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Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
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. Topics in this volume include the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration.
Charles Lowe is Assistant Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University where he teachers composition, professional writing, and Web design. Pavel Zemliansky is Associate Professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University.
Publication Information: Lowe, Charles, and Zemliansky, Pavel (Eds.). (2011). Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. Available at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/
Publication Date: January 31, 2011
Contact Information: Visit http://writingspaces.org/contact.
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
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
Series Editors: Charles Lowe, Grand Valley State University, and Pavel Zemliansky, James Madison University
This book is available in whole and in part in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). It is also available in print at Parlor Press.