An updated and revised edition of Trudy Smoke's classic comprehensive writing skills book. Trudy Smoke's classic comprehensive writing text takes students step-by-step through the writing process and contains instruction in grammar, mechanics, and rhetorical forms. It prepares students for the reading and writing assignments they will encounter in their academic courses. This fourth edition features many new high-interest readings from a variety of genres, including personal, academic, journalistic, and fictional writing.

The revised and updated fourth edition of this classic book contains many new features and new readings. The author has selected seven new high interest pieces and retained five favorites from the third edition. The readings represent a wide variety of genres, with at least one academic reading per unit. A Writer's Workbook takes advanced level writing students systematically from reading to writing. Along the way, students read a high interest text; study the structure of academic essays; grapple with troublesome areas of grammar and writing mechanics; read and analyse student model essays; and write, revise and edit.