Suggested Readings and Useful Websites

Adams, Ian. 1967. “The Lonely Death of Chanie Wenjack.” Maclean’s. February 1. Accessed June 20, 2018, http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-lonely-death-of-chanie-wenjack/

Barber, Katherine. 2004. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

———. 2007. Only in Canada, You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Barber, Katherine, Heather Fitzgerald, Tom Howell, and Robert Pontisso, eds. 2006. Paperback Oxford Canadian Dictionary, 2nd edn. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Editing Canadian English: The Essential Canadian Guide Revised and Updated. 2000. 2nd edn. Toronto: Editors’ Association of Canada. (First published by Macfarlane Walter and Ross in 2000; second printing published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003).

McCarten, James, ed. 2015. The Canadian Press Caps and Spelling, 21th edn. Toronto: The Canadian Press.

———. 2017. The Canadian Press Stylebook: A Guide for Writers and Editors, 18th edn. Toronto: The Canadian Press.

Messenger, William E., et al., eds. 2008. Canadian Writer’s Handbook, 5th edn. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Porter, Jody. 2016. “Meet the Journalist Who Inspired Gord Downie and Joseph Boyden to Write about Chanie Wenjack.” CBC News. October 21. Accessed June 20, 2018, http://www.cbc.ca/ news/canada/thunder-bay/ian-adams-gord-downie-1.3813737

Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E.B. (2009). The Elements of Style, 4th edn. New York: Macmillan.

Truss, Lynne. 2003. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. New York: Penguin.

Zinsser, William. 2006. On Writing Well, 6th edn. New York: HarperCollins.

The Canadian Press: http://www.thecanadianpress.com

Editors’ Association of Canada: http://www.editors.ca/index.htm

Journalist’s Resource: https://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/style/copyediting-for-reporters

Purdue Online Writing Lab: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Sources for Students: http://www.sources.com/students.htm

Additional Online Resources

Norris, Mary. 2016. “The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker’s Comma Queen.” Ted2016. Accessed January 3, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rToBZSrxjgM

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