Publisher's Synopsis
The Sentence to Paragraph Workplace, First Canadian Edition, teaches students to master the basic building blocks of writing: the sentence and the paragraph. Successful sentence and paragraph construction are taught through four steps or parts in the text. Step One, Looking at the Whole provides an overview of the writing process. Step Two, Creating Effective Sentences provides a complete grammar review. Step Three, Understanding the Power of Words discusses the implications of diction and word choice. Step Four, Creating Effective Paragraphs teaches patterns for writing clear paragraphs and examines the major rhetorical modes. With the plentiful opportunities to write and revise their work that are provided in the text students will become better writers. Answers to selected exercises are found in the text and allow students to check their progress. Short readings throughout the text and fourteen additional readings at the end of the text that can act as models or points of departure for writing projects. Based on the successful American edition of the same text, the author has added Canadian popular and literary culture to the examples and readings.
