Bare Essentials Plus

This book is part of the proven Essentials series,a comprehensive set of texts that have helped more than half million Canadian students learn to write for college and the workplace, the "plus" in the title refers to a unit devoted specifically to the needs of second-language learners-a growing segment of the college population in many parts of Canada. The book covers all the skills indispensable to effective written communication: organization,grammar,spelling, and punctuation. For maximum flexibility,unit topics are treated independently but present"essential" topics in a traditional,cumulative order. With straightforward explanations,copious examples and plenty of exercises,the third edition of the book provides all the skills needed to help students progress form basic sentence correctness through paragraph development to the organization and presentation of short college papers.