English (Faculty of Agriculture)

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Insights into contemporary Canadian fiction.

"The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Second Essentials Edition is a streamlined version of the successful Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. The Essentials 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, to constructing sentences and paragraphs, to pre-writing, composing, proofreading, and editing. This new edition features a fully updated documentation section that uses special colour coding to help students recognize the common elements among in-text and reference citations."-- Provided by publisher.

ch. 1 Four Historical Influences on Persuasion -- Greeks -- Romans -- Thinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Present-day Persuasion: A Commentary -- Model -- Application -- ch. 2 Four Basics of the Persuasive Essay -- Length -- Rhetorical Stance -- Organization -- Structure -- Model -- Application -- ch. 3 Four Guides for Writing Persuasively -- Guide One Find the Topic -- Guide Two Craft the Thesis Statement -- Guide Three Defend It -- Guide Four End It -- Model -- Application -- ch. 4 Four Patterns for Teaching the Persuasive Essay -- Fourteen-day Implementation Model -- Pattern One Equal Arguments -- Pattern Two Strawman -- Subpattern Strawman Plus -- Pattern Three Concession -- Pattern Four Nestorian Order.

1. What's the point? -- Writing essays -- Writing is thinking -- Cultivate good habits -- 2. Start writing -- Overcoming psychological obstacles -- Avoid the weight of unfinished business -- Do something rather than nothing -- Customise your approach -- Take breaks -- Less than perfect can be good enough -- 3. Answer the question -- The worst mistake -- Direct questions -- Instruction words -- 4. Research and planning -- Discover what you need to know -- Use reading lists -- Stop researching and write something -- Think on paper -- Use the Internet -- 5. Beginnings, middles, ends -- Beginnings -- Middles -- Ends -- 6. Making a case -- Defend your conclusion -- Paragraphs as units of thought -- Use signposts -- Keep to the point -- Consider counterarguments/counterexamples -- Argue to a conclusion -- 7. Plagiarism, quotation, reference -- Avoid plagiarism -- Use quotation marks -- Give clear references and a bibliography -- 8. The craft of writing -- Get the tone right -- Be economical with adjectives -- Punctuate effectively -- Use the active voice -- Avoid convoluted sentences -- Be concise -- Avoid adverbs -- Avoid cliches -- Learn from others' clarity -- Avoid these common mistakes -- Avoid sexist language -- Spelling -- 9. The exam essay -- Understand the genre -- Be prepared -- Use active revision techniques -- Coping with exam nerves -- Read the questions -- Handwriting -- 10. Improving your writing -- Rewriting and editing -- Learn from feedback...

"Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode."--from publisher

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Updated for the needs of today's students--and with handy citation style guides adapted from The Chicago Manual of Style, Seventeenth Edition, the MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition, and the Publication Manual of the APA, Seventh Edition--the third edition of The Nuts and Bolt of College Writing offers essential guidance for college writers at all levels.

This text covers everything a student needs to know about writing essays and papers in the humanities and social sciences. Starting from the common difficulties students face, it gives practical examples of all the stages necessary to produce a good piece of academic work: • interpreting assignment topics • drawing on your own experience and background • reading analytically and taking efficient notes • developing your argument through introductions, middles and conclusions • evaluating and using online resources • understanding the conventions of academic culture • honing your ideas into clear, vigorous English. This book will provide you with all the tools and insights you need to write confident, convincing essays and coursework papers.