Monographs

Writing Boxes: The Reading/Writing Connection in Libraries (CC BY-NC)

A guidebook and source of programming inspiration for all librarians working with early to young adult readers. Librarians will find thematic, easy to implement, hour-long writing workshops that require only paper, markers, and excited young writers.

Supplemental Materials

APA Style Citation Tutorial, 7th edition (CC BY-NC-SA)

This tutorial covers why it is important to use citations, elements of common source types, and how to create reference and in-text citations based on the 7th edition APA guidelines. This tutorial can also be used a reference resource.

Textbooks

Academic Integrity (CC BY-NC-SA)

An interactive approach to conveying the values of academic integrity, clarifying the meaning of plagiarism, and introducing the basics of citations, quoting and paraphrasing.

Academic Writing Basics (CC BY-NC-SA)

Designed specifically for Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, this Pressbook offers interactive activities and strategies for developing academic writing skills. Learners have the opportunity to review key parts of the writing process from interpreting their assignment instructions, organizing their ideas, drafting their writing, and revising their work.

Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy (CC BY-SA)

This book provides an in-depth look at beginner grammar terms and concepts, providing clear examples with limited technical jargon. It includes practices exercises, a full glossary and index, and easy-to-read language.

English 101 E-Text Writing for the Rhetorical Situation [Word] (CC BY)

This e-text focuses on writing for the rhetorical situation. The e-text will not give you a formula for writing, but it will teach you tools that you can use in your writing. These tools will help you decipher the rhetorical situation and how to address it accordingly.

A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing (CC BY-NC-SA)

This book combines the Introduction to Writing in College by Melanie Gagich and ENG 102: Reading, Writing and Research by Emilie Zickel. This book also contains complete and remixed chapters from other authors, links to several essays from the open source textbook series Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, and several links to articles from the open source website Writing Commons. Additionally, parts of this book also come out of a remixed version of Robin Jeffrey’s, About Writing, which have been rearranged, amended, edited, and enhanced with digital reading experience by including videos and visual reading features.

Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research (CC BY-NC-SA)

This book is appropriate for a first-year composition course focusing on academic writing, reading, researching, and speaking. Major concepts in argument theory are covered.

Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing (CC BY-SA)

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven.

Technical and Report Writing (CC BY)

This textbook provides an introduction to technical and report writing for first-year students. It also covers ethical and legal obligations, social and collaborative communication, types of technical documents, and research.

Technical Writing @SLCC (CC BY-NC)

This textbook is for use in the English 2100 Technical Writing courses at Salt Lake Community College. It contains  reading materials that the Technical Writing Committee of the English department have deemed important for students of ENGL 2100 to learn.

Writing for Success – 1st Canadian H5P Edition (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Writing 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. It includes over 150 interactive H5P activities.

Videos

Videos on Composition (CC BY)

By Lance Eaton from Massachusetts’ based North Shore Community College.

Writability Podcast (CC BY-NC)

An openly licensed series of conversations with our faculty and staff: podcast episode topics range from tips for successful online students to the 5-paragraph essay to remote Library services. Most episodes are English and/or writing-focused but include a lot of cross-discipline conversations as well. The podcast with transcripts is housed in a library-hosted LibGuide; they’re also accessible from the Internet Archive and podcast apps.

Websites

The Nature of Writing (CC BY-NC-ND)

The Nature of Writing provides instructional videos, prose explanations, exercises, and sample assignments on topics like parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, mechanics, essay writing, citation, and more.

Roughwriter’s Guide: A Handbook for Writing Well (CC BY-NC-SA)

This guide provides students with help navigating academic writing, including all aspects of the writing process, MLA and APA formatting, and grammatical and mechanical issues.