This course is designed to give you a broad overview of the field of literary studies.  We will read texts from different time periods, different parts of the world, and different genres.  We will learn the tools to put in our toolbox to help us analyze literature like a professional.

Survey of women in literature from ancient Greece to present with emphasis on images of female protagonists as portrayed by male and female authors.

Syllabus for ENG-243 Introduction to the Short Story class taught by Dr. Suzanne O'Brien during the Fall 2016 Semester.

This resource is intended as a model plan for linking course materials to student learning outcomes. These materials were used in planning a 15-week literature-based composition course taught within the TBR system, ENGL1020. The two attachments illustrate how the course assessments and readings are organized to fulfill statewide TBR General Education Outcomes as well as course-specific outcomes for each unit in the course. The course outline also demonstrates one possibility for sequencing course materials into a 15 week semester.The OER Commons file titled "ENGL1020 Literature Based Composition Course Common Cartridge" contains a downloadable online version of this course that can be plugged into any LMS.

The materials in this resource are intended for first-week-of-class activities in a literature-based composition course, although "The Danger of a Single Story" would be appropriate for viewing and discussion at any time during the semester. The first section of this resource explains some reasons for taking a literature-based composition course. The remaining materials provide ice-breaker and introductory activites.The "Varieties of Why," the study questions, and the discussion board activity are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. The "Danger of a Single Story" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

This resource contains a downloadable common cartridge file for ENGL1020. The entire course is a true OER remix, containing original OER materials as well as OERs adopted or adapted from other authors. The course includes the texts of readings, or links to the text. Each page in the course has a CC license on it.

This resource contains assignment details for the co-creation of a class "dictionary" of terms/phrases used by students in their speech communities. Dictionary is in quotes here because it's not a true dictionary; rather, it contains extended definition and analysis of chosen terms, as well as evidence of their use "in the wild" (i.e. in the world). This module also contains a project overview and a warm-up exercise that support the main project, as well as ideas for complimentary assignments for use in a themed course. Please see the "For instructors" page for more on framing this assignment as anti-racist. This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

In this 16-week composition course, students explore, discuss, read about, write about, and research food. More specifically, they delve into specific and varied aspects of food like food and identity, food and culture, food and the brain, food production, food marketing, and food access. In doing so, this learning community considers how and why food is the perfect avenue for learning about themselves, for recognizing and valuing their "already" banks of knowledge, and for knowing the fascinating, ever-changing, and often challenging world in which they live. 

This is a discussion board prompt that we have used for class introductions in our online ESL classes and in our in-person classes. It begins with a video on language learning strategies and asks students to introduce themselves and discuss their own strategies.

Course Description
Introduces the literature of the land which is now the United States from before European contact through the mid-nineteenth century. Revolves around written manifestations of the various interests, preoccupations, and experiences of the peoples creating and recreating American culture. Considers various literary forms, canonized (such as novel, narrative poem), popular (such as the serialized tale, verse) and unpublished (the jeremiad, Native American oratory, the slave narrative, diary). Prerequisite/concurrent: WR 121. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Identify and discuss strengths, limitations and cultural assumptions of the various literary forms practiced in America from its earliest days through the mid 1800s.
Identify and discuss the roles of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and geography played in creating early American literature.
Identify and address the issues, conflicts, preoccupations, and themes of early American literature.
Identify and discuss aesthetic aspects of American literature, including plot, setting, character, dialect, oral storytelling, diction, metaphor and allegory.
Use literary texts to examine the historical, rhetorical, and cultural contexts in which they were composed.
Use literary theory to analyze early American texts.

Readings for Writers

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“Ekphrasis: An Exploration of Poetry Inspired by Art” is a multidisciplinary Open Educational Resource that showcases ekphrastic poems in the public domain alongside the artworks that inspired them. Collections of resources about each poem and the associated artwork both complement and supplement the poems. Resources include biographical information about the poet, and the artist where applicable, as well as articles, videos, audio files, presentations, and podcasts illuminating the historical significance of each work of literature and piece of art.

Welcome to ENG 101- College Composition I!This is the first half of the yearlong composition sequence at Yavapai College.  We will be focusing in this class on persuasive writing skills. This is an 8-week class.  That means that it is fast-paced and you will have assignments due two days a week: Mondays and Thursdays. You can expect to spend around 15 hours per week on average on course work. 

This is a textbook for an Argument and Rhetorical Modes composition class at the community college level.

Introduction to academic writing and research focuses on preparing students for writing later in their college education and their post-graduation career path.

The skills learned in this course will help prepare the student for different types of situations where written and oral communication are essential.

English 101 is an introductory composition course, designed to improve your skills in expository and persuasive writing; the writing you will be doing in other courses in college and in many jobs. Sometimes this kind of writing is called transactional writing because it’s used to transact something—inform and (often) persuade a reasonably well-educated audience; conduct business; and evaluate, review, or explain a complex process, procedure, or event. The idea of this course is to develop your writing skills in conjunction with topics that interest you. This course focuses on the importance of reading and writing (more largely education in general) and how we can use those tools to help within our communities.

Thank you for visiting our Tennessee Board of Regents OER Grant English 1020: Introduction to Literature course. The pilot launched in spring 2023. This Walters State Community College composition course focuses on reading and analyzing poetry, drama, and short stories. The course has been designed with Quality Matters standards, Universal Design for Learning concepts, Growth Mindset fundamentals, and Lumen Circles concepts.     

During this class, we will be investigating the basic question: “What is literature?” What does literature mean to you? How do we define literature? What is counted as literature and why? What does literature have to do with popular culture? Does literature have value in today’s society? How does literature fit into our modern lives? Is literature important anymore? Why do we need (or not need) literature? How should literature be approached in schools? How have different concepts/ideas been portrayed in literature throughout history? What is canonical literature? Why does a lot of canonical literature reflect limited points of view? The idea of this course is to develop your writing skills in conjunction with topics related to literature that interests you. This semester we will be focusing our course on the importance of reading and writing (more largely education in general) and how we can use those tools to think and write critically about the things we read.

This course focuses on reading, analyzing, and writing college-level essays with emphasis on argument, analysis, and research. Students study writing as a process, explore different writing strategies, summarizing, editing, and critiquing. The course seeks to improve the student’s ability to understand serious and complex prose and to improve the student’s ability to write an exposition that is thoughtful and clear, including the production of a well-documented research paper.