Students compose and notate short rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 meters across multiple class periods.

This class explores sound and what can be done with it. Sources are recorded from students’ surroundings - sampled and electronically generated (both analog and digital). Assignments include composing with the sampled sounds, feedback, and noise, using digital signal processing (DSP), convolution, algorithms, and simple mixing. The class focuses on sonic and compositional aspects rather than technology, math, or acoustics, though these are examined in varying detail. Students complete weekly composition and listening assignments; material for the latter is drawn from sound art, experimental electronica, conventional and non-conventional classical electronic works, popular music, and previous students’ compositions.

Composition 2: Research and Writing was created with the intention of providing a free, comprehensive Composition 2 textbook to the students of Connors State College in Oklahoma. This textbook is a compilation of several OER textbooks and resources with edits, revisions, and additions provided by Brittany Seay. This textbook focuses on the ins and outs of academic writing and research. It looks at the early stages of research from generating ideas and key term searches to creating projects that synthesize the information found from sources. This textbook also discusses academic writing with a particular focus on research writing.

Chapter 1 covers the idea behind research and why it is important
Chapter 2 covers finding and reading academic sources
Chapter 3 covers using the information found in academic sources
Chapter 4 covers putting together an academic research argument

An introductory course that focuses on sentence and paragraph structure, title development, and writing by method, including narration, description, process, compare/contrast, cause and effect, persuasion, and more. A solid overview of citations and sources, as well as thesis statements and conclusions, is also provided. 

This course incorporates original OER materials with readings from the novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien, a gripping and compassionate account of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War and readings from the textbook Composition II from Lumen Learning. The course will challenge students in their reading and writing skills while providing them with a historical and cultural context to better understand war, peace, and the human condition.

This workbook is designed for college-level freshman composition courses. It includes units and assignments on reflective writing, punctuation and mechanics, sentence combining, MLA and APA documentation style, the writing process, and research writing.

English Composition I
Covers a range of rhetorical situations and genres of writing, centering on argument. Students learn to read and analyze others’ writing and then respond with their own views, showing an awareness of their purpose and audience. The class culminates in a short argumentative research paper.

English Composition II
Focuses on scholarly investigation and the proper use of sources and documentation. Major emphasis is on writing research papers that are acceptable by APA standards.

Concise Constructs is the perfect composition textbook for college ESL students. This book was designed by students for students! Its easy to understand vocabulary, informal tone, and concise nature will ensure students actually read the book and learn from the content. Additionally, this textbook is accompanied by a complete curriculum guide with resources for educators.

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes computer scientist Jaron Lanier. Lanier talks about his work in computer science and his work as a composer and student of music. He reflects on the implications of technology for culture and offers his assessment of how far the revolution in communications will go. (53 min)

Music educator Michelle Lewis teaches her students how to create vodcast music lessons. Lewis hopes that their vodcast YouTube channel will help students in schools without a music program learn music concepts.

Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit." The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by "a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field."

I use this assignment as my first writing prompt for my advanced composition and critical thinking course. I want to get them thinking about how they view the world and what has influenced that view.

This book explores the essential elements, processes. and techniques of successful academic writing. Focusing on significant developments in technology, learning styles, and cultural competencies, readers are introduced to the various critical stages of the essay writing process; with relevant links, exercises, and downloadable handouts.

A book about writing (and reading) nonfiction with children in the elementary grades.

This course introduces students to the art and formal ideologies of contemporary dance. We explore the aesthetic and technical underpinnings of contemporary dance composition. Basic compositional techniques are discussed and practiced, with an emphasis on principles such as weight, space, time, effort, and shape. Principles of musicality are considered and developed by each student. Working with each other as the raw material of the dance, students develop short compositions that reveal their understanding of basic techniques. Hopefully, students come to understand a range of compositional possibilities available to artists who work with the medium of the human body.

The goal of this class is practical: to interrogate, make explicit, and thus to develop the powerful musical intuitions that are at work as you make sense of the music all around you. Reflecting, we will ask how this knowledge develops in ordinary and extraordinary ways.

Composing expository and argumentative essays for specific audiences. Emphasis on the processes of writing, reading and critical thinking. Introduction to research and documentation.

Composing expository and argumentative essays for specific audiences. Emphasis on the processes of writing, reading and critical thinking. Introduction to research and documentation.Course Content:Essay contentOrganization and structurePurpose and audienceLanguageGrammar and punctuationResearchLearning Outcomes: Write thesis statements. (1)Select content and details. (1)Use organizational strategies. (2)Apply reasoned development strategies reflecting knowledge about a topic. (2)Use persuasive reasoning. (3)Select and apply voice. (3)Apply sentence structure strategies. (4)Incorporate purposeful, varied and appropriate vocabulary. (4)Apply conventions of standard written English. (5)Locate and evaluate information. (6)Analyze and interpret information. (6)Integrate and document information. (6)Required Assessment:A minimum of 4,500 words of student writing with 2,700 of this formal writing, reviewed by the instructor.Required Assessment:A minimum of 4,500 words of student writing with 2,700 of this formal writing, reviewed by the instructor

Composing expository and argumentative essays for specific audiences. Emphasis on the processes of writing, reading and critical thinking. Introduction to research and documentation.Course Content:Essay contentOrganization and structurePurpose and audienceLanguageGrammar and punctuationResearchLearning Outcomes: Write thesis statements. (1)Select content and details. (1)Use organizational strategies. (2)Apply reasoned development strategies reflecting knowledge about a topic. (2)Use persuasive reasoning. (3)Select and apply voice. (3)Apply sentence structure strategies. (4)Incorporate purposeful, varied and appropriate vocabulary. (4)Apply conventions of standard written English. (5)Locate and evaluate information. (6)Analyze and interpret information. (6)Integrate and document information. (6)Required Assessment:A minimum of 4,500 words of student writing with 2,700 of this formal writing, reviewed by the instructor.Required Assessment:A minimum of 4,500 words of student writing with 2,700 of this formal writing, reviewed by the instructor