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The Canadian Oxford Guide to Writing

A Rhetoric and Handbook

by (author) Thomas S. Kane, Karen C. Ogden & Heather Pyrcz

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2007
Category
Composition & Creative Writing
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195424362
    Publish Date
    Nov 2007
    List Price
    $169.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195408706
    Publish Date
    May 1993
    List Price
    $36.95

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The Canadian Oxford Guide to Writing is a complete handbook and rhetoric, useful to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of composition. The book starts with an overview of the writing process, before moving on to explore essays, paragraphs, and sentences. It discusses types of writing organized by rhetorical mode. The book also includes a short section on the mechanics of writing and concludes with the handbook section, covering the basics of grammar. This text is the fully updated, second Canadian edition. In the new edition, more than one third of the examples are now by Canadian writers writing across the disciplines. Extensive revisions have streamlined the information and have brought the text up-to-date with recent changes in library sciences, word-processing software, and the Internet

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Heather Pyrcz has published three collections of poetry, Town Limits (1997), Nights on Prospect Street (1999) and Viaticum (2002). In 2001, CBC Radio commissioned her to write two poems for its classical music program "Take Five." Pyrcz lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where she teaches part-time in the Department of English at Acadia University.

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