This workbook accompanies The Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. It provides exercises covering the topics in the main book, from the mechanics of building strong sentences and paragraphs to the intricacies of writing, formatting, and documenting research papers. With over 150 exercises, the workbook helps students gain a firm grasp of grammatical concepts and other topics. Exercises also help students improve their writing through practical application of the effective writing techniques discussed in the text.

Part I: Principles of Composition 1. 1-7 Working with paragraphs 2. 9a-b Finding and limiting subjects 3. 9c Thinking about audience and purpose 4. 9d Generating material 5. 9e Classifying and organizing data 6. 9f-j (1) Writing thesis statements and outlines 7. 9f-j (2) Revising weak outlines 8. 9f-j (3) Constructing and using outlines 9. 9-l Evaluating beginnings 10. 10 (1) Detecting faulty reasoning 11. 10 (2) Analyzing arguments and recognizing persuasive techniques 12. 10 (3) Including the opposition Part II: Understanding Sentences 13. 12a-b (1) Subject and predicate 14. 12a-b (2) Subject and predicate with modifiers and articles 15. 12d-e Sentence patterns 2A and 2B 16. 12f Sentence pattern 3 17. 12g-k Sentence patterns 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, and 6 18. 12k Sentence pattern 6 19. 12c-k (1) Identifying sentence patterns 20. 12c-k (2) Identifying sentence elements and patterns 21. 12m-n Dependent and independent clauses Answers Part III: Parts of Speech 22. 13b (1) Recognizing nouns 23. 13b (2) Recognizing nouns 24. 14e Using correct pronouns 25. 14 Identifying pronouns 26. 15d Avoiding gender bias 27. 15 (1) Pronoun-antecedent agreement 28. 15 (2) Correcting agreement errors 29. 16 (1) Correcting faulty pronoun reference 30. 16 (2) Correcting faulty pronoun reference 31. 17a (1) Identifying verb types 32. 17a (2) Recognizing subjective complements 33. 17b Inflecting verbs 34. 17c (1) Using irregular verbs 35. 17c (2) Using irregular verbs 36. 17e Modal auxiliary verbs 37. 17g Verb tense 38. 17-l (1) Revising passive voice 39. 17-l (2) Revising passive voice 40. 17-I (3) Revising passive voice 41. 18 (1) Subject-verb agreement 42. 18 (2) Correcting faulty subject-verb agreement 43. 18 (3) Correcting faulty subject-verb agreement 44. 19b Using descriptive adjectives 45. 19c Using articles 46. 19e Order of adjectives 47. 20 Identifying adverbs 48. 19-20 (1) Recognizing adjectives and adverbs 49. 19-20 (2) Correcting misused adjectives and adverbs 50. 19-20 (3) Using adjectival and adverbial modifiers 51. 21a Identifying infinitive phrases 52. 21d-e Using participles 53. 21 (1) Identifying verbal phrases 54. 21 (2) Recognizing verbals 55. 21 (3) Using verbals 56. 21 (4) Writing with verbals 57. 21 (5) Reducing clauses 58. 21 (6) Reducing clauses to phrases 59. 21 (7) Using absolute phrases 60. 21 (8) Using absolute phrases 61. 22a-c (1) Identifying prepositions 62. 22a-c (2) Recognizing prepositional phrases 63. 22a-c (3) Using prepositional phrases 64. 23a Using coordinating conjunctions 65. 23c (1) Recognizing subordinate clauses 66. 23c (2) Using subordinating conjunctions 67. 23c (3) Writing subordinate clauses 68. 23 (1) Identifying conjunctions 69. 23 (2) Writing with conjunctions 70. 13-24 Recognizing parts of speech 71. Review exercises: Part III Answers Part IV: Writing Effective Sentences 72. 27a Lengthening sentences 73. 27b Shortening sentences 74. 28 Sentence variety 75. 29 Emphasis in sentences 76. 27-29 Sentence length, variety, and emphasis 77. 32 (1) Correcting sentence fragments 78. 32 (2) Correcting sentence fragments 79. 35 (1) Correcting misplaced modifiers 80. 35 (2) Correcting misplaced modifiers 81. 36 (1) Correcting dangling modifiers 82. 36 (2) Correcting dangling modifiers 83. 32-36 Review of common sentence errors 84. 37 Correcting mixed constructions 85. 38 Improving alignment 86. 39 Eliminating shifts 87. 40 Correcting faulty parallelism 88. 41 (1) Using subordination 89. 41 (2) Correcting faulty coordination 90. 42 Improving logic 91. Review exercises: Parts II, III, and IV Answers Part V: Punctuation 92. 43a-b The comma, independent clauses, and coordinating conjunctions 93. 43c-d Punctuating parallel adjectives and series 94. 43e (1) Punctuating adverbial clauses 95. 43e (2) Punctuating opening and closing words and phrases 96. 43e (3) Punctuating words, phrases, and adverbial clauses 97. 43f (1) Punctuating nonrestrictive elements 98. 43f (2) Identifying and punctuating nonrestrictive and restrictive elements 99. 43 (1) Using commas 100. 43 (2) Extra punctuation practice: the comma 101. 44 The semicolon 102. 43-45 Comma, semicolon, or colon 103. 44-46 Using the semicolon, colon, and dash 104. 43g, 46, 47 Punctuating sentence interrupters 105. 43-46 Extra punctuation practice 106. 52 Quotation marks 107. 54a-b (also 33-34) (1) Correcting comma splices and run-on sentences 108. 54a-b (also 33-34) (2) Correcting comma splices and run-on sentences 109. 54a-b (also 33-34) (3) Correcting comma splices and run-on sentences 110. 43-54 (1) Punctuation review: Correcting punctuation 111. 43-54 (2) Punctuation review: Using punctuation 112. 43-54 (3) Punctuation review: Adding punctuation 113. 43-54 (4) Punctuation review: Correcting punctuation Answers Part VI: Mechanics and Spelling 114. 56 Using abbreviations correctly 115. 57-59 Capitalization, titles, and italics 116. 61k (1) Using hyphens 117. 61k (2) Using hyphens 118. 61-l Forming plurals 119. 61-l-n (1) Using apostrophes 120. 61-l-n (2) Using apostrophes 121. 62 Correcting misspellings 122. Review exercise: Part VI Answers Part VII: Diction 123. 64a-b (1) Using formal diction 124. 64a-b (2) Slang, colloquialisms, and informal expressions 125. 64c (1) Thinking about \"big\" words 126. 64c (2) Eliminating pretentious diction 127. 66 (1) Using specific diction 128. 66 (2) Being concrete and specific 129. 67 Recognizing connotation 130. 68 Avoiding euphemisms 131. 69 (1) Avoiding wrong words 132. 69 (2) Avoiding wrong words 133. 70 (1) Correcting idioms 134. 70 (2) Correcting idioms 135. 71c Cutting redundancy 136. 71a-c (1) Reducing wordiness 137. 71a-c (2) Reducing wordiness by combining sentences 138. 71a-d Reducing wordiness, redundancy, and ready-made phrases 139. 71e Eliminating cliches 140. 71g Evaluating nouns used as adjectives 141. 72 Usage 142. 63-72 Sentence revisions 143. Review exercise: Part VII Answers Part VIII: Research, Writing, and Documentation 144. 78 Paraphrasing and summarizing 145. 79a Documenting in MLA 146. 79b Documenting in APA Answers