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Contents

Readings Listed by Method of Developing Ideas
Student/Example Essays Listed by Theme
Write of Way Web Pages
To the Student
To the Instructor
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to the COSA Formula for Good Writing
1.1 Improve Your Writing by Studying Models
1.2 Improve Your Writing by Collaborative Composing
1.3 Improve Your Writing by Analyzing a Brief Essay
1.4 Create an Essay
1.5 Some Concluding Thoughts
Box 1-1 Make Your Writing Look Great
Part 1: Creating the Content of Effective Documents
Chapter 2: Creating and Supporting Your Thesis
2.1 Decide What to Write About
2.2 Write about an Interesting Topic
2.3 Write about One Topic at a Time: Create Unity
2.4 Make a Point about Your Topic: Create a Thesis
2.5 Support Your Thesis
Box 2-1 Learn More about Your Topic
Box 2-2 Take Notes to Create Great Content
2.6 Outline the Support for Your Thesis
2.7 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 3: Analyzing Your Audience
3.1 Meet Your Audience’s Information Needs
3.2 Create the Right Tone for Your Audience
3.3 Some Concluding Thoughts
Part 2: Organizing Effective Documents
Chapter 4: Writing the Paragraphs
4.1 What Is a Paragraph?
4.2 Begin Paragraphs with Topic Sentences
4.3 Limit Each Paragraph to One Main Idea
4.4 Organize Support within Your Paragraphs
4.5 Ensure Coherence within Paragraphs
4.6 Finish Paragraphs with Concluding Sentences
4.7 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 5: Organizing Brief Essays
5.1 Moving from Single Paragraphs to Essays
5.2 The Unique Structure of Introductory Paragraphs
5.3 Organize the Support Paragraphs
Box 5-1 Ensure Coherence between Paragraphs
5.4 The Unique Structure of Concluding Paragraphs
5.5 Putting it All Together to Write Brief Essays
5.6 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 6: Developing Your Ideas in Narrative and Descriptive Essays
6.1 Narrating
6.2 Describing
6.3 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 7: Developing Your Ideas in Expository and Persuasive Essays
7.1 Explaining Processes
7.2 Classifying
7.3 Explaining Causes and Effects
7.4 Comparing and Contrasting
7.5 Arguing and Persuading
7.6 Some Concluding Thoughts
Part 3: From Brief Essays to Research Essays—and Beyond!
Chapter 8: Writing Research Essays
8.1 Study the Content of a Sample Research Essay
Box 8-1 Researching on the Internet
8.2 Study the Organization of a Sample Research Essay
8.3 Study the Appearance of a Sample Research Essay
8.4 Summary of the Steps for Writing a Research Essay
8.5 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 9: Writing Research Essays in MLA Style
9.1 Example of an MLA-Style Essay: “Canada’s One-Tier Health Care Is the Better System”
9.2 Document Sources in the Text
9.3 Document Sources in the List of Works Cited
9.4 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter Ten: Writing Research Essays in APA Style
10.1 Example of an APA-Style Essay: “Canada’s One-Tier Health Care Is the Better System”
10.2 Document Sources in the Text
10.3 Document Sources in the References Section
10.4 Some Concluding Thoughts
Part 4: Standard Written Canadian English
Chapter 11: The Fundamentals: Creating Complete Sentences with
Correct Agreement
11.1 Avoid Fragments
11.2 Divide Fused Sentences by Fully Separating Them
11.3 Mend Comma Splices
11.4 Separate Some Independent Clauses with a Comma and
a Conjunction
11.5 Separate Some Independent Clauses with a Semicolon
11.6 Separate Some Independent Clauses with Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs (or Transition Phrases)
11.7 Ensure Agreement of Subject and Verb in Person
11.8 Ensure Agreement of Subject and Verb in Number
11.9 Create Logical Constructions
11.10 Ensure Pronoun–Antecedent Agreement in Person
11.11 Ensure Pronoun–Antecedent Agreement in Number
11.12 Ensure Pronoun–Antecedent Agreement in Gender
11.13 Place Modifiers Correctly
11.14 Create Parallelism
11.15 Use Mature Sentence Structure
11.16 Vary the Sentence Structure
11.17 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 12: Observing Other Basic Conventions of Standard Written Canadian English
12.1 Use the Correct Pronoun Case
12.2 Make Clear References to Nouns
12.3 Use the Correct Tense
12.4 Use Tense Consistently and Logically
12.5 Use the Correct Verb Mood
12.6 Favour the Active Voice
12.7 Use Adjectives to Modify Nouns
12.8 Use Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Correctly
12.9 Use Adverbs to Modify Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs
12.10 Use Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Correctly
12.11 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 13: Checking Your Punctuation
13.1 Using the Apostrophe
13.2 Using Brackets
13.3 Using the Colon
13.4 Using the Comma
13.5 Using the Dash
13.6 Using Ellipsis Dots
13.7 Using the Exclamation Point
13.8 Using the Hyphen
13.9 Using Parentheses
13.10 Using the Period
13.11 Using the Question Mark
13.12 Using Quotation Marks
13.13 Using the Semicolon
13.14 Using the Slash
13.15 Some Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 14: Getting the Details Right: More Conventions to Control Before You Leave College
14.1 Abbreviating
14.2 Capitalizing
14.3 Enumerating
14.4 Italicizing and Underlining
14.5 Spelling
14.6 Syllabicating
14.7 Some Concluding Thoughts
Part 5: Readings
Chapter 15: How the Pros Develop Ideas in Essays
Ourselves
15.1 You Can Learn to Read Better by Douglas B. Rogers
15.2 Seeking Mecca in Inuvik by Allen Abel
15.3 Proof You Procrastinate at Your Peril by Jay Ingram
15.4 Ten Thousand Languages by Gwynne Dyer
15.5 Failing Young Kids Jeopardizes Their Future at School by Suzanne Ziegler
15.6 Overcoming the Odds: Adults with Learning Disabilities by Isabel Shessel
15.7 How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere by Larry King
15.8 Stop Fighting with Your Kids: A 10-Point Plan for Families by Elizabeth Airdrie
15.9 Losing Weight Easy as 1, 2, 3 by Dr. Gifford-Jones
Our Stories
15.10 Turkey and Tamarind Chutney by Anita Rau Badami
15.11 Grateful That I Can’t Remember by Beth Hayhoe
15.12 The Next Great Controversy Will Be Over a Move to Toughen the Divorce Laws by Ted Byfield
15.13 Dealing with the Inevitable by Catherine Ford
15.14 Singing Along With My Conscience by Michael Soucie
15.15 Let’s Minimize Our Bigotry and Maximize Our Humanity by T. Sher Singh
15.16 Hard Core Logo: A Punker’s Paradise by John Law
15.17 I Know How Our Youngsters Feel by Phil Fontaine
15.18 An Encounter with a Pirate by Ruth Lemke
Our Community
15.19 Who Needs Marriage Anyway by Margaret Wente
15.20 What’s In the Fridge? A Lesson by David Boyd
15.21 You, Me, Canada—We All Can Have Sponsors by Naomi Klein
15.22 The Case for Excluding Tainted Evidence by A. Alan Borovoy
15.23 Why Quebec Is Always Such a Force in Ottawa by Lysiane Gagnon
15.24 Stopping Sexual Abuse in Sport: What Canada’s Coaching Leaders Are Doing by John Bales and Tom Kinsman
15.25 Maritime Union: Politicians Must Rise Above Parochialism to Avoid Disaster by Harry Bruce
15.26 Let’s Outlaw Any Hitting of Children by Michele Landsberg
15.27 How Much Right Has a Beggar to Beg? by Arthur Schafer
15.28 Some Concluding Thoughts
Appendix A: Fundamentals of Grammar
A.1 Parts of Speech
A.2 Parts of Sentences
A.3 The Structure of Sentences
A.4 The Functions of Sentences
A.5 Some Concluding Thoughts
Appendix B: Answers to Activities
Works Cited
Credits
Index