Textbook for introductory composition, focusing on writing processes, essay writing, and research writing.

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.

Course instructional materials created for ENG0002 Freshman Writing Seminar: Differences, Tufts University, Spring 2021.

The course comes with a full semester of modules incorporating reading lists, assignments, quizzes and other class activities, and teaching PowerPoints. This course is designed for virtual teaching to be delivered via a mix of synchronous and asynchronous classes and is designed to eliminate the need for students to purchase any books.

The course can be accessed as an .imscc file that can be imported into Canvas as a whole course, or as a .zip file of individual files with an html index of the course structure.

Course description: Composition course with primary emphasis designed to provide a foundation on student's own writing. Choice of topics drawing on various materials including fiction, essays, films and other visual and aural texts in an interdisciplinary manner.

The following is a lesson on the Arthur Costa's Habits of Mind, which I typically use in my one-year below transfer composition course, but this is also applicable in college prep courses.This lesson is one of a series that introduces a habit of mind (Thinking Flexibly, in this case) in order to help build students' awareness of their own habits and how to modify them through observation (examining the cartoon and description of the habit), application (applying this habit in their own lives via reflection), and creation (creating a comic) that pushes students to use humor, another habit of mind, in order to further reflect on this habit. All in all, these multiple lessons culminate into a larger assignment, The Habits of Mind Portfolio, where students analyze and reflect on how the habits they've learned throughout the semester is seen in their classroom interactions, study habits, home life, and the processes of creating their compositional works done throughout the semester. 

A freshman composition textbook used by the English Department of Virginia Western Community College (VWCC) in Roanoke, Virginia. It aligns with ENG 111, the standard first-year composition course in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). The ten chapter headings are:

1. Chapter 1 - Critical Reading
2. Chapter 2 - Rhetorical Analysis
3. Chapter 3 - Argument
4. Chapter 4 - The Writing Process
5. Chapter 5 - Rhetorical Modes
6. Chapter 6 - Finding and Using Outside Sources
7. Chapter 7 - How and Why to Cite
8. Chapter 8 - Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence?
9. Chapter 9 - Punctuation
10. Chapter 10 - Working With Words: Which Word is Right?

This book was created by the English faculty and librarians of VWCC using Creative Commons -licensed materials and original contributions.