Textbooks
Open-Access Textbooks
Welcome to the Writing@CSU Open-Access Textbooks pages. The following textbooks are available on this site or on other Web sites for use by writing students and teachers. We intend, over the next few years, to add to this collection of resources both by providing access to previously published textbooks and by creating a collection of new textbooks. For more information about this project, please contact Mike Palmquist at Mike.Palmquist@ColoState.edu
The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines
by Charles Bazerman
The Informed Writer, offered here in its fifth edition, addresses a wide range of writing activites and genres, from summarizing and responding to sources to writing the research paper and writing about literature. The book has been adapted by Mark Haas for presentation on this site. View this textbook ....
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1
Edited by Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
The books in this series, published jointly by the WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, present peer-reviewed collections of essays—all composed by teachers for students—with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. The Writing Spaces mission is to build a library of quality open access texts for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks. Each series collection will contain engaging essays from different writing teachers in the field and will explore important topics about writing in a manner and style accessible both to teachers and students. View Volume 1 ....>
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2
Edited by Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
The second volume in the Writing Spaces series addresses topics including the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration. View Volume 2 ....
Writing Commons ... The Home For Writers
By Joe Moxley
Writing Commons offers the resources and community students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing. The author and editorial board members of this project believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers—part of the cultural commons. Hence, free access is being provided to an award-winning, college textbook that was published by a major publisher and awarded the Distinguished Book Award by Computers and Composition: an International Journal. View this textbook ....
The Process of Research Writing
By Steve Krause
The Process of Research Writing is a web-based research writing textbook written for teachers and students in research oriented composition and rhetoric classes. View this textbook ....
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
By Chuck Guilford
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is a distillation and collage of the author's numerous writings, talks, and activities that he has developed over the years and tried out on students, colleagues, and mentors with varying degrees of success. This comprehensive site has long been a source of advice to aspiring writers. View this textbook ....