Thomas S. Kane, Karen C. Ogden and Heather Pyrcz
Part One: The Writing Process
1. Invention
2. Outlining
3. Drafting and Revising
Part Two: The Essay
4. Structure of the Essay
Part Three: The Persuasive essay
5. Rational Modes: Argument
6. Nonrational Modes
Part Four: The Literary
essay
7. Creative Non-Fiction
8. The Literary Essay
Part Five: The Research essay and The Exam essay
9. Gathering, Quoting, and Citing Information
10. The Exam Essay
Part Six: The Paragraph
11. Basic Structure
12. Methods of Development
13.
Paragraph patterns
14. Sentence patterns in the paragraph
Part Seven: The Sentence
15. The Grammatical Types of Sentences
16. Sentence style
17. Concision in the sentence
18. The Emphatic Sentence
19. Emphasis within the Sentence
Part Eight:
Diction
20. The Question of Meaning
21. Problems of Diction
22. Unnecessary Words
23. Figurative Language
24. Unusual Words and Collocations
25. Dictionaries and Thesauri
Part Nine: Punctuation
26. Stops
27. The Other Marks
Grammar Reference 99.1:
Parts of Speech
Grammar Reference 99.2: Grammar of the sentence
Appendix Revised
Part 1: In-text citation
Part 2: Reference listing at end of essay
Thomas S. Kane, former professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut, Waterbury, wrote the original Oxford Guide to Writing, which was then adapted for Canadians by Karen C. Ogden, who is Vice-Provost (Staff Development), Office of the President, The University of
Manitoba. Heather Pyrcz, who teaches writing and composition at Acadia University, has taken-over responsibility for Canadian content and updating for the second edition. In addition to teaching, Pyrcz is also the author of several books and collections of poetry.
Making Sense - Margot Northey and Joan McKibbin
The Canadian Writer's Handbook - William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn, Judy Brown and Ramona Montagnes
Writing by Choice - Eric Henderson
Communicating for Results - Carolyn Meyer
The Canadian Oxford Guide to Writing - Thomas S. Kane, Karen C. Ogden and Heather Pyrcz
Practical Grammar - Maxine Ruvinsky