Appendix: Additional Readings and Resources

Selections from The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.

The following is the 1920 edition of the famous writing text The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., which is in the public domain. This version is retrieved from Project Gutenberg under the Project Gutenberg License.

The Elements of Style has been perhaps the most influential style guide in modern English, while some of its advice is outdated, such as the spelling of tomorrow as to-morrow (updated in more recent copyrighted editions), much of it remains relevant and foundational, especially the points on composition. Indeed, Strunk’s points on writing style were so influential that they are considered by many to be grammatical rules.

Writing Spaces

Writing Spaces is an open-source textbook series written by writing teachers specifically for undergraduate writers (“About Writing Spaces”). The chapter-length texts listed at the following links provide a diversity of perspectives and insights on the writing process. Among many other topics, you’ll find essays on academic writing, digital and multimodal writing, pre-writing and idea generation, research, collaboration, and argumentation. Your instructor may assign some of these texts as readings in your course to engage you and your classmates in critical conversations. Here is the Writing Spaces library of essays organized by topic.

All listed texts are Creative Commons licensed, meaning you can download and access them for free.

When you click an essay’s title, you will be able to access the text online or download it as a pdf.