This 8-minute "whiteboard" illustration style video covers 4 major incentives for students to think about workplace writing and communication. It addresses how writing impacts personal credibility, how writing is an overlooked but important “currency” of business, how writing shows critical thinking, and how writing magnifies workplace attributes. Use it to jump start thinking on how standard academic writing differs greatly from workplace writing, and why business communication is a critical skill.This resource was made possible by the Texas Tech University Libraries Open Educational Resources Adoption Incentive Grant. For further information about the OER grant, see the TTU Libraries site. 

A breif guideline on a Problem based 5 part thesis. Outlines the synthesis of a real-world problem based argument that aims to impart a solution with relevance and urgency.   

The Framework, re-framed in "plain English" for students and faculty. The goal was to make the ACRL Framework easier to understand (many people don't use iterative in everyday conversation, for example) and to make the connection between information literacy and institutional mission/vision and learning outcomes clear.

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This resource includes traditional writing prompts as well as prompts and assignments that utilize AI-generated text. It covers the fields of Creative Writing, Composition, and Business and Technical Writing. 

This quiz tests students' knowledge of key aspects of APA style (7th edition).

This worksheet helps students practice creating and identifying correct citations in APA style (7th edition).

A basic guide to the most common uses of APA style, including color-coded example citations.

Reflective writing is be a valuable communication tool between instructor and student that fosters critical thinking. When combined with a better model of the scientific method (the AMI) than the "standard" linear model, learners gain a better understanding of the process of science.

This assignment was developed for an undergraduate course in communication sciences and disorders. 

This OER textbook has been developed to support English Composition and Rhetoric courses at rural Arizona community colleges.

This interactive PDF explains the four types of writing and their applications, and provides some free examples.

When working on longer or more important writing projects, writers often face many of the same issues commonly discussed in connection with writer’s block: information, order, insight, and need. These, combined with the pressures we feel about now having to write texts that are not only longer but also higher stakes projects, often make projects seem overly intimidating. From the very beginning of your work on a thesis, article, dissertation, or book project, you must take steps to minimize the issues that would slow you down or prevent you from finishing.

This worksheet will help you reflect and self-assess a personal statement draft to consider opportunities for revision.

Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of and antidotes to major myths in writing instruction. This collection is published in whole by the Digital Publishing Institute at WVU Libraries and in part by Inside Higher Ed.

This course focuses on works that caught the popular imagination in the past or present. It emphasizes texts that are related by genre, theme or style. The books studied in this course vary from semester to semester, and the topic for Fall 2006 is Detective Fictions.

These questions are meant to help you brainstorm before drafting your personal statement.Importantly, a personal statement needs to tell a clear, concise personal story. You do not just want to transfer your response to these questions to a document as a first draft. Rather, you will need to refine and explore these questions in preparation of developing a first draft. At the bottom of this document are suggestions for seeking out feedback on your drafts.

This fillable Google Doc helps you break down any prompt into its main tasks and requirements, list helpful resources and readings, and brainstorm ideas for answering the prompt. Make a copy and use it as many times as you need!

This OER textbook is designed for college-level business writing courses. It covers basics of writing professional, clear, concise, evidence driven, and persuasive messages. The text includes how-to information, message design advice, communication tips, and "Your Turn" exercises.

This book is organized into 9 parts, each based on a larger topic that students have chosen to study and write research papers on. Each part contains several short student papers, around 2,000 words each, exploring a different aspect of COVID-19 that relates to science, technology and society. Students were asked to examine their topics through research, gathering primary and secondary sources, both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed to support their arguments. They were also encouraged to apply several theories often used in studies of Science, Technology and Society, including Actor-Network Theory, Path Dependence, Social Construction and Tragedy of the Commons to their topics. Students were given an introduction to these theories in the course, and they were asked to discuss how one or more of the theories applies and helps to better understand their paper topics. Some students also engaged in additional research on these theories to explore their applicability. Taking advantage of the e-book format, student also used Creative Commons and public domain images, which are not restricted by copyright limitations to help illustrate their points. In addition to their individual chapters, students also worked together to write introductions for different parts of the book. These part introductions contain a brief summary by the students on why they chose to write on a specific larger topic and how their individual chapters relate to the topic. They also give students an opportunity to reflect on how COVID-19 and its impact on the larger topic they are writing about has affected their personal lives.