Dear Student, Educator, or Aspiring Writer: Welcome to the Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook. This wikitext is designed as a full textbook replacement in first-year college composition programs. Feel free to use it in your classrooms and edit it as you see fit. This book is written as a practical guide for students struggling to improve their writing to meet the standards expected of them by their professors, instructors, employers and co-workers. We have avoided complicated "textbook language" and jargon in favor of plain, easily understood language. Instead of complex theories of composition or linguistics, we have simply passed on what has worked well for us in our own experiences as college writers and instructors.