Writing to Learn is a process and product-based writing series that spans four levels - beginning, low-intermediate, high-intermediate, and advanced. The goal of the series is is to take students from writing good sentences to writing clear and effective essays. Each book makes use of students' skills and experiences to generate writing topics.

Each of the Writing to Learn texts is designed to help students improve their writing for academic and vocational success. Throughout the series an emphasis is placed on vocabulary acquisition, grammar practice, and writing, editing, rewriting, and journaling skills.

Writing to Learn, The Sentence is aimed at beginning to high-beginning students and is designed to improve student ability in writing accurate and descriptive English sentences.