Evergreen With Readings : A Guide to Writing

Susan Fawcett is a former professor of English and director of the writing lab at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She is the author of two leading writing textbooks, Grassroots: The Writer's Workbook and Evergreen: A Guide to Writing, as well as Business English: Skills for Success. In 2008, Grassroots won the McGuffey Award for sustained excellence, a juried prize given by the Text and Academic Authors Association for Best Language and Literature Text in the U.S. In 2000, Fawcett's Evergreen was also honored with the McGuffey. Ms. Fawcett's poetry and nonfiction articles on education, health, and the environment have appeared in such magazines as The Nation, Ms. Magazine, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Ploughshares. Her interests include brain science and its implications for learning, critical thinking and viewing in composition courses, and the use of writing and arts instruction to rehabilitate imprisoned youth. Ms. Fawcett has led faculty workshops in the U.S. and South Africa and has worked to promote textbook authorship by minority faculty. She loves to kayak, travel, and sing.