College Writing Skills with Readings

This popular student-friendly rhetoric/reader/handbook is designed for writing courses that focus on the essay.College Writing Skills With Readings, 5th Edition, features Langan's clear writing style and wide range of writing assignments and activities that effectively reinforce the four essentials of good writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills. The Fifth Edition features expanded coverage of the writing process, new professional essays, new material on using the Internet, and more! The readings have also been updated to include more coverage of currently popular topics.

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both reading and writing, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State Collee. He also spent a year writing fiction.