English Essentials, CDN Edition: What you need to know about grammar, punctuation, and usage

John Langan; Lisa Salem-Wiseman

ISBN 10: 0070980403 / ISBN 13: 9780070980402

Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Essentials, CDN Edition: What you need to know about grammar, punctuation, and usage
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070980403
• ISBN 13: 9780070980402
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

Putting a Canadian face on grammar instruction.

English Essentials profiles real Canadian students’ personal stories accompanied by photographs of real people whose lives have been changed by reading and writing. The Canadian author, Dr. Lisa Salem-Wiseman, interviewed students across the country and wove their personal life stories into the fabric of this book.

Not only do students learn grammar through practice, they have an opportunity to engage and relate to the instruction and exercises for each skill. Reflecting the faces, challenges, and triumphs of its reader, this text inspires students to improve their writing skills.

Student photographers snapped the photo essays of many of the students featured in this textbook. This book is made for students, by students.

About the Author

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Library, a collection of more than a hundred new and classic stories.