The Write Stuff: Paragraphs includes the following features: critical thinking skills defined and applied with critical thinking pointers, prompts, and exercises throughout the text critical reading and analysis techniques for reading pre-college and college-level assignments including visual aids critical thinking boxes that either briefly define the critical thinking tools relevant to specific sections of the chapter and explain in concrete terms how students can apply them, or demonstrate practical applications of the tools critical thinking icons that keep terminology and tools discussed in Chapter1 fresh in students' minds, integrating them into the ongoing instruction, and showing them to have practical use in all aspects of writing. thorough coverage of the basics for writing paragraphs introductory coverage of the basics for writing essays separate chapters on each of the modes, including argument professional paragraphs, with writing prompts, for analysis annotated student paragraphs that provide achievable models for student writers two chapters that cover how to paraphrase, summarize, and avoid plagiarism, as well has how to research, evaluate, and cite sources, using MLA documentation style a chapter of reading selections with critical thinking and writing prompts for skill application a section on sentence construction and common sentence construction errors with ample practice exercises a handbook which provides information and helpful tips on correct use of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and style, plus plentiful sentence and paragraph length exercises.