Basic Concepts For Writing an Essay: sahgalp@laccd.edu
Overview
Humanities: English 101- Reading & Composition
I curated:
Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence - Open Textbook ...
Since I teach English Composition, and it is a ZTC, I curated this OER and mixed it with other available OER and my own study guides that I created and tweaked over many years of teaching composition.
I am able to mark the book with the full TASL attribution; The book can be read in different formats: PDF, EPUB, or online to student needs.
Author: Amy Guptill Brockport, Publisher Open SUNY
This license makes it conducive for adapting and mixing:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Engaging English 101 Students
Humanities: English 101- Reading & Composition
Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence - Open Textbook ...
Since I teach English Composition, and it is a ZTC, I picked this OER:
I am able to mark the book with the full TASL attribution; The book can be read in different formats: PDF, EPUB, or online to student needs.
Author: Amy Guptill Brockport, Publisher Open SUNY
This license makes it conducive for adapting and mixing:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
How I will curate the OER - This book is a good resource for beginning writers. I would mix this resource with the following OER, to achieve the SLO of: Writing College Level Essays that are thesis driven, I worked backwards. I used the rubric on Canvas to explain how the essay would be graded. I used this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uuIUkFvmotPGxbI4zqFbIlNwDw0uHEkuioLi7Kviitg/edit#gid=0
Then added to information in the textbook with a lesson on Writing a Thesis Statement from the Academic Resource Center, at LAVC. I added a guide that I had put together and used over the years that explains how to summarize a piece of writing or a video using the 5Ws: What is the reading about? The time and place--Where and When—the setting of the information and Why is the writer presenting it? Finally, How well does it support the thesis?
I have also created a structured method of embedding quotes in an essay, giving in text credit to the source being used, without compromising the flow of the essay.
My guide includes the appropriate point of view and tense required for the essay, tips for proof reading and a copy of the MLA format procured from our ARC, linked to purdue online writing lab.
Unc.edu is another great resource and their writing lab is an OER. I provide the link in my ZTC classes. Their explanation of ‘How to write and tweak a thesis’ is easy to follow for freshman.
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To complement the textbook license, I would license my own work as: This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0