Online OER text adapted for use in ENGL 101 - Rhetoric & Composition by Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead for Bay College.

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This textbook is meant for first year English Composition Courses. The text covers the essentials of composition and rhetoric in a recursive manner and introduces research skills.

When you are eager to get started on the coursework in your major that will prepare you for your career, getting excited about an introductory college writing course can be difficult. However, regardless of your field of study, honing your writing skills—and your reading and critical-thinking skills—gives you a more solid academic foundation.

In college, academic expectations change from what you may have experienced in high school. The quantity of work you are expected to do is increased. When instructors expect you to read pages upon pages or study hours and hours for one particular course, managing your work load can be challenging.

The quality of the work you do also changes. It is not enough to understand course material and summarize it on an exam. You will also be expected to seriously engage with new ideas by reflecting on them, analyzing them, critiquing them, making connections, drawing conclusions, or finding new ways of thinking about a given subject. Educationally, you are moving into deeper waters. A good introductory writing course will help you swim.

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

This course is the second part of the year-long sequence of college composition.  This class is part of your general education and is required for transfer.  You will continue to learn to write essays this semester, but our focus will shift from persuasive writing to analytical writing and research.  We will use literary texts primarily as the basis for that analysis.  I also focus on texts that are related to health occupations in this course.

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

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.

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.

Reading, analyzing, and writing college-level prose with emphasis on the expository; studying writing as a process; exploring different writing strategies; summarizing; editing, and critiquing; conducting research (gathering, organizing, evaluating, integrating and documenting information).

The five paper assignments this collection guide students from personal writing to academic writing, and from writing with a provided source through finding and citing general sources and scholarly sources to stake out a position.

Media-rich textbook for an introductory English course. It covers the writing process, as well as descriptive, narrative, illustration, persuasion, and causal analysis essays.

The reason why Randall Fallows wrote Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis is simple; to help give students a better understanding of how to discover, develop, and revise an analytical essay. Here is how his 5 chapter book goes about doing just that:The first two chapters focus on the nature of an analysis and what’s involved in writing an analytical essay. First, Randall shows that analysis consists of a balance of assertions (statements which present their viewpoints or launch an exploration of their concerns), examples (specific passages/scenes/events which inspire these views), explanations (statements that reveal how the examples support the assertions), and significance (statements which reveal the importance of their study to personal and/or cultural issues).After showing why each feature should be present throughout an essay, he reveals how to ”set the stage“ for producing one of their own. He first helps students to evaluate their own views on a subject and to examine how these views emerge from their own experiences, values and judgments. He, then, shows them how to research what others have said about the subject and provides suggestions for evaluating and incorporating this research into their own perspectives.Finally, Randall discusses the nature of writing, not as a linear procedure, but as a recursive process where the discovery and clarification of a concept occur simultaneously.The remaining three chapters reveal more specific advice on how to develop an analytical essay.Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis by Randall Fallows is a great text to prepare any student to write analytical essays for the argument and persuasion courses.

We put together this guidebook for instructors to use as a foundation for course and assessment design.  Appendixes include sample assignments, quizzes, and discussion prompt.  There is also a checklist for faculty to read and consider.