Steps to Writing Well

The informal, student-friendly tone of these rhetorically-organized rhetoric/reader/handbooks provides step-by-step instructions on writing a variety of 500-800-word essays.

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 more than a hundred workshops and papers on the teaching of writing, American literature, American Studies, and Women's Studies.