Words on Paper will help you become a better reader, writer, and researcher. The authors combine highly engaging essays from essayists of varied and diverse backgrounds with solid writing instruction and continuing reinforcement of the reading-writing connection to strengthen writing. The essays, selected to reflect the mosaic of American culture and excite and encourage readers into sharing their experience and opinions in writing, were written about topics important to today's students: self-examination, family, people and places, society, the environment, popular culture, and more. Book jacket.