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Essay Writing for Canadian Students, 9th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (October 25, 2021) © 2020

  • Roger Davis Red Deer Polytechnic
  • Laura K. Davis Red Deer Polytechnic
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In writing Essay Writing for Canadian Students, our primary goal was to create a resource for Canadian students that offers a fresh and unique approach to essay writing: one that is clear, concise, accessible, and inclusive. In this way, we sought to create an indispensable tool for students from diverse academic backgrounds. We believe that essay writing is a skill you can learn, rather than an inert talent. With this idea in mind, we are convinced that our systematic method - one that explains the stages and steps of the essay writing process - will work for most writers. If you are trying to figure out how to cope with essay assignments in your college or university courses, you are the student we had in mind when we wrote this book.

Part l Rhetoric

  1. Writing Essays: An Overview
  2. Reading Analytically and Writing Summaries
  3. Writing Analysis Essays: Clarifying Essay Topics and Gathering Material
  4. Writing Analysis Essays: Formulating a Thesis Statement and Drafting
  5. Writing Analysis Essays: Revising
  6. Writing Essays on Literature
  7. Writing Comparison Essays
  8. Writing Evaluation Essays
  9. Writing Persuasive Essays
  10. Gathering Material for Research Essays
  11. Writing Research Essays
  12. Writing Research Essays across the Curriculum

Part ll Readings

  1. Published Writings
  2. Abdou, Angie. “Summer Hockey Camp: What's Love Gotta Do with It?” (new)
  3. Alexander, Bruce K. “Reframing Canada's Drug Problem"
  4. Bringhurst, Robert. “The Persistence of Poetry and the Destruction of the World”
  5. Fisher, Mark. “Good for Nothing” (new)
  6. Forster, E. M. “My Wood”
  7. Gillespie, Curtis. “Learning to Unlearn: It's Time to Discard the Myths about Canada and Indigenous Peoples” (new)
  8. Helwig, Maggie. “Hunger” (new)
  9. Hooks, bell. “Feminist Politics: Where We Stand”
  10. King, Thomas. “Forget Columbus” (new)
  11. Klein, Naomi. “Science Says: Revolt!”
  12. Laurence, Margaret. “The Loons”
  13. Laurence, Margaret. “Time and the Narrative Voice”
  14. Mate, Gabor. “Embraced by the Needle”
  15. Morrison, Aimee. “Facebook and Coaxed Affordances”
  16. Orwell, George. “Shooting an Elephant”
  17. Robinson, Laura. “Girl Unprotected”
  18. Sanders,Scott Russell. “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”
  19. Satir, Virginia. “Systems: Open or Closed?”
  20. Stenson, Fred. “In Search of a Modest Proposal”
  21. Suzuki, David. “It Always Costs”
  22. Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal”
  23. Taylor, Charles. “All for One, and One for All”
  24. Van Camp, Richard. “Canada, You're like My Favourite One-Day Uncle” (new)
  25. Vonnegut, Kurt. “How to Write with Style” (new)
  26. Vowel, Chelsea. “What is Cultural Appropriation? Respecting Cultural Boundaries” (new)
  27. Woolf, Virginia. “[Shakespeare's Sister]”

Sample Essays

  1. Jones, C. “Perspectives on Addictions”
  2. Jones, D. “The Complexity of Power and Gender Relations: An Evaluative Essay on Scott Russell
  3. Sanders's ‘The Men We Carry in Our Minds'”
  4. Jones, V. “Acting Now: Practical Approaches to Mitigating Climate Change” (new)
  5. Smith, F. “Laurence's ‘The Loons': Insight or Stereotype?”
  6. Smith, L. “Like Me on Facebook: Identity Construction in Social Media”
  7. Smith, T. “Bodily Voices: Maggie Helwig's ‘Hunger'” (new)
  8. Strong, L. “Tone in William Carlos William's ‘This is Just to Say'”

Part lll Handbook for Final Editing

  1. Final Editing: The Process
  2. Grammar: Parts of Speech
  3. Writing Better Sentences
  4. Writing Better Paragraphs
  5. Creating an Appropriate Tone
  6. Punctuation
  7. Spelling and Mechanics
  8. Format

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