title: Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings, Enhanced Edition
author:  Jean Wyrick 
description: "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."<br /><br />"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."
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  EUGENE, OREGON
  
  
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  To my dad,
  
  who loved me and lived before me the God I know today.
  
  
  
  
  
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  I am very grateful for the help and advice of many friends who made it
  possible for me to write this book.
  
  I am particularly thankful to my wife, Sally, for her love and encouragement,
  and to my children, Misha and Matthew, who were very patient with me while I
  spent many hours working in my study, and to my secretary, Lura Garrido, for
  typing and retyping the manuscript.
  
  My special thanks also to Linda Patton and Terry Tootle, who helped Lura with
  the typing; to Tom Hallas, Roger Forster, and Alv Magnus for the suggestions
  they made; and to Sharon Mutchler, who developed the study guide. Thanks to
  Christine Alexander and Ed Sherman for their research assistance. And I am
  very grateful to Dr. H.Wayne Light, who is not only a highly trained