This time-honored, comprehensive program for basic writers features a unique instructional format that combines the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, rhetoric, vocabulary, and spelling, with contemporary topics of interest and participatory exercises that require readers to get fully involved by creating, changing, rewriting, or correcting. Using an integrated "whole language" approach and continual reinforcement of skills, this book caters to users intelligence and interests. KEY TOPICS It features instructional material on all nine modes of discourse--description, narration, exemplification, process, comparison and contrast, definition, cause and effect, classification, and argumentation. MARKET: For the development of writing skills and the creation of effective writing.