Through four successful editions, Writing: A College Handbook's positive approach has not only empowered students to write effectively, it has challenged students to consider why good writing matters. The Fifth Edition builds on this emphasis, exemplifying in clear, engaging prose the skills that students need to communicate in a wide variety of rhetorical contexts. A reliable and easy-to-use reference tool and an up-to-date rhetoric and research guide, Writing: A College Handbook invites students to discover the power of effective writing.

Highlights of the Fifth Edition

• Writing Outside the Academic Community

• Writing and Technology

• Making Connections between Readers and Writers

• Document Design

• Research and Documentation

• Attention to Style

Author Biography: James A. W. Heffernan, Professor of English and Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, has published extensively on English Romantic poetry and on the relation between literature and visual art. His books include Wordsworth's Theory of Poetry: The Transforming Imagination (1969), The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Constable, and Turner (1985), Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiography, and Art (1992), and Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis (1993). John E. Lincoln received his M.A. from Columbia University. He taught English at Hanover High School and at a number of other high schools and preparatory schools, at Wesleyan University, and at Dartmouth College, where he pioneered a special writing program. The materials in that program formed the basis for the original version of Writing: A College Handbook, written with Professor Heffernan. Janet Atwill is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches courses in writing, critical theory, and rhetorical history and theory. She is currently working with faculty across the university in developing service learning and cultural studies programs. Her research focuses on rhetoric as an art of intervention and invention. Professor Atwill is the author of Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition (1998).