CU Write: Cameron Composition

Abstract

This textbook collects writing about writing from scholars and writing programs across the country, organizing this material into sections tailored to the work you’ll be doing in composition courses here at Cameron. Your instructor will probably not assign every single section of this book, but instead will pick and choose the sections most relevant to their individual class. You might be directed to specific chapters or sections of this book from weblinks on Blackboard or in instructional emails from your professor. Or, you might be asked to navigate to the assigned sections using the table of contents. You can also use this textbook as a reference for your own writing–in your composition courses as well as in other classes where you have writing assignments. The sections on basic skills, style, mechanics, and the elements of an essay are relevant to whatever you’re writing, and you might find it useful to browse through those sections on your own as you write and revise essays and reports in any of your classes.