The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook:: Student Workbook
Published on 30. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-543399-9 (ISBN)
Description
This workbook accompanies The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. It provides exercises covering the topics in the main book, from the mechanics of building strong sentences and paragraphs to the intricacies of writing, formatting, and documenting full-length research papers. With over 150 exercises the workbook helps students gain a firm grasp of grammatical concepts and other topics. Exercises also help students improve their writing through practical application of the effective writing techniques discussed in the text.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Illustrations
10 figures
Dimensions
Height: 278 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
598 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-543399-9 (9780195433999)
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Content
PART I: PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION; 1. 3-5 Recognizing coherence; 2. 1-7 Working with paragraphs; 3. 9a-b Finding and limiting subjects; 4. 9c Thinking about audience and purpose; 5. 9d Generating material; 6. 9e Classifying and organizing data; 7. 9f-j (1) Writing thesis statements and outlines; 8. 9f-j (2) Revising weak outlines; 9. 9f-j (3) Constructing and using outlines; 10. 9-l Evaluating beginnings; 11. 10 (1) Detecting faulty reasoning; 12. 10 (2) Analyzing arguments and recognizing persuasive techniques; 13. 10 (3) Including the opposition; PART II: UNDERSTANDING SENTENCES; 14. 12a-b (1) Subject and predicate; 15. 12a-b (2) Subject and predicate with modifiers and articles; 16. 12d-e Sentence patterns 2A and 2B; 17. 12f Sentence pattern 3; 18. 12g-k Sentence patterns 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, and 6; 19. 12k Sentence pattern 6; 20. 12c-k (1) Identifying sentence patterns; 21. 12c-k (2) Identifying sentence elements and patterns; 22. 12m-n Dependent and independent clauses; 23. 12-o Functions of subordinate clauses; 24. 12p Recognizing phrases; 25. 12m-p Recognizing phrases and clauses; 26. 12q (1) Writing appositives; 27. 12q (2) Using appositives; 28. 12q-r Identifying appositives and absolutes; 29. 12w-x Recognizing minor sentences and fragments; 30. 12x Recognizing and correcting sentence fragments; 31. 12z (1) Recognizing kinds of sentences; 32. 12z (2) Recognizing kinds of sentences; 33. 12z (3) Constructing different kinds of sentences; 34. 12z (4) Constructing different kinds of sentences; Answers; PART III: PARTS OF SPEECH; 35. 13b (1) Recognizing nouns; 36. 13b (2) Recognizing nouns; 37. 14e Using correct pronouns; 38. 14a-i Identifying pronouns; 39. 15d Avoiding gender bias; 40. 15 (1) Pronoun-antecedent agreement; 41. 15 (2) Correcting agreement errors; 42. 16 (1) Correcting faulty pronoun reference; 43. 16 (2) Correcting faulty pronoun reference; 44. 17a (1) Identifying verb types; 45. 17a (2) Recognizing subjective complements; 46. 17c (1) Using irregular verbs; 47. 17c (2) Using irregular verbs; 48. 17e-f Modal auxiliary verbs; 49. 17h Verb tense; 50. 17p (1) Revising passive voice; 51. 17p (2) Revising passive voice; 52. 18a-j (1) Subject-verb agreement; 53. 18a-j (2) Choosing correct verb; 54. 18a-j (3) Correcting faulty subject-verb agreement; 55. 19a-b Adjectives; 56. 19c Using articles; 57. 19e Order of adjectives; 58. 20 Identifying adverbs; 59. 19-20 (1) Recognizing adjectives and adverbs; 60. 19-20 (2) Correcting misused adjectives and adverbs; 61. 19-20 (3) Using adjectival and adverbial modifiers; 62. 21a Identifying infinitive phrases; 63. 21d-e Using participles; 64. 21(1) Identifying verbal phrases; 65. 21 (2) Recognizing verbals; 66. 21 (3) Using verbals; 67. 21 (4) Writing with verbals; 68. 21 (5) Reducing clauses; 69. 21 (6) Using absolute phrases; 70. 21 (7) Using absolute phrases; 71. 22a-c (1) Identifying prepositions; 72. 22a-c (2) Recognizing prepositional phrases; 73. 22a-c (3) Using prepositional phrases; 74. 23a Using coordinating conjunctions; 75. 23c (1) Recognizing subordinating clauses; 76. 23c (2) Using subordinating conjunctions; 77. 23c (3) Writing subordinating clauses; 78. 23 (1) Identifying conjunctions; 79. 23 (2)Writing with conjunctions; 80. 13-24 Recognizing parts of speech; 81. Review exercises: Part III; Answers; PART IV: WRITING EFFECTIVE SENTENCES; 82. 27a Lengthening sentences; 83. 27b Shortening sentences; 84. 28 Sentence variety; 85. 27-29 Sentence length, variety, and emphasis; 86. 32 (1) Correcting sentence fragments; 87. 32 (2) Correcting sentence fragments; 88. 35 (1) Correcting misplaced modifiers; 89. 35 (2) Correcting misplaced modifiers; 90. 36 (1) Correcting dangling modifiers; 91. 36 (2) Correcting dangling modifiers; 92. 32-36 Review of common sentence errors; 93. 37 (1) Correcting mixed constructions; 94. 37 (2) Correcting mixed constructions; 95. 38 (1) Improving alignment; 96. 38 (2) Improving alignment; 97. 39 Eliminating shifts; 98. 40 (1) Correcting faulty parallelism; 99. 40 (2) Correcting faulty parallelism; 100. 41 (1) Using subordination; 101. 41 (2) Correcting faulty coordination; 102. 42 Improving logic; 103. Review exercises: Parts II, III, and IV; Answers; PART V: PUNCTUATION; 104. 44 (1) Comma, semicolon, or colon; 105. 44 (2) Comma, semicolon, or colon; 106. 44e, 44j (also 33-34) (1) Correcting comma splices and run-on sentences; 107. 44e, 44j (also 33-34) (2) Correcting comma splices and run-on sentences; 108. 44e, 44j (also 33-34) (3) Correcting comma splices and run-on sentences; 109. 45 Punctuating adverbial clauses; 110. 46 Punctuating opening and closing words and phrases; 111. 45-46 Punctuating words, phrases, and adverbial clauses; 112. 48 (1) Punctuating nonrestrictive elements; 113. 48 (2) Identifying and punctuating nonrestrictive and restrictive elements; 114. 49 Punctuating series; 115. 44-49 Using the semicolon, colon, and dash; 116. 50 Punctuating sentence interrupters; 117. 44-50 (1) Extra punctuation practice: the comma; 118. 44-50 (2) Extra punctuation practice; 119. 54 Quotation marks; 120. 44-55 (1) Punctuation review; 121. 44-55 (2) Punctuation review; 122. Review exercises: Part V; Answers; PART VI: MECHANICS AND SPELLING; 123. 57 Using abbreviations correctly; 124. 58-60 Italics, capitalization, and titles; 125. 62-o-s (1) Using hyphens; 126. 62-o-s (2) Using hyphens; 127. 62t Forming plurals; 128. 62v-w (1) Using apostrophes; 129. 62v-w (2) Using apostrophes; 130. 62x Common misspellings; 131. Review exercises: Part VI; Answers; PART VII: DICTION; 132. 64b Using formal diction; 133. 64a-b Slang, colloquialisms, and informal expressions; 134. 64c (1) Thinking about <"big>" words; 135. 64c (2) Eliminating pretentious diction; 136. 66 (1) Using specific diction; 137. 66 (2) Being concrete and specific; 138. 67 Recognizing connotation; 139. 68 Avoiding euphemisms; 140. 69 (1) Avoiding wrong words; 141. 69 (2) Avoiding wrong words; 142. 70 (1) Correcting idioms; 143. 70 (2) Correcting idioms; 144. 71c Cutting redundancy; 145. 71a-c (1) Removing wordiness; 146. 71a-c (2) Reducing wordiness by combining sentences; 147. 71a-d Reducing wordiness, redundancy, and ready-made phrases; 148. 71e Eliminating cliches; 149. 71g Evaluating nouns used as adjectives; 150. 72 Usage; 151. 63-72 Sentence revisions; 152. Review exercise: Part VII; Answers; PART VIII: RESEARCH, WRITING, AND DOCUMENTATION; 153. 78 Paraphrasing and summarizing; 154. Documenting in MLA; Answers