College Writing Skills book by John Langan

Highly regarded and used by countless students, this effective rhetoric/handbook is ideal for freshman writing courses that focus on the essay. COLLEGE WRITING SKILLS features the successful Langan approach--focusing on the four essentials of writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. At the end of the book students will find a handbook that offers a wide variety of exercises and editing tests that stress clear thinking and revision. The fifth edition incorporates professional essays that illustrate each of the nine rhetorical patterns and fully up-to-date coverage on writing a research paper.