Dedicated to meeting the academic needs of low-intermediate-level students, this book prepares students to take on the demands of college-level writing by teaching them the language, content, and rhetoric needed for success in college courses. These texts build student confidence by presenting step-by-step, easy-to-learn processes for effective academic writing.

As part of the 20-book Houghton Mifflin English for Academic Success series, College Writing 1 helps students learn to think and write critically, select and evaluate primary and secondary sources, and develop proofreading and editing skills. A step-by-step writing process helps demystify the concept of "academic writing" and builds student confidence. With assignments from a variety of disciplines with high enrollment patterns at U.S. colleges, this text uses selections from authentic Houghton Mifflin college and McDougal Littell high schools texts. These selections are complimented by practical exercises and activities that enhance the teaching-learning process.

• Academic content excerpted from Houghton Mifflin college and McDougal Littell high school textbooks familiarizes students with academic subjects across the curriculum and teaches them the writing skills necessary to succeed in those disciplines.
• The Houghton Mifflin English for Academic Success competencies, which are based on competencies developed by ESL instructors and administrators in Florida, California, and Connecticut, provide an underlying structure for EAP courses by ensuring a clear articulation of objectives throughout the series.
• All materials classroom were tested and approved by a board of adjunct instructors to ensure ease-of-use for both full- and part-time instructors. In addition, each book in the series underwent extensive review by ESL experts across the country.
• Master Student Tips are excerpted from the market-leading first-year-orientation book, Becoming a Master Student.
• A wide variety of easy-to-implement assessment tools, designed for both instructor use and self-assessment by students, include student self-assessment at the end of each chapter, student self-assessment tests on the student web site, and downloadable tests and quizzes for instructors on the password-protected Houghton Mifflin instructor web site.
• Power Grammar is taught by highlighting selected language patterns that occur frequently in the lecture. Exercises give students practice in understanding and using the grammar.
• Graphic Organizers help student to write and think critically.
• SMARTHINKING online tutoring offers students a range of tutorial services exclusively for students using Houghton Mifflin texts. Using state-of-the-art whiteboard technology and feedback tools, students interact and communicate with "e-structors." These specially trained tutors guide students through the learning and problem solving process without providing answers or rewriting a student's work.

1. Who Are You?

Academic Writing Focus: Effective sentences
Writing Assignment 1: Describe yourself
Writing Assignment 2: Describe your classmate
Writing Assignment 3: Compare high school and college
Writing Assignment 4: Describe your experience with tests
Writing Assignment 5: Explain something about college
Writing Assignment 6: Tell your instructor about yourself

2. Learning Styles

Academic Writing Focus: Three-step process for effective paragraphs
Writing Assignment 1: Describe your learning style
Writing Assignment 2: Explore learning strategies

3. Who will you be? Setting Goals and Making Decisions

Academic Writing Focus: Improving paragraphs through details, strong sentences
Writing Assignment 1: Set a specific goal and tell how you will reach it
Writing Assignment 2: Describe the real you
Writing Assignment 3: Make a decision using matrices

4. Balancing Responsibilities

Academic Writing Focus: Controlling tone, persuasive writing
Writing Assignment 1: Explain how you manage time
Writing Assignment 2: Describe a worry
Writing Assignment 3: Give advice to a student facing a dilemma
Writing Assignment 4: Explore pros and cons of credit cards
Writing Assignment 5: Conduct a case study analysis with a group

5. Technology and You

Academic Writing Focus: Appropriate language choices
Writing Assignment 1: Explore technology in college
Writing Assignment 2: Describe your most useful technology
Writing Assignment 3: Discuss rules for cell phone use
Writing Assignment 4: Send an e-mail message to your instructor