Includes index

I. Rhetoric: a college students guide to writing -- Critical thinking through reading, viewing, and writing -- Beginning the writing process -- Planning -- Drafting -- Revising -- Editing and proofreading -- Submitting writing and creating portfolios -- One writer's process -- II. Reader: strategies and samples -- Forms of college writing -- Narration, description, and reflection -- Analytical writing -- Definition -- Classification -- Process -- Comparison and contrast -- Cause and effect -- Reading literature: a case study in analysis -- Persuasive reading -- Strategies for argumentation and persuasion -- Arguing for positions, actions, and solutions -- Bonus online chapters -- Taking essay tests -- Writing for the workplace -- Preparing oral presentations -- Writing for the web -- III. Research and writing -- Getting started: from planning research to evaluating resources -- Conducting research: primary, library, web -- Building credibility: avoiding plagiarism -- drafting papers with documented research -- MLA style -- APA style -- III. Handbook -- Understanding grammar -- Constructing sentences -- Avoiding sentences errors -- Marking punctuation -- Checking mechanics -- Using the right word -- Multilingual and ESL guidelines.