oriented writing, rhetorical strategies, plagiarism, grammar, cross-disciplinary writing, documentation, and more, preparing students to take on the rigours of academic writing.
• Confidence-building. Incorporates the theme of self-empowerment to build students' confidence in their ability to make appropriate writing choices.
• Class-tested. Trusted in classrooms throughout the country, this text has been written by a Canadian composition instructor with years of experience and offers a proven method for teaching students to become confident and competent writers.
• Challenging yet encouraging. Readings have been selected to challenge the reader and highlight key skills, yet annotations, pre-reading questions, and exercises support students and guide them through the process.
• Logical organization. Readings and related instructional material follow one another in the text, drawing clear connections between guidelines and examples. Chapters on essay and paragraph development appear first in the text to avoid overwhelming students with the finer points of grammar.
• Academic honesty. Offers easy-to-understand guidelines for avoiding plagiarism while helping students appreciate the seriousness of the issue.
• Grammar and style. Thorough explanations of grammatical rules and stylistic guidelines equip students with the building blocks of good writing.
• Detailed peer edit forms. Encouraging students to edit each other's work, peer edit forms help new writers become competent editors and proofreaders.
• Current documentation guidelines. Up-to-date coverage of MLA, APA, and CMS styles helps students ensure accuracy in their documentation.

• Expanded coverage. Sections on critical thinking, source reliability, electronic research, writing summaries, paragraph construction and development, plagiarism, integration of sources, the literary research essay, diction and vocabulary, rhetorical analysis and response, and writing across the disciplines have been expanded to address trends in teaching and common student challenges.
• Easy-to-follow format. Now organized by chapters rather than parts, the second edition is more manageable and makes key topics easier to navigate.
• Pre-reading questions. Preceding essays and articles, these questions prepare students to engage with the readings.
• Additional student and professional writing samples. Current and engaging new essays and excerpts offer students more examples of effective prose.
• Numbered paragraphs. Readings now carry paragraph numbers, enabling students to be specific in their written analyses.
• 'A Closer Look'. These boxes provide an in-depth look at special topics such as metre, interviewing techniques, types of summaries, irony, writing indirect theses, and many more.
• 'Fast-Track'. Summarizing complex rules and style guidelines, these boxes help students quickly grasp key grammatical principles.
• Partial answer key with corresponding icons. Icons throughout direct students to a partial answer key in Appendix D that will enable them to monitor their progress.
• Collaborative exercises. New exercises encourage interaction among students, allowing them to pool their knowledge and learn from each other.
• Additional individual exercises. More exercises have been included to help students hone their skills independently.
• New documentation chapter. Students will find all documentation information centralized in this new chapter.