A Student Guide to College Composition

This book helps students succeed in composition by showing them:

How to be effective students
How to handle the most difficult challenges of academic writing
How to approach the most common writing assignments.
How to pass a timed writing test

William Murdick has a Ph. D. in rhetoric and is the author of three other writing textbooks, The Portable Business Writer (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), and The Portable Technical Writer (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), and College Writing: A First Course - Writing and Reasoning (Jain, 2006).

Note on the Second Edition: This expanded Second Edition includes full-chapter treatments of the five-paragraph theme and the cause-effect essay.