Includes themes that range from conversational topics such as talking to a landlord or professor in the lower-level text, to academic themes like unusual science and alternative medicine in the higher-level texts.[...]

Includes an audio CD for "Talk it Through".

Combines comprehensive development and practice in the rhetorical modes while integrating instruction in reading, grammar, critical thinking, and vocabulary development. This title focuses students on narrating, describing, analyzing, comparing and contrasting, classifying, and evaluating at the par[...]