The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook

The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook is a streamlined version of the well-established Canadian Writer's Handbook, fifth edition. The concise edition uses the accessible, well-organized, and classroom-tested structure of the full volume, continuing to feature descriptions and examples of theentire writing process, from basic grammar, to constructing sentences and paragraphs, to pre-writing, to composing, and finally to proofreading and editing. The concise edition also includes the useful EAL icons from the main volume, which point to material beneficial to students learning English asan additional language. The discussion of achieving academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism is in a class of its own as is 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 in 1980. Judy Brown joined the project as an editorial consultant on the third edition; she is a senior instructor in the English department at UBC, where she teaches courses in Canadian and children's literature. Ramona Montagnes, also a member of UBC's English department, 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.