Digital Books on the WAC Clearinghouse

Publications Board
John Ackerman, University of Colorado at Boulder Gail E. Hawisher, University of Illinois Anne Herrington, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Christine Hult, Utah State University Kathleen E. Kiefer, Colorado State University Susan H. McLeod, University of California Santa Barbara Joan Mullin, University of Texas	Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University Donna Reiss, Clemson University Dickie Selfe, Ohio State University Chris Thaiss, University of California Davis Thea van der Geest, University of Twente Luuk Van Waes, University of Antwerp Carl Whithaus, University of California at Davis Art Young, Clemson University

The WAC Clearinghouse is pleased to provide access to digital books addressing writing and speaking across the curriculum. Please follow the links below to view individual books or book series.

Perspectives on Writing
Series Editor: Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University

Writing Selves/Writing Societies, edited by Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell

This is the first in a series of online books sponsored by the WAC Clearinghouse. The chapters in this edited collection consider human activity and writing from three different perspectives: the role of writing in producing work and the economy; the role of writing in creating, maintaining, and transforming socially located selves and communities; and the role of writing formal education. The editors observe, "The activity approaches to understanding writing presented in this volume give us ways to examine more closely how people do the work of the world and form the relations that give rise to the sense of selves and societies through writing, reading, and circulating texts. These essays provide major contributions to both writing research and activity theory as well as to the recently emerged but now robust research tradition that brings the two together."

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Series Editor: Charles Bazerman, UC Santa Barbara

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics, by Elenore Long
Writing Program Administration, by Susan H. McLeod
Revision: History, Theory, and Practice, edited by Alice Horning and Anne Becker
Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum, by Charles Bazerman, Joseph Little, Lisa Bethel, Teri Chavkin, Danielle Fouquette, and Janet Garufis
Invention in Rhetoric and Composition, by Janice M. Lauer

The books in this series, edited by Charles Bazerman and published jointly with Parlor Press, provide compact, comprehensive and convenient surveys of what has been learned through research and practice as composition has emerged as an academic discipline over the last half century. Each volume is devoted to a single topic that has been of interest in rhetoric and composition in recent years, to synthesize and make available the sum and parts of what has been learned on that topic. These reference guides are designed to help deepen classroom practice by making available the collective wisdom of the field and will provide the basis for new research. The Series is intended to be of use to teachers at all levels of education, researchers and scholars of writing, graduate students learning about the field, and all who have interest in or responsibility for writing programs and the teaching of writing.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
Series Editors: Charlie Lowe, Grand Valley State University, and Pavel Zemliansky, James Madison University

The books in this series, edited by Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky, and published jointly with Parlor Press, present peer-reviewed collections of essays--all composed by teachers for students--with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. The Writing Spaces' mission is to build a library of quality open access texts for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks. Each series collection will contain engaging essays from different writing teachers in the field and will explore important topics about writing in a manner and style accessible both to teachers and students. While the first volume will focus on instructional texts for first year composition, future editions may feature texts for writing in the disciplines and professional writing classrooms. Additionally, each collection will be supplemented by classroom activities and exercises which illustrate and implement the ideas discussed by the authors. The Call for Proposals is available at WritingSpaces.org.

Landmark Publications in Writing Studies
Series Editor: David Russell, Iowas State University

View a collection of republished books that have made a significant impact on writing-across-the-curriculum theory and practice. Many of these books are published with permission of their authors. Others are still available in print and are published here with permission of the publisher.

Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science, by Charles Bazerman
Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities, edited by Charles Bazerman and James Paradis
Language Connections: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, edited by Toby Fulwiler and Art Young
How Writing Shapes Thinking: A Study of Teaching and Learning, by Judith A. Langer and Arthur N. Applebee
Strengthening Programs for Writing Across the Curriculum, edited by Susan H. McLeod
Writing Across the Curriculum: A Guide to Developing Programs, edited by Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, edited by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young
Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines, by Barbara E. Walvoord and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, in collaboration with Virginia Johnson Anderson, John R. Breihan, Susan Miller Robison, and A. Kimbrough Sherman
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum 3/e, by Art Young

RhetNet Books

In July 1997, RhetNet editor and founder Eric Crump wrote, "We use the word 'books' with some trepidation in these parts, but the texts included in association with that term exhibit decidedly bookish characteristics. They were, after all, written and edited as books and so were given book-shape. They appear here, however, and so begin to fuzz around the edges, acquiring a glimmer of online features, a hint of hypertext, and the possibility of reader/writer interaction. But we must portray them for what they primarily are: books. Mighty good books, IMNSHO. :)" We encourage you to view the books in this groundbreaking series.

Conversations: Computer-Mediated Dialogue, Multi-logue, and Learning, by Beth W. Baldwin
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Cyberspace, edited by Beth Baldwin and Tim Flood

The WAC Clearinghouse is pleased to direct its visitors to the Computers and Composition Digital Press Web site. This innovative press promises to remap our understanding of online publishing of book-length projects. The founders of the press write that they are "committed to publishing innovative, multimodal digital projects. The Press will also publish ebooks (print texts in electronic form available for reading online or for downloading); however, we are particularly interested in digital projects that cannot be printed on paper, but that have the same intellectual heft as a book."