Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a book series containing peer-reviewed collections of essays—all composed by teachers for students—with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. Writing Spaces aims to build a library of quality open access textbooks for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks.
Welcome to the Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook - designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as a practical guide for students struggling to bring their writing up to the level expected of them by their professors and instructors.
A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences - A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.
English 1010: Open Essays - This is a compilation of open essays to supplement an argument and rhetoric class.
The Writing Center, UNC Chapel Hill - Guidelines for writing papers as well as outlines for assignments.
Academic Writing I - An ebook focused on composition. Composition I focuses on principles of writing, critical reading and essay composition using rhetorical styles common in college-level writing (narrative, example/illustration, compare/contrast, cause-and-effect, argument).
Better Writing From the Beginning - An ebook that covers processes and fundamentals of writing expository essays, including structure, organization and development, diction and style, revision and editing, mechanics and standard usage required for college-level writing.
Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future - An ebook: In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is "more than" its interconnected elements. To explain how and why antiracist work in the writing classroom is vital to literacy learning, Inoue incorporates ideas about the white racial habitus that informs dominant discourses in the academy and other contexts. Inoue helps teachers understand the unintended racism that often occurs when teachers do not have explicit antiracist agendas in their assessments. Drawing on his own teaching and classroom inquiry, Inoue offers a heuristic for developing and critiquing writing assessment ecologies that explores seven elements of any writing assessment ecology: power, parts, purposes, people, processes, products, and places.
Writing Process Overview - A page on the beginnings of the college writing process. Written by Susan Oaks.
Simple vs. Sophisticated Writing - A page analyzing different writing styles. Written by Susan Oaks.
Basic Questions for Rhetorical Analysis - A page outlining a rhetorical analysis. Written by Susan Oaks.
Modes of Persuasion: Ethos, Pathos and Logos - An Excelsior Online Writing Lab page written by Excelsior University
Narrative Writing - A page by Jenn Kipka on how to achieve narrative writing.
Instructional Videos
The Writer's Guide - Videos from Soomo Publishing on the writing process.
How to Use Paragraphs - Youtuber, Waistcoat Watson (an English teacher), explains the use of paragraphs in writing styles.
