This popular, student-friendly text is designed for writing courses that focus on the essay. The rhetoric and handbook components feature Langan's clear writing style and a wide range of writing assignments and activities that effectively reinforce the four essentials of good writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills. The newly revised edition offers expanded coverage of the writing process, new professional essays, new material on using the Internet, and more. The readings have also been updated to include more coverage of currently popular topics.