Rich with encouragement and attention to students' trepidation about writing, "Odyssey" focuses on helping students build paragraph and essay writing skills while treating the writing process as a voyage of self-discovery and confidence building. The authors help students overcome their fear of writing and lack of self-confidence as they build paragraph- and essay- writing skills. The authors focus on writing paragraphs and essays and improving grammar. Writers concerned with improving their writing at the paragraph and essay level.