The Oxford book of American essays by Brander Matthews (editor)Included in this volume are essays by Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and more.
Publication Date: 1914
Writing spaces: Reading on writing vol. I by Charles Lowe; Pavel ZemlianskyThis volume includes essays in which authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.
Writing for success by Tara HorkoffWriting for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
Publication Date: 2015
Writing in college: From competence to excellence by Amy GuptillWriting in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text.
ISBN: 9781942341215
Publication Date: 2016-01-15
Other composition resources:
The Writing Center at UNC Chapel HillThis page includes a series of handouts on writing, citation style, specific writing contexts, and writing in specific fields.
Excelsior Online Writing LabThis resource offers a wide variety of interactive multimedia activities, quizzes, videos, interactive PDFs, and games.
Writing CommonsA free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research.
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