The book consists of four parts, with a total of twenty units and five appendices.

• Part I, Unit 1 through 3

Academic writing basics, with a focus on the nature of academic writing, misconceptions about writing, the writing process, and the characteristics of paragraphs

• Part II, Unit 4 through 6

Paragraph writing skills and essay introduction, with a focus on enumerative paragraphs, narrative paragraphs, and five – paragraph essays

• Part III, Unit 7 through 20

Editing / grammar skills, with a focus on sentence structures with punctuation, verbs, nouns, pronouns, word forms, and word orders

• Part IV, Appendix A through F

Information on the Non-Stop Non-Translation (NSNT) approach, weekly writing prompts, punctuation, capitalization, irregular verbs, and answer key. (The answer key is available to instructors.)