One of the most comprehensive and well-respected books of its kind, this best-selling rhetoric/reader/handbook is designed for developmental writing courses that focus on paragraph writing skills in preparation for essay writing. English Skills with Readings, Sixth edition, features John Langan's crystal-clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and writing assignments that effectively reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.

The Sixth edition includes a more visual design; a revised, updated, and streamlined research chapter; an expanded treatment of purpose in writing; an introduction to tone; and fresh new examples, writing activities, editing tests, and readings.