Open Access Writing Handbook
Writing For Success (University of Minnesota)
Introductory Weeks
“Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources,” by Karen Rosenberg
“How to Read Like a Writer,” by Mike Bunn
Unit 1 – Who We Are
“Danger of a Single Story,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Shitty First Drafts,” by Anne Lamott from Bird by Bird
“Bad Ideas About Writing,” Edited by Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe
“Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?” by Sandra L. Giles
“In-Class Peer Review,” by Daniel Richards
Unit 2 – Inquiry-Based Research
“Navigating Genres,” by Kerry Dirk
“Understanding Discourse Communities,” by Dan Melzer
“Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking),” by Janet Boyd
“A Talk to Teachers,” by James Baldwin
“The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found,” by Colson Whitehead
“Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation,” by John Lewis
Unit 3 – Multimodal Approaches
“The Reader and Technology” by Toby Litt
“All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines,” by Nicholas Carr
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr
“Does the Internet Make You Smarter?” by Clay Shirkey
“Wikipedia Is Good for You!?” by James P. Purdy
“Collaborating Online: Digital Strategies for Group Work,” by Anthony Atkins
