Provides -- for each rhetorical purpose:

• Topic suggestions for writing assignments -- e.g., study skills strategies, the Civil War, the rainforest.
• Organizational techniques.
• Revising and editing strategies throughout the text -- including strategies for writing with a computer.

Provides peer review questions for each rhetorical context.

Features a unique Writers as Spiders section in each chapter -- with links to World Wide Web sites that reinforce grammatical/rhetorical principles covered in each chapter.

• Students will learn how to use the www while gaining access to writing topics, grammar instruction, and additional exercises.
• Some writing assignments are also tied to www searches.

Provides students with clear models of what their writing should imitate.

• Makes extensive use of student samples throughout.
• Features a capstone chapter featuring a gallery of student and professional samples.

Features plentiful lively, engaging practice exercises -- each in a rhetorical context -- to reinforce grammar and rhetorical concepts and the stages of the writing process.

• Includes answers to selected odd-numbered exercises.

Offers an emphasis on ESL instruction.

Includes an appendix on manuscript form and a glossary of key terms.