Unit I the challenge of change – Unit II the challenge of the present – Unit III the challenge of self – Unit IV the challenge of society – Unit V the challenge of the creative impulse.

"Unit I leads the student through the complexities of the principles of effective paragraph writing. Unit II builds upon the first unit to lead the student through the difficulties of developing the longer composition. Unit III escorts the student through the intricacies and refinement of various sentence structures on through Unit IV, the synthesis of an intellectual inquiry in a step-by-step development of a research paper. Unit V inspires the student to explore the manifestations of the human creative impulse through the wonder of literature."
- Preface