For one/two-semester Freshman Composition courses. This best-selling writing guide integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies into every chapter, offering students-as well as new instructors-the clearest explanation of writing. In addition to emphasizing critical reading, every major chapter contains professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, collaborative activities, peer-response guidelines, revision suggestions, and a student essay in each chapter contains writing process materials (outlines, audience analysis, interview notes, drafts, revision plans, etc.).