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Study Questions

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Sections A-I:

I. Basics

   A. Starting   Ch. 1-6

   B. Organizing  7-13

   C. Revising/Editing  14-20

II. College Papers

   D. College Writing  21-23

   E. Response to Rdg.  24-30

   F. Argument  31-35

  G. Research  36-42

  H. Response to Lit.  43-48

   I.  Majors/Work  49-58

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OnlineGrammar.org

 

                                   

WELCOME TO WritingforCollege.org!

This is the 2012 edition of the free, online college-writing and professional-writing textbook formerly known as CollegeWriting.info.
  
Welcome!  This web book is an online, full-length college, AP, and basic writing textbook--one of the most complete and practical writing textbooks on the free Web, especially for students starting their journey through college writing.  You can access this site at WritingforCollege.org or at shortcut address W for C.org.   

How big is this web site?  There are hundreds of pages in 58 chapters.  In addition, the "Grammar Book" leads to millions of resources.  To start, click above or on the left.

Are you a student?  WritingforCollege (WforC.org) is easy to read and highly practical, with more information than most other free college writing textbooks on the Web.  This textbook is like a mansion with many rooms: WritingforCollege has dozens of chapters on academic, professional, literary, and creative writing, all containing a variety of helpful descriptions and examples.  Most chapters offer multiple focuses for both beginning and intermediate writers, and for classroom, personal, or professional use.  There are also several dozen sample student papers. 

In addition, navigation is simple,  with both visual and textual links to other pages and sites, to sample papers, and to related readings.  Why is this kind of book good?  See a 4 min., 45 sec. video from Kansas State University showing why having a practical and free online guide to real writing is so important to students: "A Vision of Students Today" at  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.

Are you an instructor?  WritingforCollege is a genre- and community-oriented textbook with an emphasis on learning-centered, writing-intensive instruction useful in most beginning and intermediate--and some advanced--undergraduate college courses in composition, writing across the curriculum, literature, speech, and writing in other disciplines.  A section for basic writers is included, too.  WritingforCollege also can help you and your students easily explore other online writing resources, with links to some of the Web's finest sites containing usage and mechanics, argumentative and other nonfiction essays, and full-text literary classics through its companion volume, OnlineGrammar.org.  

In addition, WritingforCollege provides instructor-oriented essays on--and links to--theory and pedagogy, listings of academic writing organizations and resources, and many other helpful professional links.  For more about the author and the development of this Web textbook, see "About the Authors."  For more about the theory behind this textbook, see "Teaching Strategic Experience." 

 

You may also find WritingforCollege through CollegeWriting.info and W forC.org.
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Warning: "CollegeWriting.com" is a commercial site with paid advertising.  You may want to avoid it. However, this site, under the names WritingforCollege.org, CollegeWriting.info, and WforC.org, is a free academic "edu" education site housed on the University of Minnesota web server.  It contains no paid advertising. 

Yet another site—CollegeWriting.org—is, like this site, a large, useful, free writing textbook by a different and very legitimate group.  Wikipedia's Rhetoric and Composition is yet another useful college composition textbook.  For a complete list of online college writing textbooks, see “Ch.15. Writing Textbooks & Tutors” in the Online Grammar Handbook.
    

                                

                

Updated 26 Sept. 2012

  

   

 

WritingforCollege.org also is at CollegeWriting.info and W for C.org
Previous editions' titles: Writing for School & Work, 1984-1990; CollegeWriting.info, 1998-2012.
6th Edition: 1 Aug. 2012.  Text, design, and photos copyright 2002-2012 by R. Jewell except as noted.
Permission is hereby granted for nonprofit educational copying and use without a written request.
Images courtesy of Barry's Clip Art, Clip Art Warehouse, The Clip Art Universe, Clipart Collection, MS Clip Art Gallery and Design Gallery Live, School Discovery, and Web Clip Art.
Click here to contact the author: Richard Jewell.  Questions and suggestions are welcome.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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