CONFIDENCE IN WRITING is a paragraph-to-essay developmental writing text that includes both student and professional readings to illustrate basic writing concepts and serve as models for analysis. Student examples show writing through various drafts, and illustrates invention, drafting, and revision concepts. Adopting a writing process approach, the text includes a handbook section that covers grammar and mechanics on the sentence level along with a short section on spelling improvement. The fourth edition of this fundamental textbook provides students with a process for planning, organizing, drafting, and revising paragraphs and essays.