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Academic Writing & Critical thinking | Collaboration | Cultural Competency | Digital & Multimodal | Genre & Discourse Community | Narrative & Personal | Reflection & Metacognition | Research | Rhetorical Analysis | Social Advocacy
Academic Writing & Critical Thinking
- Critical Thinking in College Writing: from the Personal to the Academic by Gita Dasbender
- Weaving Personal Experience into Academic Writing by Marjorie Stewart
- I Need You to Say “I”: Why First Person is Important in College Writing by Kate McKinney Maddalena
- What is Academic Writing? by Lennie Irvin
- “Finding Your Way In”: Invention as Inquiry Based Learning in First Year Writing by Steven Lessner and Collin Craig
- Annoying Ways People Use Sources by Kyle Stedman
- Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about Writing – and One Thing It Can’t by Ann N. Amiccuci
- What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing by Jillian Grauman
- What Are We Being Graded On? by Jeremy Levine
Collaboration
- Writing with Your Peers by Raquel Corona, Kami Day, and Michele Eodice
- Technologies of Trust: Creating Networks of Goodwill for Collaboration by Lance Cummings, Becka Jackson, and Moriah Yancey
- Find the Best Tools for the Job: Experimenting with Writing Workflows by Derek Van Ittersum and Tim Lockridge
- Collaborating Online: Digital Strategies for Group Work by Anthony T. Atkins
- A Student’s Guide to Collaborative Writing Technologies by Matt Barton and Karl Klint
Cultural Competency
- Beyond Language Difference in Writing: Investigating Complex and Equitable Language Practices by Cristina Sánchez-Martín
- Workin’ Languages: Who We Are Matters in Our Writing by Sarah P. Alvarez, Amy J. Wan, and Eunjeong Lee
- Writing toward Racial Literacy by Mara Lee Grayson
- Writing in Global Contexts: Composing Usable Texts for Audiences from Different Cultures by Kirk St. Amant
- The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility by Rachel Donegan
Digital & Multimodal Writing
- Collaborating Online: Digital Strategies for Group Work by Anthony T. Atkins
- 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
- An Introduction to and Strategies for Multimodal Composing by Melanie Gagich
- Understanding Visual Rhetoric by Jenae Cohn
- Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about Writing – and One Thing It Can’t by Ann N. Amiccuci
- Technologies of Trust: Creating Networks of Goodwill for Collaboration by Lance Cummings, Becka Jackson, and Moriah Yancey
- The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility by Rachel Donegan
- Understanding and Maintaining Your Privacy When Writing with Digital Technologies by Lindsey C. Kim
Genre & Discourse Community Analysis
- Understanding Discourse Communities by Dan Melzer
- Navigating Genres by Kerry Dirk
- Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about Writing – and One Thing It Can’t by Ann N. Amiccuci
- Creating, Using and Sharing Information in Research Communities by Cassie Hemstrom and Kathy Anders
- Make Your “Move”: Writing in Genres by Brad Jacobson, Madelyn Pawlowski, and Christine M. Tardy
- Read the Room! Navigating Social Contexts and Written Texts by Sarah Seeley, Kelly Xu, and Matthew Chen
Narrative & Personal Writing
- How to Read Like a Writer by Mike Bunn
- Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students by E. Shelley Reid
- So You’ve Got a Writing Assignment. Now What? by Corrine E. Hinton
- The Inspired Writer vs. the Real Writer by Sarah Allen
- Storytelling, Narration, and the “Who I am’” Story by Catherine Ramsdell
- Workin’ Languages: Who We Are Matters in Our Writing by Sarah P. Alvarez, Amy J. Wan, and Eunjeong Lee
Reflection & Metacognition
- Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking? by Sandra Giles
- I Need You to Say “I”: Why First Person is Important in College Writing by Kate McKinney Maddalena
- From Topic to Presentation: Making Choices to Develop Your Writing by Beth L. Hewett
- Composition as a Write of Passage by Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
- The Importance of Transfer in Your First Year Writing Course by Kara Taczak
Research
- 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
- Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting a Well-Informed Argument by Kate Warrington, Natasha Kovalyova, and Cindy King
- Effectively and Efficiently Reading the Credibility of Online Sources by Ellen Carillo and Alice Horning
- How to Analyze Data in a Primary Research Study by Melody Denny and Lindsay Clark
- At Work in the Archives: Place-Based Research and Writing by Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Jessica Rose
- Creating, Using and Sharing Information in Research Communities by Cassie Hemstrom and Kathy Anders
Rhetorical Analysis
- Critical Thinking in College Writing: from the Personal to the Academic by Gita Dasbender
- Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking) by Janet Boyd
- Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis by Laura Bolin Carroll
- Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic? by Rebecca Jones
- Understanding Visual Rhetoric by Jenae Cohn
- The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility by Rachel Donegan
Social Advocacy
- Public Writing for Social Change by Ashley J. Holmes
- Read the Room! Navigating Social Contexts and Written Texts by Sarah Seeley, Kelly Xu, and Matthew Chen
- Understanding Discourse Communities by Dan Melzer