An advanced writing course that does not repeat freshman English materials and techniques can encourage a variety of students to become enthusiastic about writing. One such course focuses on three writing modes: the poetic, the informative, and the persuasive. For the poetic mode, students write informal essays; for the informative mode, they write reviews; and for the persuasive mode, they write articles. These three types of nonfiction are prose forms that students will use in their adult lives, when they read and write for both pleasure and information. The course content relies heavily on the ideas of James Britton and James Kinneavy, who underscore the need for presenting discourse theory that describes communication as it is actually practiced, developing the relationship between the writer, the audience, their world, and the message. (RL)