This text is a transformation of Writing for Success, a text adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee.

Includes:

Introduction to Reading Literature
Emphasis in Reading and Writing
Using the Quest to Understand Literature
Introduction to Fiction Part 1: Structure and Consequences
Introduction to Fiction Part 2: Resourceful Source Material
Introduction to Fiction Part 3: Sounding the Symbols
Introduction to Fiction Part 4: Setting the Symbols
Introduction to Fiction Part 5: People Playing Symbols
Introduction - Essays Tracts and Other Writings
Introduction to Poetry

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. 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. As mentioned in 'About Us', 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.

As schools, as well as the workplace, become more automated, and remote or distance learning/working becomes the “new normal,” understanding and leveraging artificial intelligence will become a critical skill.

Table of Contents
1. Robo-Grader: Artificial Intelligence As An Automated Essay Grading System, The Backstory
2. Thinking Like A Robo-Grader: What The Research Tells Us... Words Matter!
3. Organizational Style & Structure of Response for a Robo-Grader
4. Read Like A Robo-Grader: Developing Audience Awareness
5. Writing For A Robo-Grader: Understanding the Toulmin Method
6. Practice Activities For Reading Like A Robo-Grader: Become A Reading Detective
7. Postscript: Closing Thoughts

The goal for this textbook was to revise and adapt the open educational resource (OER) textbook, Writing for Success so that the revision met the current needs of California Community College students. We succeeded in meeting our goal by adding additional scaffolding for developmental and ESL learners to help them with reading, writing, and college success skills; materials for learning in multiple modalities; teacher resources; and expanded materials about the reading and writing process. This in-depth revision allowed us to combine pre-collegiate level English instruction along with first year composition materials. We have not only fulfilled all that we said we would do in our initial proposal but, in addition, expanded the focus to all potential learners in a first year college composition course.This OER is a revision of “Writing for Success” that includes instructional scaffolding for students who require additional support. New sections on college readiness and success, reading skills, the reading-writing connection, grammar, and an ESL compendium have been added.

1: Writing and College Success
2: Writing and the Art of Rhetoric
3: The Reading-Writing Connection
4: The Reading-Writing Process- Prewriting
5: Thesis Statements, Topic Sentences and the First Draft
6: Body Paragraphs
7: Revising and Editing
8: Creating Presentations and Sharing Your Ideas
9: Argumentation - Purpose and Persuasion in Writing
10: Adding to the Conversation with Research Papers
11: Clarity, Conciseness, and Style
12: Grammar

Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level.

Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level.

Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/writing-spaces-readings-on-writing-vol-ii

Third revision, August 2017.

Welcome to Writing Unleashed, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as an extremely brief guide for students, jam-packed with teachers’ voices, students’ voices, and engineered for fun.

This textbook was created by Dana Anderson, Ronda Marman, and Sybil Priebe - all first-year college composition instructors at the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, ND.

Download here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JoX94RjwS-WoPnGCyIZ9ZTQeX74iG9hS

Welcome to Writing Unleashed, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as an extremely brief guide for students, jam-packed with teachers’ voices, students’ voices, and engineered for fun.

able of Contents
Open License
Authors
Foreward
Introduction
Why, What, When, Where, How, Who?
Rhetorical Situation
Brainstorming & Prewriting
Thesis & Topic Sentences
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Peer Review
Common Essay Problems
Strategies
Narration
Description
Illustration
Process Analysis
Compare and Contrast
Division and Classification
Definition
Cause and Effect
Argument
Genres
Memoirs
Profiles
Essays
Letters
Email
Annotated Bibliography
Genres List
Research
The Research Process
Nerd
Grammar & Mechanics
Figurative Language
Style

In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational writing and regarding academic writing as less pertinent in their personal lives, education, and future careers. Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking and Communication connects students with works and exercises and promotes student learning that is kairotic and constructive. Dr. Tanya Long Bennett, professor of English at the University of North Georgia, poses questions that encourage active rather than passive learning. Furthering ideas presented in Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First-Year Composition as a complimentary companion, Writing and Literature builds a new conversation covering various genres of literature and writing. Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful visual aids throughout emphasizes the importance of critical reading and analysis in producing a successful composition. Writing and Literature is a refreshing textbook that links learning, literature, and life.

In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational writing and regarding academic writing as less pertinent in their personal lives, education, and future careers. Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking and Communication connects students with works and exercises and promotes student learning that is kairotic and constructive. Dr. Tanya Long Bennett, professor of English at the University of North Georgia, poses questions that encourage active rather than passive learning. Furthering ideas presented in Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First-Year Composition as a complimentary companion, Writing and Literature builds a new conversation covering various genres of literature and writing. Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful visual aids throughout emphasizes the importance of critical reading and analysis in producing a successful composition. Writing and Literature is a refreshing textbook that links learning, literature, and life.

Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/writing-and-literature-composition-as-inquiry-learning-thinking-and-communication

This book has been a part of my pandemic journey with a goal of building English language learner resources, gathering up what I have learned about anti-racist, culturally responsive, and decolonization approaches. I know that I have not nearly met this goal in this single resource and that there is so much more to do. I am simply starting on the collective path and am so humbled to join fellow colleagues in the work of rewriting the myths and false narratives of our field. This goes well beyond one specific discipline. It is a call to all educators and all institutions to choose love in action, to choose change.

This OER text includes the following:

an introduction to creating a collectivist culture to support learning
models and activities about multiple ways of organizing ideas in an essay.
short readings and discussion highlighting the work of community organizers, activists, and social justice movements
writing prompts that ask learners to synthesize, reflect on, and connect to the topics
projects inviting learners to apply the content to their community environment
additional resources offering multiple modalities for further learning including videos, articles, and podcasts
a contrastive and multilingual approach to exploring grammar patterns to support writing

Table of Contents
Creating Our Classroom Culture
Getting Ready to Write
Chapter 1: Identity
Chapter 2: World Englishes
Chapter 3: Power and Poetry
Chapter 4 ¡Si, Se Puede!
Chapter 5: Food Deserts
Chapter 6: Protecting Mauna Kea
Chapter 7: Black Lives Matter

Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Writing
Chapter 2: Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence?
Chapter 3: Punctuation
Chapter 4: Working with Words: Which Word Is Right?
Chapter 5: Help for English Language Learners
Chapter 6: Writing Paragraphs: Separating Ideas and Shaping Content
Chapter 7: Refining Your Writing: How Do I Improve My Writing Technique?
Chapter 8: The Writing Process: How Do I Begin?
Chapter 9: Writing Essays: From Start to Finish
Chapter 10: Rhetorical Modes
Chapter 11: Writing from Research: What Will I Learn?
Chapter 12: Writing a Research Paper
Chapter 13: APA and MLA Documentation and Formatting
Chapter 14: Creating Presentations: Sharing Your Ideas
Chapter 15: Readings: Examples of Essays

Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence is designed for students who have largely mastered the conventions of high-school level writing and are now rising to meet more the advanced expectations of college. Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to think of themselves as full, self-motivated members of the academic community. With concise explanations, clear multi-disciplinary examples and empathy for the challenges of student life, this short textbook both explains the purposes behind college-level writing and offers indispensable advice for organization and expression.

This text is meant to be used in any first year College Composition class or as a general guide to college writing. The book focuses on writing as a process, not a product. The goal is to help students discover their own writing process, trying out different methods and strategies to find what works best for them.

This text is meant to be used in any first year College Composition class or as a general guide to college writing. The book focuses on writing as a process, not a product. The goal is to help students discover their own writing process, tryin g out different methods and strategies to find what works best for them.

Table of Contents
Chapter One: Why Write?
Chapter Two: A Writing Process for Every Writer
Chapter Three: Defining Audience and Purpose
Chapter Four: Exploring: Finding a Topic
Chapter Five: Writing a Thesis
Chapter Six: Organizing
Chapter Seven: Drafting
Chapter Eight: Revising
Chapter Nine: Editing
Chapter Ten: Proofreading
Chapter Eleven: Research Process