This guide aims to alleviate writing anxiety by offering straightforward advice and techniques. It emphasizes building confidence and developing a positive writing mindset.
Author: Amy Liao
This handbook offers practical guidance on writing, focusing on clarity, coherence, and style. It provides strategies for effective composition.
This textbook covers writing as a process, modes of discourse, and research writing. It includes numerous sample essays written by students, providing practical examples of academic writing. The text emphasizes the development of writing skills through practice and reflection
An interactive composition textbook that emphasizes a growth mindset and active learning through multimodal resources and tools like annotation software. Its structured chapters guide students from foundational strategies for reading and writing to mastering rhetoric and inquiry-based composition skills.
Oregon Writes Open Writing Text (Kepka) – LibreTexts (CC BY) This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Uses accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field.
This textbook focuses on writing instruction with a regional perspective, incorporating themes and examples pertinent to the Pacific region. It aims to engage students by connecting writing skills to local contexts and issues, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of composition within their own communities. The material includes diverse writing exercises and readings that reflect …
This textbook is a derivative of seven creative commons texts—Successful Writing, Writer’s Handbook, A Guide to Perspective Analysis, Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, English for Business Success, and Visual Rhetoric. Jennifer Schaller and Tammy Wolf reduced the original text content; additionally, they created original introductions and added original chapters
All contributing works are copyrighted and CC-licensed by their respective authors. Informed Arguments is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.This textbook focuses on developing students’ abilities in reading, writing, researching, and speaking within the context of freshman composition. It emphasizes critical thinking and civil public discourse, guiding students through the process of …
Provides a practical approach to teaching composition, covering essay writing, grammar, and rhetorical skills with interdisciplinary lessons and multimedia resources. It emphasizes relevance and adaptability and caters to diverse learning styles.
Frameworks for Academic Writing (Poulter, 2013) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)Designed for a wide range of writing abilities, from beginning to expert academic writers. ESL, ADL, LD, ADHD, and other writers who are simply unfamiliar with academic writing patterns benefit from sentence-by-sentence templates, prompts, tutorials, and examples. More confident writers may simply use the checklists provided.