EnglishComposition.Org publishes content on a variety of writing topics.
The site aims to be sufficiently ecclectic in sharing content that helps writers build the vital skills and knowledge and spirit required to participate well in today’s and tomorrow’s networked society.
Site Creator
Hi. I’m Anthony R. Garcia. Adjunct writing professor. Full-time government employee. Apparent creator of this site. Increasingly confused by the words author, writer, creator…, but ever more excited about the study and practice of writing.
For questions or feedback, please send me an email: anthony.garcia@englishcomposition.org
How the Site Content is Organized
ECO is organized into four sections: Essential Writing, Advanced Writing, Blogging, and Videos. These are categories set up for convenience and ease of navigation. Whenever I assign content to one of the first two categories, I am making a values-based decision, which not everyone will agree with.
This site may expand to include additional sections, including one targeted to teachers, but this site’s primary audience is and will remain writers.
Here’s a bit more about each section:
Essential Writing
Essential Writing covers basic grammar, punctuation, and usage topics, as well as the common mistakes that writers make. Grammar and usage discussions often veer away from actual writing concerns. In this section, I try to keep the content relevant to the needs of writers.
Advanced Writing
Advanced Writing covers style, rhetorical grammar, and composition topics. I will be expanding this section over the next several months and hope to include the ideas and perspectives of other expert writers and teachers of writing.
Blogging
I was going to write about blogging on a different site, but I decided it belongs here for at least two reasons. First, although many thought leaders present it mostly from a business perspective, blogging is primarily a writing endeavor. In fact, I see it as the full expression of what a writer does: writing strategically with text, images, video, design, and audio within a variety of formats (or genres), competitively and cooperatively in the public sphere. Second, I believe bloggers are at the center of the digital economy. With that comes responsibility, and bloggers can draw on the principles of composition and rhetoric to meet that responsibility.
Videos
This section is a curated collection of videos about writing. I look for engaging and insightful videos that represent a variety of writing professions, including academic writing, fiction writing, blogging, screenwriting, business writing, copywriting, and more. I enjoy seeing the common threads that bind writers of different professions. Writers learn a great deal from other writers.