The coronae of bright late-type stars observed with EPIC and RGS

X-ray bright late-type stars have been selected as targets of XMM-Newton observations, with the aim to study in detail the plasma thermal distributions and chemical abundances of their coronae, and the characteristics of their X-ray emission variability. Both high-resolution spectra with RGS and high signal-to-noise medium-resolution EPIC spectra have been employed to this aim. I present some representative cases of such studies.