This Canadian handbook provides post-secondary students with complete coverage of the writing process. It covers research, pre-writing, drafting, revising, style and documentation as well as addressing grammar and punctuation rules.
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Prewriting I: The Basics | |
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| Prewriting II: Techniques | |
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| Prewriting III: Skill Development | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Revising | |
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| The Writing Process: Highlights | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Academic Writing | |
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| Plagiarism | |
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| Writing the Academic Essay | |
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| Summary | |
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| Writing a Literary Analysis | |
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| Exam Strategies | |
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| Constructing an Errors Chart | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Research Essays | |
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| Step 1: Defining the Assignment | |
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| Step 2: Developing a Preliminary Thesis | |
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| Step 3: Conducting Research | |
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| Step 4: Reading | |
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| Step 5: Making and Storing Reference Notes | |
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| Step 6: Drafting the Essay | |
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| Step 7: Revising the Essay | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Style Formats: An Overview | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| MLA Style | |
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| APA Style | |
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| Chicago Style | |
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| Columbia Online Style | |
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| CSE Style | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Basic Grammar | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Phrases and Clauses | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Sentence Elements | |
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| Parts of Sentences | |
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| Sentence Patterns | |
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| Sentence Types | |
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| Sentence Purposes | |
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| Sentence Variety | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Constructing Paragraphs | |
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| Sequencing Ideas | |
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| Paragraph Purpose | |
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| Paragraph Development | |
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| Paragraph Transitions | |
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| Paragraph Structure | |
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| Special-Purpose Paragraphs | |
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| Common Paragraph Problems | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Grammatical Sentences | |
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| Construction | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Common Sentence Problems | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Usage And Diction | |
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| Diction (Word Choice) | |
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| Pronoun Case | |
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| Pronoun Choice | |
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| Collective Nouns | |
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| Inclusive Language | |
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| Comparatives and Superlatives | |
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| Active and Passive Voice | |
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| Split Infinitives | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| The Comma | |
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| The Semicolon | |
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| The Colon | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| The Apostrophe | |
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| The Slash | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Brackets | |
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| The Dash | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Italics or Underlining | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Hyphens | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Job-Related Writing | |
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| Business Documents | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Selected Answers | |
