Academic Writing for Success – Canadian Edition is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading and critical thinking skills.  This book addresses each concept with clear, concise, and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate learning.

Each chapter allows students to demonstrate mastery of the principles of quality writing.  This book addresses a range of writing levels and abilities, helping each student prepare for the work they will do in other courses.  Constant reinforcement is provided through examples and exercises, and the text involves students in the learning process through reading, problem solving, practicing, listening, and experiencing the writing process.

Thought provoking scenarios and examples provide challenges and opportunities for collaboration and interaction.   These exercises are especially helpful for working with groups of students.  Clear exercises teach sentence and paragraph writing skills that lead to common English composition and research essays and reports.

Features

• Each chapter begins with an opportunity to reflect on the subject with a number of questions.
• Exercises are integrated into each segment.  Each concept is immediately reinforced as soon as it is introduced to keep students on track.
• Exercises are designed to facilitate interaction and collaboration.  This allows for peer-peer engagement, development of interpersonal skills, and promotion of critical thinking skills.
• Exercises that involve self editing and collaborative writing are featured.  This feature develops and promotes student interest in the knowledge areas and content
• There are clear internal summaries and effective displays of information.  This contributes to ease of access to information and increases students’ ability to locate desired content.
• Each chapter ends with opportunities for further reflection, with activities that can be performed independently or during class time, based on instructor preferences.

Inclusivity Statement

This book takes an inclusive approach to communication. It has the following goals:

• To meet the needs of a diverse student population, including English language learners, students from diverse cultural backgrounds, mature students, and students who are LGBTQ+, neurodiverse and/or disabled. The author has taken care to include activities, examples and reflection exercises tailored to a wide range of students, and to collaborate with communicators from diverse backgrounds.
• To encourage students to reflect on their own attitudes, beliefs and assumptions about communication, and to connect their learning to other courses and/or their workplace experience. Each chapter begins with a ‘Navigating Your Understanding’ section so that students can reflect individually or in a learning journal and ends with suggested reflection activities that an instructor can assign.
• To prepare students for a diverse workforce by including the voices of communicators from many different backgrounds.

Thank You

This book is a remix of two Open Educational Resources, Writing for Success – 1st Canadian H5P Edition by Tara Horkoff and Business Writing for Everyone by Arley Cruthers.  Both textbooks were made in collaboration with other authors and student editors and were remixed with additions by Carrie Fraser.  I would like to thank the previous authors for providing such excellent resources to build this book from.

I would like to thank Tricia Bonner, Flexible Learning and Open Education Strategist and Lauren Stitt, student, for their contributions to this project.  I would also like to thank Neil Kerby, Amanda Baskwill, and Tom Deakin for their support of this project.