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The Canadian Writer's Handbook

by (author) William E. Messenger, Jan de Bruyn, Judy Brown & Ramona Montagnes

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
General
  • Spiral bound

    ISBN
    9780199025572
    Publish Date
    Feb 2017
    List Price
    $49.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780195427554
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $78.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780190164003
    Publish Date
    Sep 2022
    List Price
    $39.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780195446968
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $99.99

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Description

The Canadian Writer's Handbook (CWH) is a comprehensive, college/university-level handbook designed to help students write with confidence in a variety of rhetorical situations. Building on the foundations laid by William Messenger and Jan de Bruyn over twenty-five years ago, Judy Brown and
Ramona Montagnes have completely updated this comprehensive and authoritative text, which features detailed descriptions and examples of the entire writing process, from basic grammar, to constructing sentences and paragraphs, to pre-writing, to composing, and finally to proofreading and editing.
The fifth edition has been slightly reorganized, with the discussion of principles of composition moved to the start of the book to better suit the needs of instructors and students. EAL icons point to new material of particular benefit to students learning English as an additional language. The
discussion on achieving academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism has been brought up to date, as have all examples in the section on documentation.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

The late William E. Messenger and Jan de Bruyn, both emeritus professors of the University of British Columbia, produced the first edition of The Canadian Writer's Handbook in 1980. Judy Brown joined the project as an editorial consultant on the third edition; she is a senior instructor in the
English department at UBC, where she teaches courses in Canadian and children's literature. Ramona Montagnes, also a member of UBC's English department, has been the director of the university's writing centre since 1992 and is responsible for the development of new courses and programs for the
centre.