Essay Writing for Canadian Students, 10th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (April 10, 2024) © 2025

  • 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. “Reframing Canada’s Drug Problem” by Bruce K. Alexander
  2. “Feminism for the 99 Percent: A Manifesto“ by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser
  3. “An Alberta Rose for Black Canada” by Bertrand Bickersteth
  4. “Police Abolition in Canada: A Black, Queer, Non‐Binary Demand.” by Cicely Belle Blain
  5. “The Persistence of Poetry and the Destruction of the World” by Robert Bringhurst
  6. “Facing the Sun” by Cameron, Claire
  7. “Subject‐Verb‐Race” by Wayde Compton
  8. “Learning to Unlearn: It’s Time to Discard the Myths about Canada and Indigenous Peoples” by Curtis
  9. Gillespie “The Facts Are the Facts” by Katharine Hayhoe
  10. “Hunger” by Maggie Helwig
  11. “Disability: Is There a Right Way to Be Deaf?” by Sarah Katz
  12. “Forget Columbus” by Thomas King
  13. “Science Says: Revolt!” by Naomi Klein
  14. “Embraced by the Needle” by Gabor Maté
  15. "Facebook and Coaxed Affordances" by Aimée Morrison
  16. “Girl Unprotected” by Laura Robinson
  17. “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” by Scott Russell Sanders
  18. “It Always Costs” by David Suzuki
  19. “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
  20. "Postscript" by Desmond Tutu
  21. “Canada, You’re like My Favourite One‐Day Uncle and I Love You” by Richard Van Camp
  22. “How to Write with Style” by Kurt Vonnegut
  23. “What Is Cultural Appropriation? Respecting Cultural Boundaries” by Chelsea Vowel
  24. “Faking It” by Fred Wah

Sample Essays

  1. “Bodily Voices: Maggie Helwig’s “Hunger”” by J. Cabot
  2. “Acting Now: Practical Approaches to Mitigating Climate Change” by V. Huang
  3. “Perspectives on Addictions” by C. Mendez
  4. “Unmarked” History: Facts, Fictions, and Frames in Thomas King’s “Forget Columbus” by S. Obisanya
  5. “Like Me on Facebook: Identity Construction in Social Media” by F. Patel
  6. “The Complexity of Power and Gender Relations: An Evaluative Essay on Scott Russell Sanders’s “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”” by D. Ramadan
  7. “Tone in William Carlos William’s ‘This is Just to Say’” by L. Strong

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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