Steps to Writing Well - Softcover

Wyrick, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439083959 ISBN 13: 9781439083956

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2010

Synopsis

Reliable and straightforward, this text has helped thousands of students learn to write well. Jean Wyrick's rhetorically organized STEPS TO WRITING WELL, Eleventh Edition, is known for its friendly tone and the clear way it presents the basics of essay writing in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. Through straightforward advice and thoughtful assignments, the text gives students the practice they need to approach writing well-constructed essays with confidence. With Wyrick's precise instruction and the book's professional samples by both well-known classic and contemporary writers, STEPS TO WRITING WELL, Eleventh Edition, sets students on a solid path to writing success. Everything students need to begin, organize, and revise writing--from choosing a topic to developing the essay to polishing prose--is right here! In the eleventh edition, Wyrick updates and refines the book's successful approach, adding useful new discussions, readings, exercises, essay assignments, and visual images for analysis.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Wyrick is Professor Emerita of English at Colorado State University, where she was Director of Composition for 11 years. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching writing, training writing teachers, and designing writing/writing-across-the-curriculum programs. Her other textbooks include THE RINEHART READER and DISCOVERING IDEAS. She has presented over a hundred workshops and papers on the teaching of writing, American literature, American Studies, and Women's Studies.

Review:

"I like the informal--yet professional style--of the text. I think students do as well. It is accessible to readers of varying abilities. Jean obviously has a sense of humor that comes across in her writing."

"One of the reasons I think my colleagues in the division continue to adopt this text is because regardless of their teaching approach, the book possesses sections and characteristics they can use in class or for the basis of assignments."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439083959
• ISBN 13: 9781439083956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656