A short and friendly introduction to the basics of how to think about, collect, and interpret data in order to answer questions about the world we live in and to advance our understanding of a range of subjects studied at university, to be used in support of a one-semester statistics class.

This text is meant as a resource for composition instructors. It's not meant to provide every possible topic for every class. Instead, it's meant as a basic writing text to be supplemented with instructors' preferred articles and course materials.