Use this page to find English Composition related open-source (e.g. free-to-read) textbooks and reference materials to enhance your composition experience and to improve your writing.
This writer’s reference, by Robin Jeffrey, condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research.
Written by Kathryn Crowther, Lauren Curtright, Nancy Gilbert, Barbara Hall, Tracienne Ravita, and Kirk Swenson, this resource provides an introduction to writing and research, including a chapter on grammar and punctuation.
Provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
Writing in College, by Amy Guptill, is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text.
Composition 2 is an expository writing course requiring more advanced writing skills than Composition 1, yet reviewing and incorporating some of the same skills. This course teaches research skills by emphasizing the development of advanced analytical/critical reading skills, proficiency in investigative research, and the writing of persuasive prose including documented and researched argumentative essays.
Written by Steven Krause, this book will guide you through the process of research writing by emphasizing a series of exercises that touch on different and related parts of the research process.
Written by Kathryn Crowther, Lauren Curtright, Nancy Gilbert, Barbara Hall, Tracienne Ravita, and Kirk Swenson, this resource provides an introduction to writing and research, including a chapter on grammar and punctuation.
Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.
A focus on the organization, development, and refinement of technical communications. Internal and external communications, including letters, memos, reports, and presentations are included.
