- A brief, process-oriented rhetoric. Easily adaptable to many teaching styles and situations, Work in Progress provides students with techniques for working individually and collaboratively to navigate each stage of the writing process -- techniques that are soundly based on current composition theory.- A focus on understanding rhetorical situations. Work in Progress emphasizes making appropriate choices for different writing situations -- rhetorical sensitivity -- and provides numerous practical guidelines and models that will help students handle all kinds of academic writing.- Two new chapters on academic writing. Chapter Four covers the key topics of searching for and evaluating sources; summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting; and documenting sources. It also includes a sample student research paper that demonstrates the integration of sources, citation formats, and visual elements. Chapter 15 gives a concrete example of the development of one student's essay from first draft to final draft to help other students learn how to strengthen the arguments in their own writing.