Writing Commons

Good News: For 2022, we've now had over 1 million visitors visit Writing Commons for help with their writing and coursework. Nice to see our students and teachers find the site of some use.....

We aspire to keep improving the site. We welcome your feedback and contributions.

For 2020, we focused on revising the site, improving the navigation and site architecture. Along the way, we wrote an additional 300 articles.....And now, as we begin the new year, we are focused on building new courses so folks can see how our commons can be used productively in the classroom.

Hopefully....in 2021 we can also give some attention to marketing out site so folks know about all of the revisions....

Meanwhile, our readership for 2020 was pretty good...certainly not terrible.....Our challenge is it's taking so long to really complete the site so that it meets our readers' needs.....But we are getting closer and we believe in time quality will net a really significant global readership.

I would like to wish all a Happy New Year and to let you know that we have some exciting changes coming to WritingCommons.org for 2020! We are expanding the site significantly with new content and our goal is to create an online encyclopedia for academic and professional writing. As a disclaimer for any future posts of mine, I manage the technical side of the site and not the lessons or articles... those are created by trained and licensed professionals. Once again, Happy New Year!

Alston Chapman

Preparing the 4th edition of Writing Commons has been loads of work....TBH, it's been such a heavy lift that I'm not sure we would have done it if not for Google Analytics.
Seeing the utility of our efforts is a bit inspiring.....Right now it's pleasant to see so many.users logged on--reading such a range of pages....from all over..........

Happy to report we are on track for publishing the 4th edition in January.

Happy to see we've reached 9 million users.....

We continue to work on the new edition, and we anticipate posting it in January 2020.

Good to see that we are approaching 9 million users at Writing Commons. This is encouraging to us as we work to basically tear down the foundations of our past efforts and rebuild. It's so rewarding and affirming to feel the reader over your shoulder. We hope to relaunch soon....