The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Essential Edition. This item is unavailable.The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Essential Edition

The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Essential Edition is a streamlined version of the successful Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. The Essential Edition uses the accessible, well-organized, and classroom-tested structure of the full volume, and continues to feature descriptions and examples of the entire writing process, from basic grammar, sentence construction, and pre-writing, to composing, proofreading, and editing. The discussion on achieving academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism is up to date, as are the examples in the section on documentation.

William E. Messenger (now deceased) and Jan de Bruyn, both emeritus professors of the University of British Columbia, produced the first edition of The Canadian Writer's Handbook (main volume) in 1980. Judy Brown joined the project as an editorial consultant on the third edition of the main volume; she is a senior instructor in the Department of English at UBC, where she teaches courses in Canadian and children's literature. Ramona Montagnes, also a member of UBC's Department of English, has been the director of the university's writing centre since 1992 and is responsible for the development of new courses and programs for the centre.