Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, Fifth Canadian Edition with MyCanadianCompLab, 5th Edition

Informed by current rhetorical theory and an organization that reflects a view of writing as a process, Strategies for Successful Writing provides the necessary strategies to help you produce effective post-secondary writing, regardless of your discipline.

          Featuring a reader-friendly layout and tone, Strategies will engage you through a relaxed, conversational style that complements its practical, student-based approach to writing. Lively and appealing professional and student model essays allow you to observe and internalize the strategies of successful writing.

        This popular text has been updated with 10 new readings, carefully streamlined content to reduce length, and updated MLA and APA documentation guidelines.

RHETORIC

Writing Strategies: A Writing Process

1. Writing: An Overview
2. Strategies for Active Reading
3. Strategies for Planning and Drafting Your Writing
4. Strategies for Global Revisions: Working with the Whole
5. Strategies for Local Revisions: Paragraphs, Sentences, Diction, and Style

 

Writing Strategies: Rhetorical Approaches

1. Strategies for Personal Writing: Narration
2. Strategies for Using Illustration: Making Yourself Clear
3. Strategies for Analytical Writing: Process Analysis
4. Strategies for Analytical Writing: Cause and Effect
5. Strategies for Analytical Writing: Definition
6. Strategies for Finding Patterns: Composition
7. Strategies for Finding Patterns: Classification
8. Strategies for Convincing Others: Argument and Persuasion

 

RESEARCH GUIDE

1. Strategies for Researching: Using Secondary Research
2. Strategies for Researching: Using Primary Research
3. Strategies for Documentation

 

READER

--Personal Writing: Narration

--Illustration

--Analytical Writing: Process, Cause and Effect, and Definition

--Patterns: Comparison and Classification

--Convincing Others: Argument and Persuasion

 

HANDBOOK

--Sentence Elements

--Editing to Correct Sentence Errors

--Editing to Correct Faulty Punctuation and Mechanics

--Spelling

--Glossary of Work Usage

 

Credits

Index

Editing Symbols