The Canadian Writer's Workplace, APA Update

The Canadian Writer’s Workplace is a complete solution providing students with clear explanations, a straight-forward organization, and opportunities for frequent practice. It has been designed to help them improve their written communication skills. With everything between two covers and now available online through the MindTap platform, students learn about sentence, paragraph, and essay writing skills, come to understand writing steps and strategies, and also have access to a selection of readings that are designed to inspire and motivate students. These are fundamental skills students are learning, that will not only serve them in their academic career, but beyond as well.

Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, to European immigrants, Gary Lipschutz currently teaches mythology and English at Toronto's Centennial College. Trained as a journalist at Carleton University in Ottawa, he went on to become an editor of a national Southam magazine. Since then, he has taught more than 30 different communications courses at various schools in the Toronto area including Ryerson University.

Sandra Scarry is the former Academic Coordinator of the COPE program (College Opportunity to Prepare for Employment) at The City University of New York. She came to that position after many years of classroom teaching in English and ESOL. She has published numerous textbooks in the areas of grammar and writing.

John Scarry holds a Ph.D. from New York University and was the senior professor in the English Department of Hostos Community College, The City University of New York. He has been publishing writing textbooks for thirty-five years and his scholarly articles have appeared in many journals here and abroad.