The Access Handbook is uniquely designed to help both adult and young adult students with widely differing preparation to become confident and effective writers.

Suitable as both a classroom teaching tool and a reference manual, this mid-sized spiralbound handbook is especially helpful for underprepared and underconfident students, less experienced writers, and ESL students of various abilities and diverse backgrounds.

The Access Handbook offers positive instruction in key grammatical concepts supported by dozens of exercises and hands-on guidelines for dealing with common problems faced by less experienced writers. This handbook also validates student writing by including more real examples of student writing than any handbook available. ESL instruction comes from an insider's perspective, from one bilingual author and another with TESOL certification. This exceptionally strong ESL strand focuses on learning English as a second language and as a second culture, and on becoming acculturated to new ways of thinking and writing.

For students with diverse backgrounds — with varying exposure to standard English, academic discourse, and mainstream middle-class culture —The Access Handbook provides unique instruction, support, and motivation.