English - Open Resources
Open Textbooks
- About Writing: A Guide
Condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students. - Business Communication for Success
Provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. - Business English for Success
Provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. - Business Writing - Lumen Learning
Allows students to develop effective written communication strategies specifically for the workplace. From idea gathering to drafting to delivery, this course will prepare students to write a variety of documents, including memos, letters, and reports, tailored to professional audiences. - College Success - Lumen Learning
Provides resources for first-year college students on the path to academic and life success. Time management, effective methods of communication, career exploration, and practical tools for academic achievement are a few of the topic areas covered. - Composition Reader - Lumen Learning
Contains an anthology of readings for Composition I course. - Developmental Writing - Lumen Learning
Introduces students to the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing. - English Composition I - Lumen Learning
Composition I focuses on principles of writing, critical reading and essay composition using rhetorical styles common in college-level writing (narrative, example/illustration, compare/contrast, cause-and-effect, argument). - English Composition II - Lumen Learning
Teaches research skills by emphasizing the development of advanced analytical/critical reading skills, proficiency in investigative research, and the writing of persuasive prose including documented and researched argumentative essays. - Frameworks for Academic Writing
Written by a professor whose philosophy of teaching writing is “writing with the teacher present” or simply students doing ALL their writing in class. This way of teaching writing is more like athletic practice than class. Students practice writing while the coach (professor or instructor) was around to break steps down into smaller and smaller elements and to help them learn the skills “in real time. - Rhetoric and Composition: A Guide for the College Writer
Designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as a practical guide for students struggling to bring their writing up to the level expected of them by their professors and instructors. - Technical Writing - Lumen Learning
Focuses on the organization, development, and refinement of technical communications. Internal and external communications, including letters, memos, reports, and presentations are included. - Writing Commons
Free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research. - Writing For Success
Provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. - Methods of Discovery
Online writing guide by Pavel Zemliansky - Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
Choosing & Using Sources presents a process for academic research and writing, from formulating your research question to selecting good information and using it effectively in your research assignments. - Exploring Perspectives
Pdf textbook on rhetorical analysis. - Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Vol. I
From the Open Textbook Library. Topics include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres. - Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Vol. II
Topics in this volume include rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration.
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