This book bridges the gap between writing paragraphs and writing essays. The second edition of the Student's Book updates the readings written by a wide range of culturally diverse international authors and adds news supplemental reading lists to most chapters. To move students more quickly into essay writing, the second edition reduces the number of paragraph writing assignments. The book focuses on a single theme per chapter and integrates the reading grammar, and editing activities. It includes assignment-specific peer-response sheets, guides students through peer-response activities, and addresses grammar points in the editing checklist.