15.1 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.
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.
Additional Resources
- Here is the Writing Spaces library of essays organized by topic.
Attributions
A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing by Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This chapter has additions, edits, and organization by James Charles Devlin.
