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Includes appendices and index.

"Over six editions, Essay Essentials with Readings has developed a loyal following because of its reputation for being straightforward and practical, providing students with the guidance and support they need to develop their written communication skills. With a clean layout, clear explanations, and opportunities to practise, Essay Essentials helps students to be better writers in their post-secondary studies and equips them with the skills they need to be successful in their career. Available to be bundled with the textbook, our online MindTap digital platform provides additional practice activities that are not found in the text, for those who want to provide their students with even more review opportunities. With Essay Essentials and MindTap, you can provide your students with an engaging and interactive learning experience and support their development of critical lifelong skills.

New to this edition:
A new part has been added: “Presenting Your Work” includes information about presentations, posters, and academic and workplace portfolios.
Six new published readings have been included.
Four student essays are included, providing students with a model of what they can create themselves.
25% of the exercises in the Workbook section are new to this edition.
Chapter 1 has a new section, “The Academic Audience,” which addresses common expectations and writing guidelines in an academic setting.
Chapter 2 has a new section, “Annotating Sources,” which introduces students to recording their understanding and interpretation of what they are reading.
In Chapter 3 a new section provides an opportunity for students to practise writing a response to a reading. We include a new reading on child poverty and two sample student responses.
The MLA documentation style, along with associated examples, has been updated." (xii, Preface)

CONTENTS:

PART 1. Understanding the Elements of Good Writing

1. Understanding the Audience, Understanding Yourself
Addressing Your Readers
Reflecting Yourself
Levels of Standard English Writing

2. Understanding the Role of Reading as a Writing Component
Start with Good Reading Skills
Skimming Scanning A Note on Speed reading and Increasing Your Reading Speed
Annotating Sources

3. Understanding the Role of Critical Thinking
The Interpretive Critical Thinking Model
Critical Thinking and Analysis Practice

PART 2. Beginning the Writing Process

4. Organizing Your Work and Preparing for Writing
Think about Your Subject
Make Your Subject Significant
Make Your Subject Single
Make Your Subject Specific
Make Your Subject Supportable
Organizing Subject Ideas into Main Points
Generating Main Points: Prewriting Techniques
An Alternative Approach: Questioning Your Subject
Testing Your Main Points

5. Developing the Main Points and Writing the Thesis Statement
Organizing Your Main Points
Writing the Thesis Statement
Phrasing Your Main Idea
Phrasing the Thesis Points
Writing a More Advanced Thesis Statement
Putting the Thesis Elsewhere in Your Paper

6. Writing an Outline
Preparing the Outline
Outline Format

PART 3. Drafting Your Work

7. Understanding the Paragraph
What Does a Paragraph Actually Look Like?
How Does a Paragraph Function?
How Long Should a Paragraph Be?
Crafting the Topic Sentence
Developing the Topic
How Do You End a Paragraph?

8. Writing Introductions and Conclusions
The Introductory Paragraph
Getting and Holding Your Readers' Attention
The Concluding Paragraph

9. Summarizing
How to Write a Summary

PART 4. Academic and Workplace Writing Styles

10. Academic and Workplace Writing
Four Ideas to Consider as You Develop Your Writing
Choosing an Overall Writing Strategy
Differences between Workplace and Academic Writing

11. Analytical Writing: Process Analysis, Causal Analysis, and Classification and Division
Analytical Writing
Process Analysis
Causal Analysis
Classification and Division

12. Persuasive Writing: Description, Example, and Comparison and Contrast
Description
Example
Putting Description and Example to Use
Comparison and Contrast

13. Argumentation
Choose Your Issue Carefully
Consider Your Audience
Identify Your Purpose
Organize Your Ideas
Tips for Writing Argumentation

14. Writing in the Workplace: Memos, Letters, and Short Reports
Memos
Letters
Short Reports

Part 5. Writing Research Papers

15. Preparing for Research and Choosing a Research Method
Tips for Writing a Research Paper
Ways of Doing Research

16. Formatting a Research Paper
Taking Good Research Notes for Informative Writing
Basic Formatting Guidelines
Formatting an MLA-Style Research Paper
Formatting an APA-Style Research Paper
Research Paper Tips: Projecting an Image

17. Documenting Your Sources
Introduction: The Two-Part Principle of Documentation
The MLA Style
The APA Style

Part 6. Understanding the Revision Process

18. Choosing the Right Words
The Writer's Toolkit
The Seven Deadly Errors of Writing

19. Rewriting Your Work
The Three Steps of Revision
Step 1: Rewriting

20. Editing and Proofreading Your Work
Step 2: Editing
Step 3: Proofreading
Working with Rubrics

Part 7. Presenting Your Work

21. Academic Presentations
Academic Presentations

22. Academic and Workplace Posters and Portfolios
Posters
Academic Portfolios

Part 8. Readings
Josh Dehaas "The College Advantage"
Scott Barry Kaufman "The Creative Gifts of ADHD"
Senator Grant Mitchell "It's Time to Enshrine the Rights and Protections of Transgender Canadians"
Sara R. Howerth "The Gas-Electric Hybrid Demystified"
Rebecca Boyle "Why Mars Is the Best Planet"
Deenu Parmar, "Labouring the Walmart Way"
Gabor Maté, "Embraced by the Needle"
Rubi Garyfalakis, "No Sweat?"
Trevor Jang "How Reporting on Indigenous Issues as an Indigenous Journalist Can Get Complicated"
Maria Amuchastegui, "Farming It Out"
Nancy Macdonald "A Deafening Silence on Aboriginal Issues" Sam McNerney, "Is Creativity Sexy? The Evolutionary Advantages of Artistic Thinking"
Navneet Alang, "Online Freedom Will Depend on Deeper Forms of Web Literacy"
Leah Brown "Using Technology to Fight Depression"
B. Ferguson "No More Classes, No More Books: Online vs. Traditional Schooling"
Syneba Mitchell "Mislabelled by Society"
Emily Silbert "Dancing with Language: Don Quijote's Words and Consensual Reality"

PART 9. WORKBOOK

23. A Review of the Basics
How to Use This Workbook
Cracking the Sentence Code
Solving Sentence-Fragment Problems
Solving Run-On Problems
Solving Modifier Problems
The Parallelism Principle
Refining by Combining

24. Grammar
Mastering Subject-Verb Agreement
Using Verbs Effectively
Solving Pronoun Problems

25. Punctuation
The Comma
The Semicolon
The Colon
Quotation Marks
The Question Mark
The Exclamation Mark
Dashes and Parentheses

26. Spelling
Hazardous Homonyms
The Apostrophe
The Hyphen
Capital Letters
Numbers

Appendix A. List of Terms: A Vocabulary of Writing

Appendix B. Answers for Selected Exercises

Index