The Writer's Resource: Readings for Composition

by Susan X. Day

THE WRITER'S RESOURCE is a rhetorically organized reader that provides a multigenre collection of essays, poems, and short stories with extensive apparatus. The fourth edition includes a new introductory chapter on active reading and a new closing chapter on critique and review writing. As always, this edition features up-to-date pieces by women and ethnic writers. Chapter introductions have been expanded to include fuller coverage of the rhetorical modes by giving examples of how they are used in the chapters' selections as well as by asking students to examine how these strategies can be applied to their own writing. Also, pre-reading journal prompts have been provided for every selection.

551 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1983

About the author

Susan X Day is an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University of Science and Technology in Ames. She pursues two research programs, one concerning personality and the development of interests, and one concerning the use of distance technology in psychotherapy. Dr. Day taught English at Illinois State University for 20 years before beginning her Ph.D. in psychology at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her specialties in English studies are writing and pedagogy, and she has done research on the practices of dissertation writers and the identity development of creative writers. In 1999, Dr. Day won the national American Psychological Association-sponsored Outstanding Graduate Student Award for excellence in scholarship and professional development in her field. She is the author and co-author of more than a dozen college textbooks in rhetoric, grammar, and literature, and her research has appeared in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist and Psychological Science.