The Harbrace Pocket Guide for Canadians offers an alternative to the more comprehensive handbooks available. While maintaining the clear presentation and organization of The Harbrace Handbook for Canadians, the Pocket Guide contains fewer chapters and less description. Despite its brevity, it still includes a glossary, a rhetoric component, and information for ESL students.

For over fifty years, this classic, grammar-driven handbook has taught millions of students the best way to write and revise their papers.

The revised edition ofThe Canadian Stylecontinues to set the standard for English language usage in Canada. This reasonably priced handbook is cross-referenced, and indexed chapters make it easy to find the information you need. It provides concise, up-to-date answers to a host of questions on abbreviations, hyphenation, word division, spelling, the use of capital letters, italics, punctuation, quotations, prepositional usage, and frequently misused or confused words. It deals with metric units, dates and other numerical expressions, and also covers letter, memo and report formats, notes, indexes and bibliographies, and geographical names. New chapters give techniques for writing clearly and concisely, editing documents, and avoiding stereotyping in communications. There is even an appendix on how to present French words in an English text. The Canadian Styleis an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people - in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today.

Identifies parts of the handbook useful for English as a second language students.

For the new millennium, Harcourt College Publishers now offers a Harbrace for everyone with the 14th edition of the HodgesAE; Harbrace and a totally new handbook, The WriterAE;s Harbraces. The WriterAE;s Harbrace Handbook offers, for the first time, a writing driven approach while maintaining the hallmark of the Harbrace Handbook-solid coverage of grammar and mechanics."