Writing Spaces Volume 2

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students. 

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You can also select a link below or visit our Essay Sequences feature to learn how you can use Writing Spaces in your course design work. Because of the Creative Commons licensing, you can upload these texts to your personal website, share them with colleagues and students, or put them on your institutional learning management system class website.

Purchase a print version through our partner, Parlor Press.

Topics in Volume 2 of the series include the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration.

Table of Contents

• Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students by E. Shelley Reid
• Composition as a Write of Passage by Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
• Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic by Gita DasBender
• Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment by Catherine Savini
• How to Read Like a Writer by Mike Bunn
• Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking) by Janet Boyd
• The Complexity of Simplicity: Invention Potentials for Writing Students by Colin Charlton
• Writing “Eyeball To Eyeball”: Building A Successful Collaboration by Rebecca Ingalls
• On the Other Hand: The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses by Steven D. Krause
• Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews by Dana Lynn Driscoll
• Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context by Seth Kahn
• Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: A Guide to Using Sources by Cynthia R. Haller
• Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources by Karen Rosenberg
• Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills by Randall McClure
• Annoying Ways People Use Sources by Kyle D. Stedman
• Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn’t (Always) Right by Janice R. Walker
• Storytelling, Narration, and the “Who I Am” Story by Catherine Ramsdell
• The Sixth Paragraph: A Re-Vision of the Essay by Paul Lynch
• Why Blog? Searching for Writing on the Web by Alex Reid
• A Student’s Guide to Collaborative Writing Technologies by Matt Barton and Karl Klint
• Beyond Black on White: Document Design and Formatting in the Writing Classroom by Michael J. Klein and Kristi L. Shackelford

Note: You can also download copies of this chapter and the full volume from our partners:

• Parlor Press
• The WAC Clearinghouse

Writing Spaces is published in partnership with Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse.