This text will help you produce writing that is both technically correct and rich in content. It has visual appeal, unique features, and integrated ESL content to help both native and nonnative students of varying skill levels. The companion website, MyCanadianCompLab, contains additional chapters and exercises to help improve your writing skills. The product of numerous reviews and feedback from over 200 developmental writing instructors, the updated Second Canadian Edition continues to meet the diverse needs of today's students.

The Canadian Writer's World: Paragraphs & Essays, 3rd Canadian edition, builds on the success of Lynn Gaetz, Suneeti Phadke, and Rhonda Sandberg's ground-breaking first edition. The authors' innovative instruction addresses the diverse needs of today's students, seamlessly integrating materials for native and nonnative speakers, with a design that grabs students' attention and illustrates concepts. The text's exercises and activities encourage active participation in the learning process. KEY TOPICS: Exploring; Developing;Revising and Editing;Illustration;Narration;Description;Process;Definition;Classification;Comparison and Contrast;Cause and Effect;Argument;Writing the Essay;Essay Patterns;Enhancing Your Writing with Research;Simple Sentences;Compound Sentences;Complex Sentences;Sentence Variety;Fragments;Run-Ons;Faculty Parallel Structure;Present and Past Tenses;Past Participles;Other Verb Forms;Subject-Verb Agreement;Tense Consistency;Nouns, Determiners, and Prepositions;Pronouns;Adjectives and Adverbs;Mistakes with Modifiers;Exact Language;Spelling and Commonly Confused Words;Commas;Apostrophe, Quotation Marks, and Titles;Capitalization and Other Punctuation Marks;Editing Paragraphs and Essays;From Readings to Writing MARKET: Appropriate for Developmental Writing - Paragraph / Essay Courses.

The Writer’s World series was written to address the diverse needs of today’s students: students whose first language is not English, students who respond favorably to visuals, and students who have varying skill levels.

A Young Writer's World is a book about creating environments and opportunities that foster children's engagement with print, writing, and literacy.

MEMORIA: An Anthology of Portuguese Canadian Writers showcases contemporary fiction, nonfiction and poetry that reflect the changing Portuguese Canadian community while supporting new voices in the diaspora. Contributors include Clemente Alves, Edith Baguinho, Nelia Botelho, Esmeralda Cabral, Tony Correia, paulo da costa, Humberto da Silva, Aida Jordão, Irene Marques, Antonio M. Marques, Emanuel Melo, Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto, Paul Serralheiro, Richard Simas, and Laureano Soares. Foreword by noted academic and author Onésimo T. Almedia.

One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair. The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media—newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources—that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. The author explains the role local black community media has played in the promotion of African American–owned beauty products; how the segmentation of beauty culture (i.e., the sale of black beauty products on store shelves labelled “ethnic hair care”) occurred in Canada; and how black beauty culture, which was generally seen as a small niche market before the 1970s, entered Canada’s mainstream by way of department stores, drugstores, and big-box retailers. Beauty in a Box uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy to explore the history of black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.

From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was a loyal Christian who died a martyr’s death. But soon after the best-selling novel appeared, theatre troupes across North America and Europe transformed Stowe’s story into minstrel shows featuring white men in blackface. In Uncle, Cheryl Thompson traces Tom’s journey from literary character to racial trope. She explores how Uncle Tom came to be and exposes the relentless reworking of Uncle Tom into a nostalgic, racial metaphor with the power to shape how we see Black men, a distortion visible in everything from Uncle Ben and Rastus The Cream of Wheat chef to Shirley Temple and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson to Bill Cosby. In Donald Trump’s post-truth America, where nostalgia is used as a political tool to rewrite history, Uncle makes the case for why understanding the production of racial stereotypes matters more than ever before.