Designed to support students learning to navigate college and first-year composition at the same time, A Student's Companion for The Bedford Guide for College Writers provides:•College success materials that help students build confidence, manage time effectively, and write ethically and responsiblyActivities designed to help students develop, draft, and revise thoughtful, college-level writing projects for each of the writing goals in Part Two of The Bedford Guide for College WritersSentence guides for academic writing that give students a jumping-off point as they learn to present and respond to the ideas of othersExtra practice with developing topic sentences, avoiding wordiness, and correcting other common problems, such as comma splices and fragments Introduction