A freshman composition text (or "contextbook") that invites readers to take the initiative in their learning, this book is a revised edition of a 1980 work. It consists of the following chapters: (1) "Free Writing"; (2) "Loopy Learning"; (3) "Throwing Back the English"; (4) "Truthtelling"; (5) "Cutting Wasted Words"; (6) "The I-Search Paper"; (7) "A Topic Choosing You"; (8) "Locating Sources"; (9) "Tell It as Story"; (10) "Talking Animals"; (11) "Interviewing"; (12) "I and the Others"; (13) "Objectivity and Subjectivity"; (14) "Five I-Search Papers"; (15) "Bad Words"; (16) "Getting the Point"; (17) "Editing Day"; (18) "Filled with Books"; (19) "Issued Periodically"; (20) "A Profundity of Learning?"; (21) "Sam and Noah"; (22) "Historical Lexicography"; (23) "Spellynge, Spellyng, Spelling"; (24) "Can I Become a Writer?"; and (25) "The Larger Context." (MS)