Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, Fifth Canadian Edition (5th Edition) Reinking, James A.; von der Osten, Robert A.; Cairns, Sue Ann and Fleming, Robert

Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, Fifth Canadian Edition (5th Edition) Reinking, James A.; von der Osten, Robert A.; Cairns, Sue Ann and Fleming, Robert

ISBN 10: 020582756X / ISBN 13: 9780205827565

Published by Pearson Canada, 2012

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Title: Strategies for Successful Writing: A ...

Publisher: Pearson Canada

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Edition: 5th or later Edition

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Synopsis:

Informed by current rhetorical theory and an organization that reflects a view of writing as a process, Strategies for Successful Writing provides the necessary strategies to help you produce effective post-secondary writing, regardless of your discipline.

          Featuring a reader-friendly layout and tone, Strategies will engage you through a relaxed, conversational style that complements its practical, student-based approach to writing. Lively and appealing professional and student model essays allow you to observe and internalize the strategies of successful writing.

        This popular text has been updated with 10 new readings, carefully streamlined content to reduce length, and updated MLA and APA documentation guidelines.

About the Author:

Sue Ann Cairns received her Ph.D. in English at University of British Columbia, and went on to teach at a number of universities in both Canada and the U.S., including UBC and SFU, and a one-year stint in Shanghai, China. She has been teaching a variety of writing and literature courses at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia since 1990, where she teaches a variety of literature and writing courses. Sue Ann has published articles on teaching, as well as articles on children’s literature in Children’s Literature in Education. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she became a Canadian citizen in the 1990s, and presently lives in Langley, British Columbia with her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and new grandson.

 

Robert Fleming joined the department of English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 1993, and served as Dean for the Faculty of Humanities from 2003 until 2005.  Currently, he is the Associate Vice President Academic. In addition to teaching composition, literature, and critical theory within the English program, he has taught courses on work and society, power relations, and critical thinking within the Bachelor of Business Administration programs at Kwantlen. Before coming to Kwantlen, Robert Fleming also taught English language and literature at York University, Simon Fraser University, and Okanagan University College. Robert’s research includes presentations and publications on Canadian literature, post-colonialism, composition, curriculum / program development, and post-secondary policy and governance. Current projects include research on organizational culture, isomorphism, and institutional identity as pertains to the development of dual-sector universities throughout the U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Robert is also a member of several national and international scholarly societies.