Open Educational Resources (OER): English & Writing

Scott McLean, Arizona Western College
Scott McLean’s 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.

Edited by Sarah Wangler, Tina Ulrich
This book is a free and open resource for composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER rhetoric and writing texts that lack readings. All of the essays in this reader are versatile rhetorically and thematically. It is arranged alphabetically by author name. Each essay has a series of hashtags that apply to the essay in some way. You can search for essays thematically for topics like education, the environment, politics, or health. You can also search for essays based on composition concepts like analysis, synthesis, and research. You can search for essays that are based on shared values, essays that rely heavily on ethos, logos, or pathos, essays that are very kairos-dependent, and essays that are scholarly.

From WikiBooks; the contents are in the familiar "Wiki" format but is also available online or printable.

Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text.

Dr Charlie Lowe, Grand Valley State University and Dr Pavel Zemliansky, James Madison University
Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing are collections of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.

Dr. Charlie Lowe, Grand Valley State University and Dr. Pavel Zemliansky, James Madison University
Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing are collections of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.

"Open Oregon Educational Resources promotes textbook affordability for community college and university students, and facilitates widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials."

The Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill has an extensive array of handouts from writing basics, argument, citation guides, to writing across the curriculum

Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY Fredonia

Author's description: This book, "shows students, some of whom will themselves become teachers, that literature actually has something to say to them." ..."After an introductory chapter that offers advice on how to read (and teach) literature, the book consists of a series of chapters that examine individual literary works ranging from The Iliad to Charles Dickens’Bleak House. These chapters can not substitute for reading the actual works. Rather they are intended to help students read those works. They are attempts to demystify the act of reading and to show that these works, whether they are nearly three thousand or less than two hundred years old, still have important things to say to contemporary readers. "

"The Open Course Collection is a curated selection of course materials developed by educators in B.C. that can be accessed by educators in B.C. and beyond for use in the classroom, in an institutional learning management system, or in other teaching and learning platforms."

English resources form Saylor Academy, offering free and open online courses since 2008

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading."

Allison Hosier, University of AlbanyDaryl Bullis, Babson CollegeDeborah Bernnard, University of AlbanyGreg Bobish, University of AlbanyIrina Holden, University of Albany Jenna Hecker, University of Albany Tor Loney , Albany Public Library,Trudi Jacobson, University of Albany

The Information Literacy User’s Guide introduces students to critical concepts of information literacy as defined for the information-infused and technology-rich environment in which they find themselves.