This website has been built for a simple reason—to provide college instructors and students with a handbook for college composition courses. This is not an online textbook. However, it is intended to be a website that can replace a textbook. Why?
Take your pick:
Right now, the website is built around Composition I (English 101, Basic Rhetoric, etc.). It is laid out in 7 units, with 3 supplemental units covering information that students probably need to know right away, even though they haven't had a chance to learn them yet.
Take your pick:
- College textbooks are too expensive, or
- Most composition textbooks fail to address how students really use writing skills, or
- Providing college students with another resource to learn argument seemed like a good idea.
Right now, the website is built around Composition I (English 101, Basic Rhetoric, etc.). It is laid out in 7 units, with 3 supplemental units covering information that students probably need to know right away, even though they haven't had a chance to learn them yet.
