The Writing Commons

This looks like a very valuable resource for students and others looking for help and support with writing.

Here's an excerpt from the Writing Commons mission statement:
"Writing Commons 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. "

• First, we provide resources students need to improve their writing. Currently, Writing Commons offers free access to an award-winning, college textbook, which was published by a major publisher in 2003 and received the Distinguished Book Award in 2004 from Computers and Composition, an academic journal.
• Second, in the spirit of the cultural commons, we invite our readers, particularly college faculty and students, to help us develop this text, so that it meets the needs of students in diverse writing courses.  Beyond expanding Writing Commons so it could be the required text for technical and professional writing courses, fiction courses, creative nonfiction courses--and so on--we hope to inspire our colleagues to introduce new media elements, from videos, podcasts, to interactive components.  Please see our Call for Writers for details on how you can get involved!
• Third, because we believe students learn chiefly by writing and by sharing reviews of one another's texts, we provide a writing space for students to develop profile pages, chat with classmates, and share pictures and notes: Community!   

 Thanks to Tannis Morgan for drawing my attention to this.