Full Description
The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Essential Edition is a streamlined version of the successful Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. The Essential Edition uses the accessible, well-organized, and classroom-tested structure of the full volume, and continues to feature descriptions and examples of the entire writing process, from basic grammar, sentence construction, and pre-writing, to composing, proofreading, and editing. The discussion on achieving academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism is up to date, as are the examples in the section on documentation.
Contents
PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER INDEX; I ESSENTIALS OF COMPOSITION; THE WRITING PROCESS: PLANNING, WRITING, AND REVISING THE WHOLE ESSAY; FINDING AND LIMITING A SUBJECT; CONSIDERING AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE; GATHERING AND WRITING A FIRST DRAFT; BEGINNINGS; REVISING, EDITING, AND PROOFREADING; PREPARING THE FINAL DRAFT; PARAGRAPHS; UNITY; ORGANIZATIONAL COHERENCE; STYLE: SENTENCES; SENTENCE ELEMENTS AND PATTERNS; SUBJECT AND PREDICATE, NOUN AND VERB; ARTICLES AND OTHER MODIFIERS; STRUCTURE WORDS; PHRASES; INDEPENDENT COMMA SPLICES; RUN-ON (FUSED) SENTENCES; MISPLACED MODIFIERS; DANGLING REFERENCE; PRONOUNS AND INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE; VERBS; TRANSITIVE, INTRANSITIVE, AUXILIARY VERBS; VERB TENSES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS; TENSE SEQUENCE; MOOD; VOICE; AGREEMENT BETWEEN SUBJECT AND VERB; WORDS INTERVENING BETWEEN SUBJECT AND VERB; COMPOUND SUBJECTS; AGREEMENT WITH INDEFINITE PRONOUNS; SUBJECT FOLLOWING VERB; AGREEMENT WITH RELATIVE PRONOUNS; ADJECTIVES; KINDS OF WORDS; INTERJECTIONS; PREPOSITIONS; CONJUNCTIONS: COORDINATE, CORRELATIVE, SUBORDINATE; INTERJECTIONS; DICTION; LEVEL; CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT DICTION; EUPHEMISMS; WRONG WORDS; IDIOM; WORDINESS, CLICHES, JARGON, AND ASSOCIATED PUNCTUATION; THE COMMA; THE COMMA WITH COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS; THE COMMA SUBORDINATE CLAUSE; THE COMMA WITH NONRESTRICTIVE ELEMENTS; THE COMMA WITH SENTENCE INTERRUPTERS; COMMA SPLICES; THE SEMICOLON; THE SEMICOLON WITH INDEPENDENT CLAUSES; THE SEMICOLON WITH CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS AND TRANSITIONS; THE SEMICOLON WITH ITEMS IN A SERIES; THE COLON; THE COLON WITH ITEMS IN A OF A BUSINESS LETTER; THE COLON INTRODUCING A BLOCK QUOTATION; THE DASH; THE DASH WITH ITEMS IN A SERIES; THE DASH WITH SENTENCE INTERRUPTERS; PARENTHESES; QUOTATION MARKS; QUOTATION MARKS WITH DIRECT SPEECH; QUOTATION MARKS WITH DIRECT QUOTATION FROM A SOURCE; SINGLE QUOTATION MARKS FOR A QUOTATION WITHIN A QUOTATION; QUOTATION MARKS AROUND WORDS USED IN A SPECIAL SENSE; OTHER MARKS WITH QUOTATION MARKS; ELLIPSES FOR OMISSIONS; BRACKETS; THE PERIOD; THE QUESTION MARK; THE EXCLAMATION POINT; AVOIDING COMMON ERRORS IN PUNCTUATION; UNWANTED COMMA SPLICE; UNWANTED COMMA BETWEEN SUBJECT AND AFTER LAST ADJECTIVE OF A SERIES; UNWANTED COMMA BETWEEN COORDINATED WORDS AND PHRASES; COMMAS WITH EMPHATIC REPETITION; UNWANTED COMMA WITH SHORT APPOSITIVE; UNWANTED COMMA WITH INDIRECT QUOTATION; UNWANTED QUESTION MARK AFTER INDIRECT QUESTION; UNWANTED SEMICOLON WITH SUBORDINATE ELEMENT; UNWANTED COLON AFTER INCOMPLETE CONSTRUCTION; UNWANTED DOUBLE PUNCTUATION: DIVISION; ABBREVIATIONS; TITLES BEFORE PROPER NAMES; TITLES AND DEGREES AFTER PROPER NAMES; STANDARD WORDS USED WITH DATES AND NUMERALS; AGENCIES AND OFFICIAL TITLES; CAPITALIZATION; NAMES AND NICKNAMES; PROFESSIONAL AND HONORIFIC TITLES; PLACE NAMES; MONTHS, DAYS, AND HOLIDAYS; RELIGIOUS NAMES; OF GOVERNMENT, HISTORICAL EVENTS, AND BUILDINGS; ACADEMIC COURSES AND EI; FINAL E BEFORE A SUFFIX; FINAL Y AFTER A CONSONANT AND BEFORE A SUFFIX; DOUBLING OF A FINAL CONSONANT BEFORE A SUFFIX; THE SUFFIX LY; TROUBLESOME WITH OTHER WORDS; HOMOPHONES AND OTHER WORDS SOMETIMES CONFUSED; HYPHENATION; WRITING, AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES; THE RESEARCH PLAN; FORMULATING RESEARCH QUESTIONS; DESIGNING A TIMELINE; IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING SOURCES; PRODUCING A PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTE-TAKING; WRITING THE ESSAY; ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES; QUOTATION, PARAPHRASE, SUMMARY, AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY; LEGITIMATE PARAPHRASE; ILLEGITIMATE PARAPHRASE; PARAPHRASE AND QUOTATION MIXED; SUMMARY; MAINTAINING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND AVOIDING PLAGIARISM; INTEGRATING AND CONTEXTUALIZING QUOTATIONS; DOCUMENTING SOURCES; THE NAME-PAGE METHOD (MLA STYLE); THE NAME-DATE METHOD (APA STYLE); THE NOTE PROOFREADING; INDEX
