These signs of students approaching campus made me think about the amount of writing they are about to engage in—writing is, after all, an important way to learn and a key way to demonstrate what one has learned.  Students will write impromptu responses for a given class, more developed essays on assigned topics and research papers resulting from long-term projects.  This is especially true of high-school seniors and first-year college students.  I write to alert you of this basic fact and to present the glad tidings of an easy way for you to become well prepared for these projects, starting right now, long before they are even assigned.