Includes appendices and index.

Readings in this volume are also divided by subject:

Work and Leisure;

Learning and Education;

Mainly Canadian;

Communication and Writing;

The Contemporary Scene;

Media and the Arts;

Science, Technology, and the Environment, and

Ethics and Morality.

Includes appendices and index.

"Essay Essentials with Readings, Enhanced Sixth Edition, is designed for all Canadian post-secondary students who are learning to write academic and professional prose. The book has been substantially revised and expanded to inclusively fit the needs of students who want to succeed at school and who require the ability to bring their developed writing skills to the workplace." (xii, Preface)

CONTENTS :

Part 1. Understanding the Elements of Good Writing

1. Understanding the Audience, Understanding Yourself - Addressing Your Readers
- Reflecting Yourself
- Levels of Standard English Writing
- Reading: Matthew McKinnon, "The Needle and the Damage Done"

2. Understanding the Role of Reading as a Basic Writing Component - Start with Good Reading Skills
- Skimming
- Scanning
- A Note on Speedreading and Increasing Your Reading Speed
- Summary

3. Understanding the Role of Critical Thinking - The Interpretive Critical Thinking Model
- The Toulmin Method of Analysis

Part 2. Beginning the Writing Process

4. Organizing Your Work and Preparing for Writing - Think about Your Subject
- Make Your Subject Significant
- Make Your Subject Single
- Make Your Subject Specific
- Make Your Subject Supportable
- Organizing Subject Ideas into Main Points
- Generating Main Points: The Bottom-Up Approach
- Generating Main Points: The Top-Down Approach - Testing Your Main Points

5. Developing the Main Points and Writing an Outline - Organizing Your Main Points
- Preparing the Outline
- Outline Format

6. Writing the Thesis Statement - Phrasing Your Statement of Subject

- Phrasing the Main Points
- Putting the Thesis Elsewhere in Your Paper

Part 3. Drafting Your Work

7. Understanding the Paragraph - What Does a Paragraph Actually Look Like?
- How Does a Paragraph Function?
- How Long Should a Paragraph Be?
- Crafting the Topic Sentence
- Developing the Topic
- How Do You End a Paragraph?

8. Writing Introductions and Conclusions - The Introductory Paragraph
- Getting and Holding Yoru Readers' Attention
- The Concluding Paragraph

9. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting - Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting
- Additional Suggestions for Writing

10. Developing Unity, Coherence, and Tone
- Unity
- Coherence
- Tone

11. Choosing the Right Words
- The Writer's Toolkit
- The Seven Deadly Errors of Writing
- Reading: Russell Baker, "Little Red Riding Hood Revisited"

Part 4. Understanding Common Writing Styles

12. Academic and Workplace Writing
- Four Ideas to Consider as You Develop Yoru Writing
- Choosing an Overall Writing Strategy
- Differences between Workplace and Academic Writing

13. Analytical Writing: Process Analysis, Causal Analysis, and Classification and Division - Analytical Writing
- Process Analysis
- Reading: Brian Green, "How To Play Winning Tennis"
- Causal Analysis
- Reading: Trina Piscatelli, "The Slender Trap"
- Classification and Division
- Reading: Alice Tam, "On-the-Job Training"

14. Persuasive Writing: Description, Narration, and Example
- Description
- Narration
- Example
- Putting Description, Narration, and Example to Use
- Reading: Amanda van der Heiden, "Looking Both Ways"

15. Comparison and Contrast - Tips for Writing a Comparison or Contrast Paper
- Readings: D'Arcy McHayle, "The Canadian Climate"
- Aniko Hencz, "Shopping Around"

16. Argumentation
- Choose Yoru Issue Carefully
- Consider Your Audience
- Identify Your Purpose
- Organize Your Ideas
- Tips for Writing Argumentation
- Readings: Aliki Tryphonopoulos, "A City for Students"
- Walter Isaacs, "Of Pain, Predators, and Pleasure"

Part 5. Writing Research Papers

17. Preparing for Research and Choosing a Research Method - Tips for Writing a Research Paper
- Ways of Doing Research

18. Formatting a Research Paper - Taking Good Research Notes for Informative Writing
- Basic Formatting Guidelines
- Formatting an MLA-Style Research Paper
- Formatting an APA-Style Research Paper
- Projecting an Image

19. Documenting Your Sources
- Introduction: The Two-Part Principle of Documentation
- The MLA Style
- The APA Style

20. Writing in the Workplace: Memos, Letters, and Short Reports
- Memos
- Letters
- Short Reports

Part 6. Undertaking the Revision Process

21. Rewriting Your Work
- The Three Steps of Revision
- Step 1: Rewriting

22. Editing and Proofreading Your Work
- Step 2: Editing
- Step 3: Proofreading
- Working with Rubrics

Part 7. Readings - Richard Lederer: "How I Write"
- Malcolm Gladwell, "How to Be a Success"
- Rick Groen, "The Magic of Moviegoing"
- Sara R. Howrth, "The Gas-Electric Hybrid Demystified"
- Victor Chen, "Justice and Journalism"
- Olive Skene Johnson. "For Minorities, Timing Is Everything"
- Deenu Parmar, "Labouring the Walmart Way"
- Gabor Maté, "Embraced by the Needle"
- Rubi Garyfalakis, "No Sweat?"
- Hal Niedzviecki, "Stupid Jobs Are Good to Relax With"
- Maria Amuchastegui, "Farming It Out"
- Sam McNerney, "Is Creativity Sexy? The Evolutionary Advantages of Artistic Thinking"
- Navneet Alang, "Online Freedom Will Depend on Deeper Forms of Web Literacy"
- Scott Adams, "The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do"

- Annie Murphy Paul, "Your Brain on Fiction"

Part 8. Workbook

23. A Review of the Basics - How to Use This Workbook
- Cracking the Sentence Code
- Solving Sentence-Fragment Problems
- Solving Run-On Problems
- Solving Modifier Problems
- The Parallelism Principle
- Refining by Combining

24. Grammar
- Mastering Subject-Verb Agreement
- Using Verbs Effectively
- Solving Pronoun Problems

25. Punctuation
- The Comma
- The Semicolon
- The Colon
- Quotation Marks
- The Question Mark
- The Exclamation Mark
- Dashes and Parentheses

26. Spelling - Hazardous Homonyms
- The Apostrophe
- The Hyphen
- Capital Letters
- Numbers

Appendix A. List of Terms: A Vocabulary of Writing

Appendix B. Answers for Selected Exercises