Writing in Action is a basic collage rhetoric text that incorporates invention and revision activities in a collaborative include small-group workshop and prediting sessions with students using directive editing worksheets. The text is designed to help students to understand and master the stages of the writing cycle, including invention, composing, arranging, reviewing, editing, rewriting and proofreading. In each chapter, students explore a limited number of rhetorical principles and composing skills by investigating familiar discourse forms. By discovering the principles in familiar context, the student gains an understanding of the way in which rhetorical conventions make sense. Skills involved in mastering voice, organization, style, and punctuation are developed cumulatively so that students build confidence and control as they proceed through the text. Chapter 1.The writing cycle; Chapter 2. The Journal; Chapter 3. Argument and Description; Chapter 4. Arrangement; chapter 5. Narratives; Chapter 6. Writing to Report; Chapter 7. Writing about work.