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Welcome to the Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook - designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as a practical guide for students struggling to bring their writing up to the level expected of them by their professors and instructors.
Methods of Discovery: A Guide to Research Writing
An online writing guide by Pavel Zemliansky
Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
Exploring Perspectives - A Concise Guide to Analysis
textbook to help students with the difficult task, of analyzing and to give them a better understanding of how to discover, develop, and revise an analytical essay
Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence
Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text.
Technical Report Writing Guidelines
This document specifies the recommended format to be used when submitting a formal technical report in a variety of disciplines and purposes.
English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods–Based
Introductory composition with an emphasis on essay writing in common rhetorical styles
Frameworks for Academic Writing
textbook
A textbook focusing on writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on audience analysis, writing for specific situations, document design, research processes, and visual aids.
This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student should need to successfully compose college-level work. The book covers the basics of composition and revising, including how to build a strong thesis, how to peer review a fellow student’s work, and a handy checklist for revision, before moving on to a broad overview of academic writing.
English Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate
This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for English 100 (first year college)
This book provides an in-depth look at beginner grammar terms and concepts, providing clear examples with limited technical jargon.
Cengage OpenNow Developmental English Reading & Learning Objectives
Students learn proficiency in the reading and writing connection, the writing process, writing effective paragraphs, prewriting strategies, organizing and outlining, parts of speech, sentence skills, basic research skills, creating a draft, revision strategies, proofreading and editing strategies.
online textbook
an evolving digital book created and maintained by English Department faculty at Salt Lake Community College. It exists to provide our faculty―over one hundred full- and part-time instructors―with robust, flexible, and locally produced open educational resources (OER) that can be used for teaching a variety of courses across our composition sequence.
Successful College Composition (3rd Edition)
learning materials
"This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them.
Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research
This comprehensive textbook, appropriate for an English Composition II course, both describes and explains six steps in the writing process for a first-year composition student.
Writing Unleashed: Content and Structure - 3.0
Welcome to Writing Unleashed, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as an extremely brief guide for students, jam-packed with teachers’ voices, students’ voices, and engineered for fun
Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research
Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model.
The Roadrunner's Guide to English: Home
This online book is designed to help students learn the skills they will need to do well in college-level classes. Some courses will focus on writing, some on reading, and some on a combination of the two; this book is designed to work with all of those classes.
Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy makes grammar accessible to general and specialist readers alike. This book provides an in-depth look at beginner grammar terms and concepts, providing clear examples with limited technical jargon.
88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition and Rhetoric
A collection intended to fill the gap left by publishers' textbooks which included writing samples for discussion and analysis. It exists as a Google doc so it is easy to make a copy of it and pick and choose which essays best fit your students and syllabus.