The Macmillan College Handbook has been designed to serve not only as an accessible and comprehensive reference guide but also as an effective teaching text. It may be used as a rhetoric or guide to writing essays, paragraphs, and sentences. The thorough discussion of writing, revising, and editing the whole essay in the early chapters and the discussion of the persuasive and documented essay in the later chapters keep the focus throughout on the writers chief concern the essay itself. Writing, style, essay