Easiest handbook to use. Trademark reference features — tabbed dividers, color-coded menus, documentation directories, and a user-friendly index - guide students quickly to the help they need.
Easiest handbook to understand. The clear, concise writing style and friendly tone make the book accessible to students with a range of abilities. The uncluttered design, along with charts and annotated visuals and models highlight important information throughout the book. Hand-edited examples let students see an error and its correction at a glance. More examples and excerpts than ever reflect Canadian culture and current events.
A handbook that has always responded to changes in the field. Growing diversity among academic writers was the inspiration for multilingual coverage, which appeared first in a Hacker handbook. Now with more colleges emphasizing writing in the disciplines, A Writer's Reference is a truly cross-disciplinary reference.