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Out-of Print and Online Libraries

The Global Text Project: Education Books

The Writing Across the Curriculum Clearninghouse (e-texts of many books on composition, including:)

Bazerman, C., & Russell, D. (200). Writing Selves/Writing Society: Research from Activity Perspectives. Perspectives on Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity. ISBN 0-9727023-1-8.

Historical books from NCTE, including such classics as:

Applebee, A. N. (1974). Tradition and reform in the teaching of English: A history. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

700 Free eBooks from the University of California Press

Computers and Composition Digital Press

Writing@CSU Open Access Textbooks

PDF Files of Individual Books

Braddock, R., Lloyd-Jones, R., & Schoer, L. (1963). Research in written composition. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Brady, M. (2011). What's worth learning. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Dixon, J. (1975). Growth through English set in the perspective of the seventies. Huddersfield, Yorkshire: National Association for the Teaching of English; and Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Garcia, A. (Ed.) (2014). Teaching in the connected learning classroom. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub.

GCTE's Literary Notables of Georgia: Biographical Histories of Selected Georgia Authors

The Grandiloquent Dictionary

Hillocks, G. (1975). Observing and Writing. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Hillocks, G. (1986). Research on written composition: New directions for teaching. Urbana, IL: National Conference on Research in English and Educational Resources Information Center.

Hillocks, G., McCabe, B. J., & McCampbell, J. F. (1971). The Dynamics of English Instruction, Grades 7-12. New York: Random House.

Johannessen, L. (1992). Illumination Rounds: Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Johannessen, L., Kahn, E., & Walter, C. C. (1982). Designing and Sequencing Prewriting Activities. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Rubin, D. L., & Dodd, W. M. (1987). Talking into Writing.Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Smagorinsky, P. (1991). Expressions: Multiple Intelligences in the English Class. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Smagorinsky, P. (1996). Standards in practice, grades 9-12. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Smagorinsky, P., & Gevinson, S. (1989). Fostering the Reader's Response: Rethinking the Literature Curriculum, Grades 7-12. Palo Alto, CA: Dale Seymour.

Smagorinsky, P., McCann, T., & Kern, S. (1987). Explorations: Introductory activities for literature and composition, grades 7-12. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Smagorinsky, P., & O'Donnell-Allen, C. (n.d.). Expansions: An Online Book of Vocabulary Games

Smith, M. W. (1984). Reducing Writing Apprehension. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Smith, M. W. (1991). Understanding Unreliable Narrators. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Strong, W. (1986). Creative Approaches to Sentence Combining. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Handbooks of Reading Research
Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. I

Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. II

Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. III

Online Literary Texts

George Hillocks Doctoral Dissertation
The Synthesis of Art and Ethic in Tom Jones