tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/33?page=6Open Textbook Library - Literature, Rhetoric, and Poetry Textbooks2019-11-17T17:26:23Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png7942019-11-17T17:26:23Z2024-03-04T14:18:53ZBad Ideas About Writing<img alt="Read more about Bad Ideas About Writing" title="Bad Ideas About Writing cover image" class="cover " width="576" height="864" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzUxLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--df5b0df79ff6418ffb094b9b3bec1701273ac9d4/978-0-9988820-0-0.png" />We intend this work to be less a bestiary of bad ideas about writing than an effort to name bad ideas and suggest better ones. Some of those bad ideas are quite old, such as the archetype of the inspired genius author, the five-paragraph essay, or the abuse of adjunct writing teachers. Others are much newer, such as computerized essay scoring or gamification. Some ideas, such as the supposed demise of literacy brought on by texting, are newer bad ideas but are really instances of older bad ideas about literacy always being in a cycle of decline. Yet the same core questions such as what is good writing, what makes a good writer, how should writing be assessed, and the like persist across contexts, technologies, and eras. The project has its genesis in frustration, but what emerges is hope: hope for leaving aside bad ideas and thinking about writing in more productive, inclusive, and useful ways.7742019-09-14T15:36:42Z2023-08-31T14:10:13ZEnglish Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate<img alt="Read more about English Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate" title="English Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="457" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzMxLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--fe61f5cc9792747b93d150e0dad8312039c0c5cd/978-1-948027-07-6.jpg" />This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for English 100 (first-year college composition). The content aligns to learning outcomes across all campuses in the University of Hawai'i system. It was designed, written, and edited during a three day book sprint in May, 2019.7622019-08-29T14:02:37Z2024-01-22T14:52:10ZInterpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film<img alt="Read more about Interpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film" title="Interpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzE2LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--e0ce9ec9ad4fd88f0bc3cb6fffa9070a470e07b3/978-0-9997970-0-6.png" />This book explores the role of traditional East Asian worldviews, ethical values, and common practices in the shaping of East Asian narratives in literature and film. It offers a specific method for this analysis. The interpretive goal is to arrive at interpretations that more accurately engage cultural information so that narratives are understood more closely in terms of their native cultural rather than that of the reader/interpreter. Current neuroscience related to processes of perception and the attribution of meaning form the basis for the theory of interpretation offered in the first half of the volume.7252019-06-15T16:57:41Z2024-01-22T18:57:45ZLet's Get Writing!<img alt="Read more about Let's Get Writing!" title="Let's Get Writing! cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjcwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1487cdbebd777f04e1de47ed0d78a78b08860081/0000LetGetWri.png" />This introduction is designed to exemplify how writers think about and produce text. The guiding features are the following: Every good piece of writing is an argument. Everything worth writing and reading begins with a specific question. Improving skills takes practice, feedback, and re-thinking, redoing, revising. The layout of our book implies there is a beginning, middle, and end to a writing course, but because writing is both an art and a skill, people will find their own processes for learning, improving, and using these skills. Writing processes differ because we are each looking for a workable schemata that fits our way of thinking. Try out a variety of writing processes and strategies, and find what works for you. If you are not uncomfortable on this journey, you simply are not stretching yet. Learning is prickly, awkward, and risky, so if it does not feel a bit unnerving, push harder and farther.7162019-05-28T18:23:36Z2024-01-22T14:52:23ZBecoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution<img alt="Read more about Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution" title="Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution cover image" class="cover " width="450" height="675" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjYwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--263e9ff128114b2d1aca4ac2d66640c8c20c24b7/9781940771465.jpg" />The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that is embedded in American history and has helped shaped its culture. Features: Contextualizing introductions from Pre- and Early Colonial Literature to Early American Romanticism Over 70 historical images In-depth biographies of each author Instructional Design, including Reading and Review Questions This textbook is an open Educational Resource. It can be reused, remixed, and reedited freely without seeking permission.7122019-05-20T00:33:37Z2024-01-22T14:52:33ZHow to Make Notes and Write<img alt="Read more about How to Make Notes and Write" title="How to Make Notes and Write cover image" class="cover " width="940" height="1226" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzkwNiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--fb5f47a9bff778599db5556e33fa49ac7eede046/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%202.08.12%20PM.png" />There are plenty of personal knowledge management systems out there, promising to help you take smart notes or link your thinking or build a second brain. And there are plenty of writing guides out there promising to teach you the elements of style. This book offers a simple and effective way to make effective notes on sources and your interpretations of them, then turn those thoughts into clear and compelling output.6962019-04-12T17:50:47Z2024-01-22T14:52:19ZOregon Writes Open Writing Text<img alt="Read more about Oregon Writes Open Writing Text" title="Oregon Writes Open Writing Text cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjQ1LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--81c03fb87f5330686595e3f1e55010fa7809f4ed/0000OreWriOWT.jpg" />This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon.6392018-11-16T22:37:38Z2024-02-09T15:09:48ZBritish Literature I Anthology: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century<img alt="Read more about British Literature I Anthology: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century" title="British Literature I Anthology: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century cover image" class="cover " width="450" height="675" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTc0LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--fd99ebbdce3a84d7e8085e5812f25b2b001a494b/9781940771281.jpg" />The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century. Featuring over 50 authors and full texts of their works, this anthology follows the shift of monarchic to parliamentarian rule in Britain, and the heroic epic to the more egalitarian novel as genre. Features: Original introductions to The Middle Ages; The Sixteenth Century: The Tudor Age; The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Revolution; and Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century Over 100 historical images Instructional Design, including Reading and Review Questions and Key Terms Forthcoming ancillary with open-enabled pedagogy, allowing readers to contribute to the project This textbook is an Open Access Resource. It can be reused, remixed, and reedited freely without seeking permission.6382018-11-16T22:10:15Z2024-01-22T14:52:23ZWriting and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication<img alt="Read more about Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication" title="Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication cover image" class="cover " width="450" height="675" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTczLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--48ba09a1de3b97ed9d543706ad4a72fa30a8a93e/9781940771236.jpg" />In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational writing and regarding academic writing as less pertinent in their personal lives, education, and future careers. Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking and Communication connects students with works and exercises and promotes student learning that is kairotic and constructive. Dr. Tanya Long Bennett, professor of English at the University of North Georgia, poses questions that encourage active rather than passive learning. Furthering ideas presented in Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First-Year Composition as a complimentary companion, Writing and Literature builds a new conversation covering various genres of literature and writing. Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful visual aids throughout emphasizes the importance of critical reading and analysis in producing a successful composition. Writing and Literature is a refreshing textbook that links learning, literature, and life.6252018-10-13T03:43:28Z2024-01-22T14:52:23ZBritish Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond<img alt="Read more about British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond" title="British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond cover image" class="cover " width="308" height="400" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTU3LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--00cf2d48249746b471a179877e946a6c72b46343/9781940771113.png" />The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Featuring 37 authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the literature developed within and developing through their respective eras. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that has captivated readers in the past and still holds us now. Features: Contextualizing introductions to the Romantic era; the Victorian era; and the Twentieth Century and beyond Over 90 historical images In-depth biographies of each author Instructional Design features, including Reading and Review Questions This textbook is an Open Educational Resource. It can be reused, remixed, and reedited freely without seeking permission.
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