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  • The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing - Fifth Canadian Edition

    by Doug Babington, Corey Frost, Don LePan, Maureen Okun, Nora Ruddock, Karen Weingarten, Laura Buzzard ...
    The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are key grammatical points, a glossary of usage, advice on various forms of academic writing, coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics, and helpful advice on how to research academic papers. MLA, APA, and Chicago styles of citation and documentation are covered, and each has ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students - Fourth Edition

    by Corey Frost, Karen Weingarten, Doug Babington, Don LePan, Maureen Okun, Nora Ruddock ...
    The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are summaries of key grammatical points; a glossary of usage; advice on various forms of academic writing; coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics; helpful advice on how to research academic papers; and much more. Four commonly-used styles of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

    by Steven Pinker ...
    “Charming and erudite," from the author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now, "The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem.” —Time.comWhy is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing—and why should we care? From the author of The ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition

    Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

    by Kate L. Turabian, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald, The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today’s students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Semicolon

    The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

    by Cecelia Watson ...
    "Delightful, enlightening . . . The twisty history of the hybrid divider perfectly embodies the transience of language." — VultureThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fifty Ways to Practice Vocabulary: Tips for ESL/EFL Students

    Fifty Ways to Practice: Tips for ESL/EFL Students, #3

    by Belinda Young-Davy ...
    Series Book 3 - Fifty Ways to Practice: Tips for ESL/EFL Students
    Without grammar, you can't say much; but without vocabulary, you can't say anything! This book, for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language, will teach you 50 ways to learn, practice, and remember vocabulary in English. By applying these methods, you will improve your ability to understand and express yourself in English.Categories covered include Finding and Learning New Words; ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition

    A Guide for Editors, Writers, and Everyone Who Works with Words

    by Karen Virag, Editors' Association of Canada ...
    Editing Canadian English is a style guide, reference manual, judgment-call coach, and much more. Written by expert editors from across the country, it presents a flexible but systematic approach to creating workable Canadian styles.This comprehensive update includes valuable information on:• Canadianization• inclusivity• spelling• compounds and hyphens• capitalization• abbreviations• punctuation• ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Write to the Point

    A Master Class on the Fundamentals of Writing for Any Purpose

    by Sam Leith ...
    Good writers follow the rules. Great writers know the rules—and follow their instincts!Finding the right words, in the right order, matters—whether you're a student embarking on an essay, a job applicant drafting your cover letter, an employee composing an email…even a (hopeful) lover writing a text. Do it wrong and you just might get an F, miss the interview, lose a client, or spoil your chance ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Write Right!

    A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style

    by Jan Venolia ...
    The newest edition of Jan Venolia’s best-selling guide, Write Right! is an essential resource for writers with 500,000+ copies sold since publication.**In this age of electronic correspondence and self-produced documents, we need a useful and reliable writing guide more than ever. Write Right! covers the essentials of good writing in a concise and easy-to-follow format. The new edition of this ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Essentials Edition

    by William E. Messenger, Judy Brown and Ramona Montagnes ...
    This compact version of Canada's most trusted guide to research, writing, and documentation offers advice that is guaranteed to help writers of all skill levels master the writing process. With streamlined discussions of composition, grammar and style, spelling and punctuation, research practices, and a fully updated documentation section, this is an essential reference for all students. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Canadian Style

    A Guide to Writing and Editing

    by Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation Bureau, Dundurn ...
    The revised edition of The Canadian Style is an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people -- in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today.It provides concise, up-to-date answers to a host of questions on abbreviations, hyphenation, spelling, the use of capital letters, punctuation and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economical Writing, Third Edition

    Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose

    by Stephen T. Ziliak, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "The book every entrepreneur should read. . . . Better than Strunk and White. . . . The work of a master."--Stephen Kinsella, University of LimerickEconomics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no.Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD