This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students!

In this learning area, you will learn how to develop an argumentative essay and stronger critical thinking skills. This learning area will help you develop your arguments, understand your audience, evaluate source material, approach arguments rhetorically, and avoid logical fallacies. Here, you’ll also learn about evaluating other arguments and creating digital writing projects related to your argument.

This book is divided into two parts. Part I is a Composition Handbook designed to teach students the components of the writing process and the conventions of various forms of school and college writing assignments. Part II is an Anthology of Literature designed to help students read actively, analyze, understand, enjoy, and appreciate stories, poems, and plays by a diverse and inclusive group of exceptional writers.

TABLE OF CONTENT

I. The Writing Process
1. Access and Acquire Knowledge
2. Find Your Thesis
3. Make a Plan
4. Write Your First Draft
5. Revise and Edit
6. Cite Your Sources

II. Common Writing Assignments
7. The Narrative Essay
8. The Examples Essay
9. The Extended Definition Essay
10. The Process (“How to”) Essay
11. The Cause/Effect Essay
12. The Compare/Contrast Essay
13. The Argument Essay
14. Further Reading

III. Poetry
15. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth (Regular Verse)
16. “Birches” by Robert Frost (Blank Verse)
17. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes (Free Verse)
18. “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet)
19. “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service (Ballad)
20. “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats (Ode)
21. “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (Dramatic Monologue)
22. “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop (Villanelle)
23. “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman (Elegy)
24. “Eastern Guard Tower” by Etheridge Knight (Haiku)
25. An Anthology of Poems for Further Study

IV. Short Stories
26. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
27. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
28. Kate Chopin (1850–1904)
29. Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943)
30. E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861–1913)
31. O. Henry (1862–1910)
32. Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
33. Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870–1916)
34. Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
35. Willa Cather (1873–1947)
36. James Joyce (1882–1941)
37. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
38. Ring Lardner (1885–1933)
39. Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
40. William Faulkner (1897–1962)
41. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
42. Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001)
43. Roald Dahl (1916–1990)
44. Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
45. Fay Weldon (1931–)
46. Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010)
47. William Dempsey Valgardson (1939–)
48. Alice Walker (1944–)
49. Leslie Marmon Silko (1948–)
50. Andrea Levy (1956–2019)

V. The Novella
51. Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1843-1916)
52. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1850–1904)

VI. The Novel
53. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

VII. Drama
54. Twelfth Night: Act 1
55. Twelfth Night: Act 2
56. Twelfth Night: Act 3
57. Twelfth Night: Act 4
58. Twelfth Night: Act 5
59. Twelfth Night: Study Guide
60. Hamlet: Act 1
61. Hamlet: Act 2
62. Hamlet: Act 3
63. Hamlet: Act 4
64. Hamlet: Act 5
65. Hamlet: Study Guide
66. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
67. The Importance of Being Earnest: Study Guide
68. Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
69. Major Barbara: Study Guide

Appendix A: Glossary of English Rhetoric, Grammar, and Usage
Appendix B: Glossary of Literary Terms
Appendix C: Writing an Analysis of a Poem, Story, or Play
Appendix D: Brave New World Casebook
Appendix E: The Turn of the Screw Casebook
Appendix F: Exercises and Tutorials on Grammar and MLA/APA Documentation
About the Authors
List of Links by Chapter for Print Users

ENGL 1020: English Composition II: An Integrated Media Approach. Continuation and further development of material and strategies introduced in English Composition I. Primary emphasis on composition, including research strategies, argumentative writing, evaluation, and analysis. The course utilizes a scaffolding approach as well as cross-curricular resources and assignments to focus the course around a central theme: Analysis of Film Genres. All resources are OER, including the integration of textbooks: Waymaker: Introduction to College Composition by Lumen and Exploring Movie Construction and Production by John Reich.

EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in all facets of their lives. Straightforward and readable instruction sections introduce key vocabulary, concepts, and strategies. Three culminating assignments (Descriptive Personal Narrative; Text-Wrestling Analysis; Persuasive Research Essay) give students a chance to show their learning while also practicing rhetorical awareness techniques for future writing situations.

Table of Contents
Part One: Description, Narration, and Reflection

Chapter One: Describing a Scene or Experience
Chapter Two: Telling a Story
Chapter Three: Reflecting on an Experience
Assignment: Descriptive Personal Narrative
Part Two: Text Wrestling

Chapter Four: Interpretation, Analysis, and Close Reading
Chapter Five: Summary and Reader-Response
Chapter Six: Analysis and Synthesis
Assignment: Text wrestling Analysis
Part Three: Research and Argumentation

Chapter Seven: Argumentation
Chapter Eight: Research Concepts
Chapter Nine: Interacting with Sources
Assignment: Persuasive Research Essay

Users of Expressions and Inquiry will note that it has three major sections—Section One which primarily focuses on the nuts and bolts of writing, otherwise known as Rhetoric and Composition, important to get writers started with the process of writing and also considering what their point or claim is. This section shares ideas about expressing ideas and is primarily derived from the Wiki Book on Rhetoric and Composition. Section Two continues to discuss academic writing including research and other inquiry methods as well as analysis and blends more of the previously cited Wiki Book and Shane Abram’s EmpoWord: A Student Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers. It also includes some examples from students at Lansing Community College and more discussion about thinking deeply about writing and techniques. Finally, Section Three Narrative and Description, is primarily based on Shane Abram’s EmpoWord. We circled back to the techniques of description and narration because we believe these techniques are needed to engage readers and develop voice in all writing. We hope all of this will help students in the Composition courses we teach and beyond.

Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction, edited by Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew, with associate editors Elif Guler and Robbin Zeff Warner, addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses. Written by experts in the field (members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee for Effective Practices in OWI and other experts and stakeholders), the contributors to this collection explain the foundations of the recently published (2013) A Position Statement of Principles and Examples Effective Practices for OWI and provide illustrative practical applications. To that end, in every chapter, the authors address issues of inclusive and accessible writing instruction (based upon physical and mental disability, linguistic ability, and socioeconomic challenges) in technology enhanced settings.

OER text with emphasis on contemporary issues of social justice, race, gender and inclusion. Audio versions of each chapter of the textbook are embedded in the text.

1: Introduction - Why Study Argument?
2: Reading to Figure out the Argument
3: Writing a Summary of Another Writer’s Argument
4: Assessing the Strength of an Argument
5: Making Your Recommendation in Response to an Argument
6: The Research Process
7: Forming Your Own Argument
8: How Arguments Appeal to Emotion
9: How Arguments Establish Trust and Connection
10: Writing an Analysis of an Argument’s Strategies
11: Shaping Sentences to Drive Your Points Home

This is a review of Expression and Inquiry (https://louis.oercommons.org/courses/expression-and-inquiry) completed by Erick Piller, Nicholls State University.

Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class offers students necessary concepts and practice to learn all the elements needed for successful first year writing and set the stage for future writing success in college.
Chapter 1: The Introduction
Chapter 2: Reading in Writing Class
Chapter 3: Thinking and Analyzing Rhetorically
Chapter 4: Writing a Summary and Synthesizing
Chapter 5: The Writing Process
Chapter 6: Structuring, Paragraphing, and Styling
Chapter 7: Revising and Refining
Chapter 8: Multimodal Reading and Visual Rhetoric
Chapter 9: The Research Process
Chapter 10: Sources and Research
Chapter 11: Ethical Source Integration: Citation, Quoting, and Paraphrasing
Chapter 12: Documentation Styles: MLA and APA

This three-unit course plan was created for use by instructors of ENGL 102: Composition II at Nicholls State University, equivalent to CENL 1023 in the Louisiana Master Course Articulation Matrix. It includes major and supplemental assignments as well as open and freely available readings.

Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one multimedia textbook geared towards multiple learning styles and disciplines. The components of the textbook, including the embedded videos, could be swapped in and out in order to accommodate a professor’s best idea of his/her own course design.

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.

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