New Features of the Third Canadian Edition

NEW COMPREHENSIVE, INTERACTIVE WEB SITE, FREE, to accompany the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, Third Canadian Edition. Designed specifically to help anyone using either the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, Third Canadian Edition, or the Simon & Schuster Quick Access for Writers, Canadian Edition, it includes numerous components:

• Hundreds of application exercises for self-grading, including editing, fill-in-the-blank, essay, multiple choice, and matching.
   
• “Blue Pencil” exercises, providing grammar and punctuation practice in the context of complete paragraphs.
   
• Several comprehensive diagnostic tests for students to assess their strengths and weaknesses in all areas of grammar and punctuation.
   
• Helpful Web links (URLs) for every Part or major topic to offer supplemental resources and activities.
   
• An online reference library that provides information on how to search, evaluate, and document online sources.
   
• A new, innovative section dedicated to helping students write different types of papers. It provides students with tips, book references, sample student papers, and more. To assist students even if they aren’t navigating the site via a particular chapter, it is organized two different ways: (1) “What type of paper are you writing?” and (2) “Where are you in the writing process?”

NEW Expanded coverage of Research Writing, with six chapters instead of five.

• A new separate chapter, “Successful Online Research,” with information about searching the Web and the Internet, narrowing a search, avoiding plagiarism, and evaluating online sources (Chapter 33).
   
• A new section on Columbia Online Style (COS) documentation, in the chapter that also presents the documentation styles used by the MLA and APA, as well as the Chicago Manual (CM) and Council of Biology Editors (CBE) styles (Chapter 34).
   
• Revised Chapter 32, “The Processes of Research Writing,” now featuring new sections on formulating a research question and on the role of new technologies in research, as well as updates on Canadian government Web sites.

NEW Public writing, incorporated into Chapter 40, “Business Writing,” via guidelines on composing e-mail messages and memos in and outside of the formal business environment, in addition to letters, job application letters, and résumés.

NEW A section on tools for writers (Chapter 1) talks about computers, a personal bookshelf of reference volumes, and other resources for writers.

NEW Over 20% of the exercise content is new for this edition, with selected exercises featuring options for both individual and collaborative work.

NEW Additional Computer Tips, ESL Notes, and Alerts throughout the text help students incorporate technology, assist students for whom English is a second language, and highlight interactions between two or more grammatical and rhetorical issues.

CORE FEATURES OF THE THIRD CANADIAN EDITION

• Starts with six chapters about writing essays, explaining that the writing process is rarely linear, varying always with the writer, the topic, and the writing situation.
   
• Illustrates a variety of writing processes with nine complete student essays: one with an informative purpose (Chapter 3); two with a persuasive purpose (Chapter 6); one as a critical response to a reading (Chapter 5); two MLA-style research papers, one on a general topic (Chapter 35) and one on a literary topic (Chapter 38); one APA-style research paper; and three literature-based papers, including the literary research paper mentioned above.
   
• Offers detailed explanations of critical thinking and reading as they relate to writing. Extensively class-tested, Chapter 5 explains the crucial differences between summary and synthesis, with a discussion paced to assist students in grasping each cognitive process and to help them understand the higher-level thinking demanded by synthesis.
   
• Devotes a full chapter to argument, with each of two students taking a different position on the same topic. The Toulmin model and the classical model receive equal coverage.
   
• Covers all topics of grammar, style, language, punctuation, and mechanics.
   
• Demonstrates that research writing combines three processes: conducting research, understanding the results of that research, and writing a paper based on that research.
   
• Contains two complete MLA-style research papers. In Chapter 35, a paper about multiple intelligences is accompanied by a narrative of the student’s research writing process, with annotations and commentary alongside each page of the paper. In Chapter 38, a literary research paper discusses the narrative poem Towards the Last Spike by Canadian poet E. J. Pratt.
   
• Contains a 1500-word sample student essay discussing the acclaimed Canadian play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Chapter 38).
   
• Includes a complete APA-style research paper about biological clocks, accompanied by a brief narrative of the student’s writing process.
   
• Supplies a huge number of MLA and APA documentation examples, with much more for users of the Internet and other electronic sources and with directories for examples of in-text citations, similar to those already used for MLA Works Cited and APA References.
   
• Presents five chapters for students to use when they are writing across the curriculum, including an expanded chapter on business writing.
   
• Addresses the concerns of multilingual students, with many ESL Notes throughout the book and a longer discussion in six chapters.
   
• Includes Response Symbols, placed on the page preceding the inside back cover, which explain commonly used proofreading marks and the traditional correction symbols.