The new edition of this best-selling series combines comprehensive development and practice in the rhetorical modes while integrating instruction in reading, grammar, critical thinking, and vocabulary development.

-Developing Composition Skills focuses students on narrating, describing, analyzing,
comparing and contrasting, classifying, and evaluating at the paragraph level and offers a complete introduction that bridges the gap between the paragraph and the essay level.

-Refining Composition Skills develops essay writing skills needed for success at the
college level by thoroughly reviewing and presenting the following rhetorical modes:
compare and contrast, example, classification, process analysis, cause and effect, and argument