This guide is divided into eight blocks of five lessons each, offering instruction to students for eight papers. The guide assumes students have no experience with critical writing, and therefore the very first lessons walk students through the proper form for argument. Subsequent lessons help students to write with clarity and directness. This guide is included with all of Smarr Publishers courses and does not need to be purchased separately. However, this guide can be used with any literature course, which lacks instruction in critical writing. As students complete their reading of a work, they write a paper on a rhetorical issue raised in the reading. With this paper, students apply the lessons to the paper, rewriting and revising their initial drafts. This guide helps students to understand the importance of the ongoing process of writing.

Lessons include: the thesis statement, the classical form for argument, nouns as subjects and objects, nominalizations, nouns as modifiers, subject-verb agreement, active and passive voice, pronoun agreement, pronouns and compound constructions, gerunds, participles, infinitives, double negatives, misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, sentence combining with adjectives, adverbs, prepositional and absolute phrases, subordinate clauses, and other topics.

The guide contains examples and exercises for students, and an answer key is included for the exercises.

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