Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
Series Editors: Trace Daniels-Lerberg, University of Utah; Bryna Siegel Finer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Mary Stewart, California State University, San Marcos; and Matthew Vetter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Associate Editors: Colin Charlton, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Rachel Buck, American University of Sharjah; Xiao (Katy) Tan, Duke University
The books in this independent series, which is co-published with WritingSpaces.org and 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, and the series editors have partnered with the WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press to provide wide access to the books. Each series volume contains engaging essays from different writing teachers in the field and explores important topics about writing in a manner and style accessible both to teachers and students. While the first volumes 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 founding editors for this series and the editors of its first two volumes are Charles Lowe, Grand Valley State University, and Pavel Zemliansky, James Madison University.
You can download all volumes in the series at the Writing Spaces website (https://writingspaces.org), Parlor Press website (https://parlorpress.com/pages/writing-spaces), and here on the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces).
Submission and Contact Information
The Call for Proposals for upcoming volumes can be found at WritingSpaces.org. You can contact the series editors by visiting their site information pages. To learn more about contributing to this and other series published by the WAC Clearinghouse, please view the Clearinghouse's invitation to contribute scholarly work and its statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our reviews are also guided by the statement on anti-racist scholarly reviewing practices, which can be found at https://tinyurl.com/reviewheuristic.
Individual chapters in the books in our series are released under Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow authors to retain copyright to their work. To learn more about these licenses, please view the Clearinghouse's Creative Commons Licenses page.
If the series editors determine that a proposal is consistent with the goals of the series and possesses strong scholarly merit, it will undergo a rigorous peer review by scholars drawn from our Publications Review Board or Editorial Board. Reviews are typically completed in one or two months.
Books in the Series
Technical Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 6
Edited by Kirk St.Amant and Pavel Zemliansky
The sixth volume of the Writing Spaces series explores writing in technical and professional communication. Like earlier books in the series, it continues the tradition of covering a wide range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of technical and professional writing. ... More
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 5
Edited by Trace Daniels-Lerberg, Dana Driscoll, Mary K. Stewart, and Matthew Vetter
The fifth volume of the Writing Spaces series continues the tradition of earlier volumes with diverse topics such as advanced rhetoric, translanguaging and code-meshing practices, revision workflows, environmental justice, social annotation, Wikipedia, plagiarism, accessibility, data analysis, writing knowledge transfer, and more. ... More
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 4
Edited by Dana Driscoll, Megan Heise, Mary Stewart, and Matthew Vetter
The fourth volume of the Writing Spaces series continues the tradition of the first two books with topics diverse topics such as place-based research, source credibility, technologies of trust, equitable language practices, social media, accessibility, feedback, racial literacy, research communities, privacy and digital technologies, navigating social contexts, writing workflows, transfer, grading, genre, writing for social change, and more. ... More
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 3
Edited by Dana Driscoll, Mary Stewart and Matthew Vetter
The third volume of the Writing Spaces series continues the tradition of the first two books with topics such as voice and style in writing, rhetorical appeals, discourse communities, multimodal composing, visual rhetoric, credibility, exigency, working with personal experience in academic writing, globalized writing and rhetoric, constructing scholarly ethos, imitation and style, and rhetorical punctuation. ... More
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2
Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
The essays in this volume address topics including the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration.... More
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1
Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
The essays in this volume address topics including 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.... More