This project was funded by the MHCC Foundation OER Grant Program and published by MHCC Library Press. MARC record available at the end of the book.

This course introduces students to the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing.

Three levels of interactive grammar and reading activities for beginning and intermediate students of ESOL

Short Description:
This book contains three levels of interactive grammar lessons and reading activities for beginning students of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). The grammar section includes a select set of YouTube videos, and the three original readers include short picture or chapter stories. Each lesson is accompanied by self-correcting exercises.

Long Description:
This book contains three levels of interactive grammar lessons and reading activities for beginning students of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). The grammar section includes a select set of YouTube videos, and the three original readers include short picture or chapter stories. Each lesson is accompanied by self-correcting exercises.

Word Count: 6284

ISBN: 978-1-63635-024-0

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Learn how to create everything from work instructions to user manuals. We’ll help you avoid the most common pitfalls of tech writing, from poor planning to outdated publishing. This manual is written by the CEO and Lead Writer at IFixit, an openly-licensed repair manual. IFixit works with technical writing classes to add to IFixit content while allowing students to engage in real-life technical writing projects.

Word Count: 160210

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This is a complete ENG 101A course (Freshman Composition with Writing Skills Review) that adds grammar instruction, tutoring visits, and instructor conferencing to assist students. The course uses The Worry Free Writer OER textbook. This course has been QM certified. The course is derived from Karen's ENG 101 course.

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

Extensive critical reading and writing about texts. Emphasis on fluency in critical writing. Includes research skills and writing a critical, documented essay.

Continues development of skills and concepts taught in ENG 101. Emphasizes research and critical reading and writing.

Continues development of skills and concepts taught in ENG 101. Emphasizes research and critical reading and writing.

A Complete Online Course

Short Description:
An Introduction to Poetry, A Complete Online Course, is designed for a first college course in poetry. Assuming no prior knowledge of poetry, it guides the student through the most essential aspects of poetics, the tricky question of interpretation, and the importance of form. It also outlines, in several chapters, the changing ways that poetry has presented itself from the late 16th century through the present.

Long Description:
An Introduction to Poetry is an abridged, excerpted guide for a first college course in poetry. Assuming a student whose understanding of the subject has not made it beyond prejudices about “openness of interpretation,” “expression of feeling,” and “emptiness of meaning,” this text uses written lectures to guide the student through the tricky question of interpretation, the understanding and use of poetic elements, the valley of forms and non-forms and finally into the use of poetry for protest, resistance and empowerment. Each chapter is designed to occupy one week of a full-semester course.

Word Count: 18727

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These resources provide ENG 109 instructors with OER content related to the course's learning outcomes as well as descriptions of culminating assignments within which these learning outcomes can be assessed. 

This open textbook is created to accompany the course ENGL114 - Critical Reading and Response at Bay Path University.

This open textbook is created to accompany the course ENGL124 - Research and Writing in the University at Bay Path University.

This open textbook is created to accompany the course ENGL134 - Literary Genres at Bay Path University.

English 151 builds on English 111 to develop
students’ critical reading, analytical writing, and academic research skills. The course emphasizes close, critical reading of a variety of texts and analytical writing about these texts. Significant attention is given to the development of academic research methods and skills.

Study of important works concerning theories of invention, arrangement, style, and delivery. Includes development of the written voice to enhance all aspects of communication to carry out work and persuasion. Also includes the application of rhetorical theories to a variety of material, print, and digital forms of communication.

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.

This course covers selected works in American literature from its beginnings to 1865. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze and interpret literary works in their historical and cultural contexts.