Students have much to say about their goals, families, jobs, college, and the world around them. GET WRITING: PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS develops students' confidence and skills as writers by engaging them in their own writing, through tapping into their personal interests with inventive assignments, prompts, and activities that help them focus their critical thinking skills. Like its successful predecessor, GET WRITING: SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS, this paragraph-to-essay text keeps students continually writing with numerous inventive assignments, prompts, and activities that give them the opportunity to express themselves, and build confidence in their ability to create thesis statements, draft and develop paragraphs, and write and revise their own essays.