Writing Spaces Open Textbook Chapters

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Title Author Series Edition Keywords
Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis Carroll, Laura Bolin Vol. 1 advertisement-analysis, argumentation, audience, constraint, contextual, emotion, ethos, exigence, first-day, genre, guidelines, implication, Lloyd Bitzer, logos, media, pathos, persuasive, questioning, rhetorical-analysis, situational, social, tone, triangle
Collaborating Online: Digital Strategies for Group Work Atkins, Anthony Vol. 1 collaboration, digital, dysfunctional, google docs, group, member role, oral-presentation, productivity, task evaluation, teamwork, technology, wiki, wikipedia
Composing the Anthology: An Exercise in Patchwriting Leary, Christopher Vol. 1 anthology-writing, arrangement, assignment, cut-up, editing, found poetry, memoir-writing, patchwriting, peer-evaluation, plagiarism, poetry-writing, student-opinion, student-publishing, table of contents, teacher-story
Finding the Good Argument Why Bother With Logic? Jones, Rebecca Vol. 1 argumentation, Aristotle, burden-of-proof, classical-rhetoric, closure, complexity, deductive, duality, ethical, ethos, freedom of speech, implicit, inductive, jargon, logical, logos, nonadversarial, pathos, Plato, pragma-dialectical, premise, Quintilian, reasoning, relevance, standpoint, Stephen Toulmin, topoi, validity
Finding Your Way In: Invention as Inquiry Based Learning in First Year Writing Lessner, Steven and Collin Craig Vol. 1 Anzaldua, audience, bullets, composing, creativity, critical freewriting, exercise, focused freewriting, freewriting, FYC, graphic organizer, inquiry-based, invention, outlining, peer-evaluation, reader-strategy, rhetorical, sample
From Topic to Presentation: Making Choices to Develop Your Writing Hewett, Beth L. Vol. 1 author-story, brainstorming, composing, drafting, essay-writing, peer-evaluation, projector, revising, teacher-as-writer, topic, writer-choice
I Need You to Say ā€œIā€: Why First Person is Important in College Writing McKinney Maddalena, Kate Vol. 1 academic, discourse-analysis, exigency, expertise, first-person, guidelines, insider, integrity, objectivity, ownership, scholarly, science-writing, situational, sophistication, style, viewpoint
Inspired Writer vs. the Real Writer Allen, Sarah Vol. 1 academic, alienation, author-story, authoring, composing, inspiration, jargon, motivation, myth, Patricia Bizzell, quality, real-life, teacher-as-writer, writer-strategy
Introduction: Open Source Composition Texts Arrive for College Writers Cummings, Robert E. Vol. 1 introduction to the volume, open source, open textbook
Navigating Genres Dirk, Kerry Vol. 1 arrangement, form-content, genre, genre-knowledge, popular music, purpose, rules, situational, thesis-statement
Reflective Writing the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking? Giles, Sandra Vol. 1 author-story, case-study, composing, letter-to-the-reader, process, reflective, revising, sample, self-reflection, student-teacher-memo, writer-intention
Reinventing Invention: Discovery Investment in Writing Trim, Michelle D. and Megan Lynn Isaac Vol. 1 activity, audience, brainstorming, creativity, discovery, genre, group, guidelines, implied-reader, individual, interest, invention, needs-analysis, problem-solving, process, purpose, sample, topic
So You've Got a Writing Assignment. Now What? Hinton, Corrine E. Vol. 1 apprehension, argumentation, assignment, audience, directive verb, emotion, evidence, format, guidelines, interpretation, panic, procrastination, purpose, questioning, resources, sample, stylistic
Taking Flight: Connecting Inner Outer Realities during Invention Antlitz, Susan E. Vol. 1 apprehension, composing, compound topics, connection, content, creativity, digital, email, emotion, exercise, graphic organizer, growth, heuristic, ideas, invention, journal-writing, meditation, messaging, personal, play, PowerPoint, prayer, private-public, procrastination, random words, sample, social, writing-ritual
What is Academic Writing? Irvin, L. Lennie Vol. 1 academic, analysis, argumentation, assignment, audience, closed assignment, communication, complexity, controlled, critical, definition, first-person pronoun, five-paragraph, genius, genre, grammar, interpretation, myth, open assignment, purpose, researching, semi-open assignment, situational
Why Visit Your Campus Writing Center? Rafoth, Ben Vol. 1 audience, collaboration, conferencing, confidence, motivation, needs-analysis, one-on-one, student-opinion, tutoring, writing center
Wikipedia Is Good for You!? Purdy, James P. Vol. 1 accuracy, changeability, collaboration, dialogic, guidelines, interactive, internet, invention, resources, review-writing, revision, term-paper, wikipedia