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"Mixing memoir, scholarship, and social commentary, The Trouble With Words uses the ancient technique of commonplacing to produce a series of essays on why language and learning still matter in a world awash in lies, a world increasingly described, blush-free, as ""post-truth."" It seeks to counteract the idea that words no longer matter and, while entertaining and engaging readers, to encourage them to take up the practice of keeping a commonplace book-and maybe even to write their own. The book's final chapter offers tips on how best to keep a commonplace book."

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Praise for Practical Grammar Practical Grammar provides excellent in-depth coverage of grammar basics and lives up to its promise to do so in a 'practical' way. ... My students like this book, citing in particular its clear explanations, helpful examples, and easy-to-follow organization. - Phyllis Rozendal, York University In the April [2016] edition of Pen to Paper's Technical Writer Forum, we celebrate author Maxine Ruvinsky, and her book, Practical Grammar, A Canadian Writer's Resource. ... Ruvinsky describes a writing process that offers the key to producing great writing. Praise for Practical Writing I like the respect that this text shows the readers and the different approach it takes . . . I think the skills outlined i n this text would be very helpful to my students. - Heather Wright, Conestoga College I think the modelling exercises are really wonderful. ... They are tremendously useful to students. To have modelling so focal in the book makes it very valuable. - Sheila M. Ross, Capilano University Praise for Investigative Reporting in Canada Investigative Reporting in Canada is recommended reading for anyone who wants to share the passion, toil, and bravery that goes into some of the country's best reporting. It will have a prominent place on my bookshelf. - Fred Vallance Jones, Media magazine, Winter 2008. Praise for the author I think within Maxine's character, is a phenomenal intellect, but along with the phenomenal intellect, she has passion, compassion and commitment. She has that as an investigative journalist, as a writer and as a teacher. ... She brings those things to her teaching and I think that inspires students. - Eileen Leier, The Omega, 2015

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Maxine Ruvinsky is a retired journalist and professor of journalism. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from McGill University in Montreal, and worked for decades in print journalism before moving west to teach journalism at a small BC university's School of Journalism. She is the author of several books published by Oxford University Press: Practical Grammar, Practical Writing, and Investigative Reporting in Canada. In 2015, she came home to Montreal, where she continues to write, mostly for pleasure.

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