Contains 2003 MLA updates.

Includes index.

1.Rhetoric, college student's guide to writing: Reading, thinking, and writing --2.Writing process --3.College essay --4.Reader, strategies and models: Narrative and descriptive writing -- 5.Analytical writing --6.Persuasive writing -- 7.Report writing --8.Special forms of writing --9.Research guide: Research and writing --10.Documentation and format style --11.Handbook: Punctuation, mechanics, usage, and grammar; Sentence issues -- 12.Addressing multilingual/ESL issues.

The College Writer is a rhetoric, reader, research guide, and handbook that offers streamlined, nuts-and-bolts writing instruction. It is so thorough, helpful, and graphically designed that students in first-year composition courses at both community colleges and four-year schools will claim it as their own.