Hello! I want to share with everyone a *new and free** "commons-based peer production"* composition textbook called Writing Commons<http://writingcommons.com/home>. By this we mean that we hope that crowds of people--from experts such as professors and professional writers to undergraduate students--can collaborate with us to revise the pages we've already written as well as write new pages.
Writing Commons <http://writingcommons.com/> aspires to be a community for writers, a creative learning space for students in courses that require college-level writing, a creative, interactive space for teachers to share resources and pedagogy. Our primary goal is to provide the resources and community students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing. At Writing Commons<http://writingcommons.com/>, we believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers–part of the cultural commons. Hence, we provide free access to an award-winning, college textbook that was published by a major publisher and awarded the *Distinguished Book Award *by *Computers and Composition: an International Journal. *By working collaboratively, we are hopeful that we can develop a new kind of writing textbook, a textbook not written by a single author in the old-school way but by us, by a crowd of people out there who think we need a new kind of writing text, one that is more interactive, more Web 2.0ish--a text that can be easily edited to meet your needs, a text that is readily available on your phone, PDA, or netbook, an expansive textbook that meets the needs of any college-level writer. Please check it out, spread the word, and Thank you!
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