Real Writing with Readings: Paragraphs and Essays for College, Work, and Everyday Life

Real writing delivers a powerful message to the students: good writing skills are both attainable and essential. Concise four basics boxes and engaging paragraph-and essay-writing chapters present the writing process in clear, easy-to-follow steps. Relevant readings that resonate with students' everyday lives are threaded throughout, with examples ranging from student papers to real workplace samples and professional essays. The four most serious errors and other sentence-level chapters cover grammar in a lively and supportive way, with plenty of opportunities for practice and application.