Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings

Combining coverage of the writing process with professional readings, Wyrick/Field/Wick’s ‘Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings’ has helped students learn to write academic essays. It presents rhetorical strategies for composing essays in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. With over 70 student and professional readings and hands-on activities, it gives writers the models and practice they need to write essays with confidence. The 12th edition features visual learning aids, student writing samples on timely topics, assignments using sources and rhetorical strategies and discussions of multimodal texts and online databases. It also reflects guidelines from latest 9th edition ‘Manual of the Modern Language Association’ and 7th edition ’2020 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.’ Now available: MindTap digital learning solution.

Author Biography

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 100 workshops and papers on the teaching of writing, American literature, American studies, and women’s studies. Chris Field is an Associate Professor of English in the Languages, Literature, and Philosophy department at Tennessee State University, where he has served as the First-Year Composition Coordinator since 2016. In his more than 20 years of teaching at the collegiate level, he has taught a variety of composition and literature courses, and he has mentored countless students and colleagues. His previous works include Beyond the Frontier, Volume IV: Innovations in First-Year Composition (2025), Tell Me a Story: Using Narratives to Break Down Barriers in Composition Courses (2017), and “I’m Just a Comic Book Boy”: Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk (2019). Audrey Wick is Professor of English at Blinn College in Texas. She has teaching experience in a wide range of modalities but currently splits her time with face-to-face and online instruction. She was honored with an annual Teaching Excellence Award at her institution. In addition to academia, she enjoys fiction writing with a variety of contemporary novels to her name.