New to This Edition

• Increased coverage of the writing process
  • A new chapter, "The Writing Process," uses a student essay to demonstrate how prewriting and revision are essential parts of the act of writing.
  • Detailed strategies for prewriting and revision are now part of many writing assignments that accompany the nine rhetorical patterns of essay development in Part Two.
• "ESL Pointers" (Chapter 45) offers tips and activities for non-native speakers.
• A revised and updated chapter on using the library for research includes expanded coverage of using electronic resources, with a particular focus on the internet.
• Professional essays are provided in each of the nine rhetorical patterns chapters in Part Two, "Types of Essay Development."
• A new student research paper illustrates the latest MLA guidelines, including the documentation of electronic sources.
• 30 reading selections, 5 of which are new.
• The text provides a complete teaching package with an easy-to-use annotated instructor's edition, a new online learning center, student and instructor CD-ROMs, diagnostic test bank,and AllWrite!, the McGraw-Hill Writing Software program.