In the Fall 2024 semester, 79 English sections used OER texts, which saved students over $155,000 in textbook costs! Please continue to use and explore OER texts for your classes!
For a collection of OER Resources for English 1101, view the pressbook by Jillian Grauman and Mary Childers.
Below is a list of separate OER texts and readings especially curated to align with our course objectives for ENGLISH 1101: Composition 1. You'll find materials for both yourself and your students. These sources have been vetted by the Composition Steering Committee and are *free* texts that you and your students can use as you work towards achieving the course objectives.
Many thanks go out to the folks at the Writing Commons, the authors and editors of Writing Spaces, and finally the WAC Clearinghouse.
Practice writing as a process involving inquiry and invention, composing, response from instructor and peers, revision, and editing according to appropriate conventions.
Recommended Texts
“Introduction” to Situating Writing Processes
by Hannah J. Rule
"So You've Got a Writing Assignment. Now What?"
by Corrine E. Hinton
Recommended Readings
"So You've Got a Writing Assignment? Now What? by Corinne E. Hinton
"One Sentence at a Time: The Need for Explicit Instruction in Teaching Students to Write Well." by Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler
Analyze rhetorical situations as they relate to discourse communities.
Recommended Texts
"The Concept of Discourse Community: Some Recent Personal History"
by John Swales
"Understanding Discourse Communities"
by Dan Melzer
Recommended Readings
Identify particular audiences and appropriate rhetorical moves, strategies, and/or responses.
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"Rhetorics of Speaking & Writing"
by Charles Bazerman
"Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis"
by Laura Bolin Carroll
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Demonstrate engagement with intellectually complex writing situations, accounting for multiple perspectives via readings, visual media, and other texts.
Recommended Texts
"Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric"
by Douglas Eyman
"Multi-Modal Communication: Writing in Five Modes"
by Ann Fillmore
Recommended Readings
Create texts, including essays, in print and/or digital formats that respond to varied rhetorical situations.
Recommended Texts
"Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric"
by Douglas Eyman
"Multi-Modal Communication: Writing in Five Modes"
by Ann Fillmore
Recommended Readings
Use suitable methods of citation.
Recommended Texts
"Annoying Ways People Use Sources"
by Kyle D. Stedman
"Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn’t (Always) Right"
by Janice Walker
Recommended Readings
Produce reflective writing for self-assessment.
Recommended Texts
"Weaving Personal Experience Into Academic Writing"
by Marjorie Stewart
"Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?"
by Sandra Giles
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