Part of the marketing-leading Essentials series, The Bare Essentials Plus, Fourth Edition, is a perfect fit for today's multicultural classroom. This text covers all of the skills indispensable for effective writing and organization, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The "Plus" refers to additional material included in the text that focuses on the needs of second-language writers. This text provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to progress from sentence to paragraph development and onto essay writing in college and university in a friendly, accessible approach.