The text also offers students practical advice on resume writing, job interviews, and writing on a computer. Each chapter opens with short, simple essays which demonstrate the rhetorical mode followed by longer more complex readings.
Many essays are short enough to be read in class and used as writing prompts.
Chapters open with reading questions and conclude with writing guidelines and lists of suggested topics. Separate chapter on writing a synthesis and a critique A WebTutor section at the end of each chapter refers students to a text-specific Web site that includes supplemental writing assignments, links to helpful sites, and practical solutions for common writing problems. Updated and expanded information about composing papers on a computer provides practical help that students will use across the curriculum. Sample student papers, one per chapter, provide substance for class discussion and realistic writing models for students. New classic pieces by George Orwell and Joan Didion as well as new readings by Randy Shilts, Barbara Ehrenrich, and Juliet Schor.