tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/literature-rhetoric-and-poetryOpen Textbook Library - Literature, Rhetoric, and Poetry Textbooks2024-03-17T00:27:53Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png16202024-03-17T00:47:32Z2024-03-18T16:57:08ZHeritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing<img alt="Read more about Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing" title="Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTEzMjQsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--7f04a0470ce38eaf34b665ecf88fcb7d25902b85/081622_RotelProject_HeritageofChange-Ver2-Tracy-3-350x453.jpg" />In first-year writing courses, it can often feel that we practice writing and research in a vacuum. Writing is about communication, and, if we do not feel that we have an audience, then it can seem like our writing has no purpose (even though practice of any kind will help us develop these skills). Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing is a method for students to think about the social changes that were prevalent during the COVID years and remain important in their wake. Heritages of Change is a lens for thinking and writing about these ideas. Through curation and exhibition as an act of activism, students focus on a specific audience with whom they can communicate authentically about this dynamic world.15942024-03-03T22:09:46Z2024-03-03T22:09:46Z(Re)Writing Communities and Identities - Sixth Edition<img alt="Read more about (Re)Writing Communities and Identities - Sixth Edition" title="(Re)Writing Communities and Identities - Sixth Edition cover image" class="cover " width="688" height="892" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTExODcsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--a8071f1c1303df93da65905da1a84be4654e7e9d/re.jpg" />(Re)Writing Communities and Identities enables college-level students to develop their ability to compose various informative and expressive genres, including analyses, reflections, summaries, syntheses, and informative reports. While students raise their consciousness about their writing process and audience-based informative strategies, they also familiarize themselves with important social and cultural issues related to the theme of "identities and communities."15802024-01-17T03:31:07Z2024-01-17T03:31:07ZIntroduction to Literature: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and How They Shape Us<img alt="Read more about Introduction to Literature: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and How They Shape Us" title="Introduction to Literature: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and How They Shape Us cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA3OTMsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--e822a3d0cd73efa84d768c5cef0ccd31bb424f79/Serif_Gray-350x525.png" />Introduction to Literature: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and How They Shape Us introduces college freshmen to the study of literature through a focus on texts that, generally, they already know, or think they know, and how those texts aim to shape audiences to be compliant cultural objects. The book is organized around several prominent story groups, including various genres and forms, meant to promote discussion and discovery leading to students’ understanding that these texts function as cultural sculptors of readers’ principles and behaviors. Students develop the skill of analyzing texts and creating sound arguments about them through class discussions and a series of writing assignments. Ideally, they leave the course understanding how to create a sound argument and, more pointedly, that there is no such thing as “just a story.”15792024-01-16T22:53:37Z2024-01-30T13:18:13ZSurface and Subtext: Literature, Research, Writing - Third Edition<img alt="Read more about Surface and Subtext: Literature, Research, Writing - Third Edition" title="Surface and Subtext: Literature, Research, Writing - Third Edition cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="994" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA3OTAsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--23e8b3001760ae762f2b51d992ef37b8190d8cc0/203-OER-Cover-768x994.jpg" />Open-educational resource textbook created by the TAMU English 203 OER Committee.14832023-09-20T00:14:10Z2023-09-28T15:47:21ZElements of Creative Writing<img alt="Read more about Elements of Creative Writing" title="Elements of Creative Writing cover image" class="cover " width="495" height="640" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTQ3MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8904451a5d1055a26156d3e77f834496957ad344/medium-7e48b56f47456a721c12a1edbc5c39b5.jpg" />This free and open access textbook introduces new writers to some basic elements of the craft of creative writing in the genres of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The authors—Rachel Morgan, Jeremy Schraffenberger, and Grant Tracey—are editors of the North American Review, the oldest and one of the most well-regarded literary magazines in the United States. They’ve selected nearly all of the readings and examples (more than 60) from writing that has appeared in NAR pages over the years. Because they had a hand in publishing these pieces originally, their perspective as editors permeates this book. As such, they hope that even seasoned writers might gain insight into the aesthetics of the magazine as they analyze and discuss some reasons this work is so remarkable—and therefore teachable. This project was supported by NAR staff and funded via the UNI Textbook Equity Mini-Grant Program.14762023-08-23T02:53:49Z2023-10-10T17:33:50ZThinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences<img alt="Read more about Thinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences" title="Thinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences cover image" class="cover " width="1707" height="2560" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTQyMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a6d150fa54ad51840609590895e976eb87a9951c/cover-scaled.jpg" />Thinking Rhetorically: Writing in Professional and Public Contexts is dedicated to introducing students to a lifelong commitment of engaging with these problems that matter. As an academic discipline, Writing Studies’ contribution to engaging with problems can be applied to all areas of study and to all types of problems because we focus on the way language itself—discourse—is created and exchanged in the service of engaging problems. Writing Studies deepens students’ rhetorical awareness of how the ongoing conversations between groups of people shape and express the problems that matter.14602023-08-22T13:43:46Z2023-08-22T19:11:33ZWriting Spaces at Oklahoma State University<img alt="Read more about Writing Spaces at Oklahoma State University" title="Writing Spaces at Oklahoma State University cover image" class="cover " width="225" height="321" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTMxMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b13a1b3f7df63fb9ceaf84b96be7e9be306cb842/Writing%20Spaces%20at%20Oklahoma%20State%20University.jpg" />This resource focuses on the various processes involved in researching answers to various inquiry questions and building effective arguments within and outside academic contexts. The curriculum takes students through the processes of listening/summarizing, asking questions, characterizing scholarly debates, and entering those debates in order to meaningfully contribute to ongoing conversations.14512023-08-07T02:43:26Z2023-08-30T03:14:45ZWeb Writing - First Edition<img alt="Read more about Web Writing - First Edition" title="Web Writing - First Edition cover image" class="cover " width="765" height="1024" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTI1MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ca4b149dda4922234459a80ac6e628a6326968fe/Pfannenstiel_WebWriting_Cover-765x1024.png" />Web Writing (2023) by Dr. A Nicole Pfannenstiel is designed to provide a practical, rhetorical approach to web writing and content strategy analysis for students completing advanced writing courses. The eTextbook uses the rhetorical situation and key concepts to help readers/students understand how to write within specific web spaces for specific audiences drawing on appropriate discourse community conventions. It includes a chapter devoted to the rhetorical situation and key concepts to help students analyze and build their understanding of existing communication. It also includes a chapter outlining approaches to content strategy analysis, using the rhetorical situation and key concepts to understand the rich public data provided through social media accounts to support learners understanding effective web writing. The content analysis overview helps students build skills for analyzing writing, for collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative social media data, and for drawing conclusions about content strategy best practices.14192023-05-02T22:43:05Z2024-03-17T01:20:37ZReading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students<img alt="Read more about Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students" title="Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="994" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjU1NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--41a1fdb16cfaf863010ae85bd9778f893732ff24/081622_RotelProject_Composition-Lynne-11024_1-768x994.jpg" />This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.14142023-04-29T23:44:09Z2024-02-23T19:21:18ZIntroduction to College Research<img alt="Read more about Introduction to College Research" title="Introduction to College Research cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="1002" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjUwMywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e2a627ce260ee8e0a9353897ac62d57d44868692/OER-CollegeResearch-Cover-HappyNewYear-scaled-1-768x1002.jpg" />This book acknowledges our changing information landscape, covering key concepts in information literacy to support a research process with intention. We start by critically examining the online environment many of us already engage with every day, looking at algorithms, the attention economy, information disorder and cynicism, information hygiene, and fact-checking. We then move into an exploration of information source types, meaningful research topics, keyword choices, effective search strategies, library resources, Web search considerations, the ethical use of information, and citation.
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