The Aims and Strategies of Good Writing, First Edition

Aims and Strategies of Good Writing takes an aims-based approach which is grounded in the philosophy that good writing fulfills the aim for which it is written.  It provides six aims, and the strategies to fulfill them, with real-life examples to illustrate key points.

Bob Sherrin is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.  Since 1981, he has taught in the Humanities department of Capilano College, where he served several terms as a coordinator of the English department and was editor of The Capilano Review for eight years.  He has given lectures at UBC, the University of Vienna, and the University of Graz, Austria.  His writing has been published in Canada, Scotland, Switzerland, and India.

Bill Schermbrucker is a retired college English instructor and Instructor Emeritus of Capilano College.  He holds a BA (Cape Town), MA, PhD (UBC), and Post Grad. Cert. Ed. (U London, England).  He taught high-school English and Latin in Kenya before moving to Capilano College.  He has been editor of The Capilano Review, a board member of the Canadian Periodical Publishers’ Association, and a Council member of The Writers’ Union of Canada.  His fiction and literary reviews have been widely published.