ENGL 140 online OER course. Many texts in this class are available as OER: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Genesis, the Book of Job, Analects by Confucius, Ancient Egyptian Love Poetry, the Daodejing by Lao-tzu,

This semester, we will read writing about travel and place from Columbus’s Diario through the present. Travel writing has some special features that will shape both the content and the work for this subject: reflecting the point of view, narrative choices, and style of individuals, it also responds to the pressures of a real world only marginally under their control. Whether the traveler is a curious tourist, the leader of a national expedition, or a starving, half-naked survivor, the encounter with place shapes what travel writing can be. Accordingly, we will pay attention not only to narrative texts but to maps, objects, archives, and facts of various kinds.
Our materials are organized around three regions: North America, Africa and the Atlantic world, the Arctic and Antarctic. The historical scope of these readings will allow us to know something not only about the experiences and writing strategies of individual travelers, but about the progressive integration of these regions into global economic, political, and knowledge systems. Whether we are looking at the production of an Inuit film for global audiences, or the mapping of a route across the North American continent by water, these materials do more than simply record or narrate experiences and territories: they also participate in shaping the world and what it means to us.
Authors will include Olaudah Equiano, Caryl Philips, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Jamaica Kincaid, William Least Heat Moon, Louise Erdrich, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.
Expeditions will include those of Lewis and Clark (North America), Henry Morton Stanley (Africa), Ernest Shackleton and Robert F. Scott (Antarctica).

Explore the traditions and conventions of haiku and compare this classic form of Japanese poetry to a related genre of Japanese visual art.

In this activity, students create a book, newspaper or other published work to communicate what they have learned about engineering and the environment.

The goal of this exercise is to have a learner watch an investigative interview, record their own case notes and then practice using those notes to complete the allegation conclusion and assessment sections of an investigation narrative.  To achieve this, a video of an investigative interview is taken from a vignette and a partially completed investigation narrative template is provided. 

This activity can be completed indpendently by a learner and submitted to an instructor or another classmate upon completion. In the activity, a learner views a video vignette showing an investigative interview with the biological mother of a child who has been abused by the Mother's boyfriend.  Following the video, learners are asked to complete a case notes template, recording a couple paragraphs of their own notes.  Learners are asked to also submit an additional self-reflection paragraph explaining what decisions the learner made regarding what was and was not included in their notes and why.  Constructive feedback can be offered to help improve learners' use of fact and evidence or to edit for conciseness as well.  

Your course-level objectives:
- 1A - Demonstrate an ability to (1A) determine the purpose, (1B) analyze and outline rhetorical structures and textual features, and
- 1C - Demonstrate an ability to identify inferred meanings in a broad range of advanced academic and everyday texts.
- 2 - Identify, select, and employ SQ3R / KWL, or other frameworks
- 3 - Acquire and demonstrate an ability to use words and phrases found in advanced level academic and everyday life texts.
- 4 - Summarize, paraphrase, and respond to advanced level academic and everyday texts in ways that support the development of stronger overall academic skill.

This course is designed around analyzing intimate bonds and the permutations of heartbreak. Through the analysis of a set of relations in novels, short stories, poetry, music videos, and live theatre, we will consider the transformative states of the lover’s (un)becoming, for how consciousness is constituted by bonds yet how the lover transcends crisis in the moment of the epiphany that surfaces in love’s very failure; indeed, love itself becomes narcissistically yet optimistically illuminating, even in its oppressive hold.

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Writing Activities, a page of activities to address important writing skills and strategies.

This is an explanimation video that walks students through the key areas of writing an executive summary.

A list of learning centers suggested materials and sample skills and concepts for writing

Writing Commons is an encyclopedia for writers, speakers, and knowledge workers. Since 2008, we have published original articles on topics of interest to writers, speakers, and knowledge workers. Over 11 million students and teachers worldwide use Writing Commons for help with their college-level coursework in academic, workplace writing, STEM writing. Writing Commons serves as the required writing textbook for students in composition, professional and technical writing, workplace writing, business writing, fiction writing, and poetry writing courses. Beyond the classroom, Writing Commons is the go to source for professionals in workplace writing settings.

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 lesson, students write a draft to plan for a brief expository composition.

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.

This is an open-educational-resource (OER) composition textbook developed at McLennan Community College.  Its content is provided freely for use to writing instructors and students.  While this book has been designed for use in college-level, freshman-composition courses, if it serves your purposes in any other level of instruction, we are happy to share it with you.

This a collection of original writing and OER materals designed to aid learners in better understanding professional communication.