This series introduces basic principles and strategies for communicating in writing to a variety of audiences and improving general composition skills. Students will meet a wide array of professionals whose work involves writing -- not only authors, journalists and teachers, but also musicians, judges, nurses, engineers, scientists and even athletes. They discuss how they write with their specific audiences in mind.

1. School Writing / Real World

2. Finding Something to Say

3. Description

4. Reading as a Writer

5. Narrative Writing

6. Voice

7. Process Analysis

8. Revision

9. Writing Under Pressure

10. Freewriting and Generating

11. Computers in Composition

12. Organizing Devices

13. Comparison and Contrast

14. Peer Feedback

15. Definition

16. Collaborative Writing

17. Persuasion

18. Reading as a Thinker

19. Argument

20. Quotes and Citations

21. Research

22. Editing: Sentences

23. Critical Thinking

24. Editing: Word Usage

25. Writing Across the Disciplines

26. Editing: Mechanics