This textbook offers more than a few 2- to 3-page summaries that ostensibly help the reader master various and sundry forms of writing. For example, there's a section on cover letters that gives the reader a fairly decent road map. However, I can't see myself ever using this book, since so much of the material is common sense. Sure, some of the specifics are handy, but this book's target audience ought already to know how to produce the forms of writing covered therein.