tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?commit=Go&page=3&term=english+compositionOpen Textbook Library - Search results for "english composition"2024-03-03T23:11:43Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png16012024-03-03T23:15:46Z2024-03-03T23:15:46ZBusiness Writing For Everyone<img alt="Read more about Business Writing For Everyone" title="Business Writing For Everyone 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/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTEyMDgsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--d6c2101d53f7f5272328503a4c085935be25aee5/Open-Education_Pressbooks_Cover-Business-Writing-for-Everyone-350x453.jpg" />Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.15992024-03-03T22:54:32Z2024-03-03T22:54:32ZAction Research<img alt="Read more about Action Research" title="Action Research cover image" class="cover " width="410" height="615" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTEyMDIsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--4538ce13298b73c99b75773276d8f2cbce1e25c5/act.jpg" />Action research is a common journey for graduate students in education and other human science fields. This book attempts to meet the needs of graduate students, in-service teachers, and any other educators interested in action research and/or self-study. The chapters of this book draw on our collective experiences as educators in a variety of educational contexts, and our roles guiding educator/researchers in various settings. All of our experiences have enabled us to question and refine our own understanding of action research as a process and means for pedagogical improvement. The primary purpose of this book is to offer clear steps and practical guidance to those who intend to carry out action research for the first time. As educators begin their action research journey, we feel it is vital to pose four questions: 1) What is action research, and how is it distinct from other educational research?; 2) When is it appropriate for an educator to conduct an action research project in their context?; 3) How does an educator conduct an action research project?; 4) What does an educator do with the data once the action research project has been conducted? We have attempted to address all four questions in the chapters of this book.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="common--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.15552024-01-14T02:49:06Z2024-01-14T02:49:06ZSourcing, summarizing, and synthesizing: Skills for effective research writing <img alt="Read more about Sourcing, summarizing, and synthesizing: Skills for effective research writing " title="Sourcing, summarizing, and synthesizing: Skills for effective research writing cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="500" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA1OTMsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--5147e2c83ada25e986ef4af9f554f8f863212751/Wendy-L.-McBride3b-350x500.png" />An open educational text written by McBride.15522024-01-14T01:14:46Z2024-01-14T01:14:46ZWriting for Inquiry and Research<img alt="Read more about Writing for Inquiry and Research" title="Writing for Inquiry and Research cover image" class="cover " width="813" height="1053" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA1ODIsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--acfd6ff3293038633be77e662c43d59c19eb73e7/writingfor.jpg" />Writing for Inquiry and Research guides students through the composition process of writing a research paper. The book divides this process into four chapters that each focus on a genre connected to research writing: the annotated bibliography, proposal, literature review, and research essay. Each chapter provides significant guidance with reading, writing, and research strategies, along with significant examples and links to external resources. This book serves to help students and instructors with a writing-project-based approach, transforming the research process into an accessible series of smaller, more attainable steps for a semester-long course in research writing. Additional resources throughout the book, as well as in three appendices, allow for students and instructors to explore the many facets of the writing process together.15052023-10-11T19:22:14Z2023-10-11T19:27:33ZScholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge<img alt="Read more about Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge" title="Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge cover image" class="cover " width="587" height="759" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTgzOSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f0f675287715a1f48a59ee1bd0aea36fbff5cb9c/Screenshot%202023-10-08%20at%204.13.01%20PM.png" />The intersection of scholarly communication librarianship and open education offers a unique opportunity to expand knowledge of scholarly communication topics in both education and practice. Open resources can address the gap in teaching timely and critical scholarly communication topics—copyright in teaching and research environments, academic publishing, emerging modes of scholarship, impact measurement—while increasing access to resources and equitable participation in education and scholarly communication. Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge is an open textbook and practitioner’s guide that collects theory, practice, and case studies from nearly 80 experts in scholarly communication and open education. Divided into three parts: What is Scholarly Communication? Scholarly Communication and Open Culture Voices from the Field: Perspectives, Intersections, and Case Studies The book delves into the economic, social, policy, and legal aspects of scholarly communication as well as open access, open data, open education, and open science and infrastructure. Practitioners provide insight into the relationship between university presses and academic libraries, defining collection development as operational scholarly communication, and promotion and tenure and the challenge for open access.14832023-09-20T00:14:10Z2024-03-21T14:31:50ZElements 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="common--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="common--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="common--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.14592023-08-16T18:21:46Z2023-08-23T15:26:51ZUniversity Academic Writing for International Students: A Usage-based Approach<img alt="Read more about University Academic Writing for International Students: A Usage-based Approach" title="University Academic Writing for International Students: A Usage-based Approach cover image" class="cover " width="225" height="264" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTMwMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--91f15a46d6d5587e1dc5f227fb2c989903c12947/Moder-cover_004-225x264.png" />This resource is designed specifically to meet the academic writing needs of international students studying at universities in the United States. The materials in the book can be covered within a 14-week semester, but each chapter or section may also be used independently. Based on a series of needs analysis projects, this resource provides an overview of major rhetorical patterns of writing that are commonly used in university settings in the United States. These commonly required genres include descriptive and evaluative summaries, short essays, comparison and contrast assignments, literature reviews, descriptive reports, and proposals. The resource includes chapters that address the structure and purpose of these more common genres, including an awareness of the ways that the target audience and situation should shape the writing of each.
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