Includes index.

Contents: Writing: a first look -- Strategies for successful reading -- Planning and drafting your paper -- Revising and editing your paper -- Naration: Relating events -- Description: presenting impressions -- Process analysis: explaining how -- Illustration: making yourself clear -- Classification: grouping into categories -- Comparison: showing relationships -- Cause and effect: explaining why -- Definition: establishing boundaries -- Argument: convincing others -- Mixing the writing strategies -- Paragraphs -- Effective sentences -- Diction, tone, style -- The Essay -- Writing about literature -- Business letters memos, and resumes -- Documenting sources -- Additional research strategies: interviews, questionnaires, direct observations.