The First Canadian Edition of 75 Readings Plus breaks new ground for essay anthologies in Canada. Built on a solid foundation of international essays, the First Canadian Edition integrates material from European-Canadian, African-Canadian, Indo-Canadian, Native-Canadian, Caribbean-Canadian, and Asian-Canadian authors. By including essays from 29 Canadian writers from the well known (Margaret Atwood, Marshall McLuhan, and David Suzuki) to the emerging (Paul Seesequasis, Anurita Bains, and Samuel Metcalfe), 75 Readings Plus exhibits not only the variety of voices in Canada, but also the range of forms those voices take.
Rhetorically organized, 75 Readings Plus, First Canadian Edition, contains introductions to each chapter, a biographical background for each reading, and a number of end-of-reading questions and writing prompts design for today's student.