"Survival " provides readers with a set of tools to help students (and prospective students) of first-year college composition get through the semester. This is not a grammar or punctuation book, but a collection of strategies on how to approach the college experience and what to expect when entering the often-dreaded English101. The author, a 20-year veteran of teaching freshman composition, takes a light-hearted look at the problems new students often encounter, and offers a few tips on how to avoid the common pitfalls.