Squeeze the Sponge uses Rhoda Janzen's powerful, hilarious, and emotionally generous voice as a bestselling memoirist and award-winning professor to offer undergraduate students an inspirational writing guide. This indispensable textbook is replete with hands-on activities, seventy pages of grammar instruction, and memorable tips, examples, and analogies to help students refine their writing-in other words, "squeeze the sponge." In Squeeze the Sponge, Janzen achieves something new: a textbook so lively and humorous that students will actually want to read it. Rejecting the deficit model of instruction, Janzen meets students where they are to help them become better and more confident college writers through five unique textbook sections: "How to Write for College Assignments"; "How to Generate Good Stuff to Write About"; "How to Play the Grammar Game"; "Style Rescue"; and "An Ending with a Twist."