The Brief Penguin Handbook, First Canadian Edition

 This exciting, new text is the first Canadian handbook designed and written specifically to meet the diverse learning styles of digital natives — today’s students.

 

Boasting a full-colour, visual design, unique emphasis on rhetorical modes and superior coverage of technology, this text empowers students with the skills required to meet the complex writing demands of the digital era. 

 

The fully integrated online support package includes an extensive Companion Website and e-book with direct links to MyCanadianCompLab, Pearson Canada’s robust web-based resource designed to support Grammar, Research and Writing skills.

 

Roger Graves is an associate professor and Director of Writing and Technical and Professional Communication at the University of Western Ontario. He has researched and written about the teaching of writing in Canadian universities since 1990, including Writing Instruction in Canadian University (Inkshed Publications, 1994) and co-editing Writing Centres, Writing Seminars, Writing Culture: Writing Instruction in Anglo-Canadian Universities (Inkshed Publications, 2006). Currently, he is co-editor of Inkshed: Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning.

 

Heather Graves published Rhetoric in(to) Science: Style as Invention in Inquiry (Hampton Press) in 2005 and co-edited Writing Centres, Writing Seminars, Writing Culture: Writing Instruction in Anglo-Canadian Universities (Inkshed Publications) in 2006. From 1993 to 2005 she was Assistant Professor at Illinois State University in Normal, IL and then Associate Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Currently, she is co-editor of Inkshed: Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning.