Beginning Level Written by Joy Reid, the foremost authority on teaching composition to ESL students, this series takes students from beginning-level instruction on basic sentence structure through the development and production of advanced academic papers. Writing examples, opportunities to learn about and produce academic prose, and sequenced assignments that increase in complexity help students build their ability to fulfil academic assignments as high as the university and graduate school levels. Examples of good (and poor) student compositions, written by native and non-native speakers of English, enrich all three books. The Reid hallmark of collaboration, in the form of pair and group work, is an important feature of the books. Basic Writing is for "false beginners" and/or students whose writing skills are less advanced than their other language skills. Other books in the series: The Process of Paragraph Writing, (intermediate level), and The Process of Composition, (advanced level).