This file contains writing lessons and assignments for a Level 1 academic ESL class with an emphasis on writing paragraphs. It can be combined with the other files in this folder to create an entire OER based class. 

This course focuses on the period between roughly 1550-1850. American ideas of race had taken on a certain shape by the middle of the nineteenth century, consolidated by legislation, economics, and the institution of chattel slavery. But both race and identity meant very different things three hundred years earlier, both in their dictionary definitions and in their social consequences. How did people constitute their identities in early America, and how did they speak about these identities? Texts will include travel writing, captivity narratives, orations, letters, and poems, by Native American, English, Anglo-American, African, and Afro-American writers.

In this syllabus from Fall 2022, Roshelle Amundson provides bibliographic citations and annotations for resources used in place of a traditional textbook. These resources include a combination of Creative Commons licensed materials.

Topics in the course schedule include: Overview of the Writing Process; Grammar du Jour; Creative Nonfiction; Three Minute Thesis; One Minute Paper; Narrative Essay; Braided Essays; Hermit Crab Essay; Ethos, Pathos, and Logos; Casual Analysis Essays; Faulty Causal Analysis, Henny Penny, and Reductio Absurdum; The Research Essay; Voice/Tone etc.

These course materials were designed for English Composition II at Southwest Tennessee Community College (Memphis, TN) by a team of faculty and support staff (Dr. Adam Sneed, Dr. Loretta McBride, Dr. Thomas Cole, & Vivian Stewart). This project was supported through grants from Southwest Tennessee Community College and the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR). Course resources include:a Writing and Research Handbook with practical writing instruction, links to reliable online writing resources, "remixed" content from other high-qualiity OER handbooks, and original content that helps students successfully navigate the writing resources available to them at Southwest Tennessee Community College, andfive assignment modules, each centered on one major writing assignment and supported by evaluative rubrics; low-stakes scaffolding assignments (prewritings, quizzes, and worksheets); guided peer review workshops; research guides that link to a mix of OER, OA, and ZTC sources available through library subscription services; and other materials.

This course develops language skills needed to communicate effectively in college study, in the professions,and in the business world. The course includes sentence formation, applied grammar, spelling, mechanics,and paragraph development. All course content created by Katie (Slezas) Durant Content added to OER Commons by Joanna Gray 

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.

This resource was created by Jenna McAfee, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

From Competence to Excellence

Short Description:
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.

Word Count: 38126

ISBN: 978-1-942341-21-5

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This is an online synchronous module about The Ideal Holiday. The duration of the lesson is one hour and it is designed for the Third Grade of Junior HIgh School (B1 level), in a class that consists of 24 pupils.