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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.
If you Google it, search for "writingforcollege.org."
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is one of 96
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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.
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