Amazon.com description: Product Description: This revised version of Writing: Plain and Simple offers an entire segment on the Top 10 mistakes writers make. The book serves as a guide to writing the college essay. It also takes the basic ideas of writing and simplifies them into a series of steps that help students learn and internalize the writing process. Features include step-by-step instruction from the pre-writing through the revision processes, additional topics of persuasive writing, achieving coherence and generating ideas. There also are appendices with a revision checklist and comma rules.