Written collaboratively by writing instructors at Queen’s University, A Writer’s Handbook, second edition, is a compact yet thorough guide to academic writing for a North American audience.

Written for interdisciplinary use, this clear and concise handbook outlines strategies both for thinking assignments through and for writing them well.

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Leslie E. Casson teaches writing at The Writing Centre, Queen's University, Kingston.

"This new edition of A Writer's Handbook continues to provide excellent, comprehensive advice on how best to develop writing skills for university students. Everything is here, clearly and concisely laid out in a user-friendly manner that will appeal to student and teacher alike. A collaborative effort by experienced and gifted writing teachers that is skillfully edited and assembled, it's a practical, easy-to-follow guide you'll find yourself consulting again and again."

Michael Hurley

"I will use this text in all my courses—from my first-year writing classes all the way to my 'Advanced Writing for Graduate Students' course! My students will find A Writer’s Handbook immediately helpful; it makes sense of what professors often fail to explain but expect students to know and perform effortlessly."

Caroline L. Eisner