LibGuides: Valencia Writer: Supplemental OER Textbooks

Supplemental OER Resources

A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading by Ellen C. Carillo A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading develops and enacts the mindful reading pedagogy described in Ellen C. Carillo's scholarly monograph Securing a Place for Reading in Composition: The Importance of Teaching for Transfer (Utah State UP). Offering a comprehensive approach to literacy instruction by focusing on reading and writing, A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading supports students as they become more reflective, deliberate, and mindful readers and writers by working within a metacognitive framework.
Composing Ourselves and Our World by Elizabeth Burrows et al. This textbook is meant for first year English Composition Courses. The text covers the essentials of composition and rhetoric in a recursive manner and introduces research skills.
EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers by Shane Abrams 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.
English Composition 1 Reading A developmental English reading anthology in three levels.
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking (Matthew Van Cleave) This is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of the textbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enable them to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is not a formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a“critical thinking textbook.” Author: Matthew Van Cleave, PhD, Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 2007.
88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition... by Wangler and Ulrich These essays were collected from online magazines that offer their articles under Creative Commons licenses. A few are from individual authors who generously agreed to give their work an open license in order to share it for this collection.
Technical Writing (OpenOregon) A textbook focusing on writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on audience analysis, writing for specific situations, document design, research processes, and visual aids.
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby) Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
The Word on College Reading and Writing (OpenOregon) An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.
Writing for Success (Open Textbook Library) 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.
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1 (Writing Spaces) Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students. Topics in this volume 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, Volume 2 (Writing Spaces) Topics in Volume 2 of the series include the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration.