Welcome to the Web site for Work in Progress: A Guide to Academic Writing and Revising, Sixth Edition, by Lisa Ede.

Work in Progress remains a brief, practical rhetoric that teaches writing as a series of choices students have to make--giving them easy-to-use guidelines they can apply to a variety of writing situations in college and beyond.

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You can also visit the Web site for Work in Progress, Fifth Edition.

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