Bibliography of Possible Primary and Supplementary Texts for WRS 101: Exploring Writing

A. Possible Primary Texts (not all of the texts in this list include pedagogical materials like prompts for exploratory writing or writing assignments; a * indicates a need for a few additional pieces on writing process or comp theory)

*Birks, Roberta, Tomi Eng, and Julie Wachli. Landmarks: A Process Reader. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon Canada,1998.

Bishop, Wendy. On Writing: A Process Reader. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

*Bishop, Wendy, and James Strickland, ed. The Subject is Writing: Essays by Teachers and Students. 4th ed. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2006.

*Bolker, Joan, ed. The Writer’s Home Companion:An Anthology of the World’s Best Writing Advice, from Keats to Kunitz. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

*Bryant, Lizbeth A., and Heather M. Clark. Essays on Writing. Toronto: Longman, 2009.

*Carter, Shannon. Literacies in Context. Southlake, Texas: Fountainhead Press, 2007 (online).

*Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

*Elbow, Peter, and Pat Belanoff. Being a Writer: A Community of Writers Revisited. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

*---. A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

*Fulwiler, Toby. College Writing: A Personal Approach to Academic Writing. 3rd ed. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997.

*---. The Working Writer. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

*Goshgarian, Gary. Exploring Language. 11th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.

*Graves, Richard L., ed. Writing, Teaching, Learning: a Sourcebook. (4th Edition of Rhetoric and Composition). Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook Publishers/Heinemann, 1999.

Johnson, T. R. Teaching Composition: Background Readings. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.

Miller, Susan. The Norton Book of Composition Studies. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.

Norgaard, Rolf. Composing Knowledge: Readings for College Writers. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007.

Perl, Sondra, ed. Landmark Essays on Writing Process. Davis: Hermagoras Press, 1994.

Sargent, M. Elizabeth, and Cornelia C. Paraskevas. Conversations about Writing: Eavesdropping, Inkshedding, and Joining In. Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2005.

*Sunstein, Bonnie Stone, and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.

Stock, Patricia L., ed. Fforum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing. Upper Montclair: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1983.

Wardle, Elizabeth, and Doug Downs. Writing About Writing: A College Reader. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011.

Wiley, Mark, Barbara Gleason, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps. Composition In Four Keys: Inquiring into the Field. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1996.

Young, Richard E., and Yameng Liu. Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Invention in Writing. Davis: Hermagoras Press, 1994

B. Possible Supplementary Texts for WRS 101 (working writers reflecting on or sharing advice about the writing process. These are a few suggestions out of many; please share any favorite texts to add to this list.)

Bloom, Lynn Z. Fact and Artifact: Writing Nonfiction. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Brown, Kurt. Facing the Lion: Writers on Life and Craft. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Goldberg, Natalie. Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life. New York, Bantam Books, 1990.

---. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Boston: Shambhala, 1986.

Halpern, Daniel, ed. Who’s Writing This? Great Contemporary Writers on Writing. Hopewell: The Ecco Press, 1995.

Heffron, Jack, ed. The Best Writing on Writing: a Collection of the Year’s Most Provocative Views on Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, the Writing Life, Scriptwriting and More. Cincinnati: Story Press, 1994.

Hoffman, Eva. Lost in Translation: a Life in a New Language. New York: Penguin Books, 1989.

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Doubleday, 1994.

Miller, Brenda, and Suzanne Paola. Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Moore, Dinty W. The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.

Murray, Donald M. The Craft of Revision. 5th ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2004.

---. Write to Learn. 4th ed. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.

---. Writing to Deadline: the Journalist at Work. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000.

Perl, Sondra, and Mimi Schwartz. Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.

Root Jr., Robert L., and Michael Steinberg, eds. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. 4th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.

Schneider, Pat. Writing Alone and with Others. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Smiley, Jane, comp. Writers on Writing: More Collected Essays from the New York Times. 2nd vol . New York: Times Books, 2003.

Stafford, Kim. The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Stafford, William. Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer’s Vocation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1978.

---. You Must Revise Your Life. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1986.

Wachtel, Eleanor, comp. Writers & Company: In Conversation with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1993.

Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. 8th ed. New York: HarperCollins Quill, 2001.

---. Writing to Learn: How to Write—and Think—Clearly About Any Subject at All. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.

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