Open Educational Resources and English

Recommended or commonly used textbooks

• EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers (Abrams, 2018); EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers (Abrams, 2018) – LibreTexts  (CC BY-NC, except where otherwise noted)
• How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College (Mills et al.,  ASCCC OERI, 2022) – LibreTexts; How Arguments Work Ancillaries – Canvas Commons. CC BY-NC.
• Let’s Get Writing (Browning et al., 2018); Let’s Get Writing (Browning et al., 2018) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA) Available in Canvas Commons.
• Successful College Composition (Crowther, et al., 2016; Successful College Composition (Crowther, et al., 2016 – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA) This text is a transformation of Writing for Success.
• The Word on College Reading and Writing (Babin, 2017); The Word on College Reading and Writing (Babin, 2017) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC)
• Writing as Inquiry (Clevenger and Rust, 2022) (CC BY-NC-SA except where otherwise noted)
• Writing For Success (2015) ; Writing For Success (2015) – LibreTexts; Writing for Success (Affordable Learning Georgia adaptation, 2019) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA) Writing for Success – Canvas Commons
• Writing Guide with Handbook (OpenStax, Bachelor-Robinson, 2022); Writing Guide with Handbook (2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY)

Other textbooks that fully cover the C-ID English 100 descriptor (the quality or the popularity of these resources has not been assessed)

• A Dam Good Argument (Delf et al, 2022); A Dam Good Argument (Delf et al, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY except where otherwise noted)
• A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing (Gagich and Zickel, Cleveland State University, 2017) A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing – LibreTexts  (CC BY-NC-SA)
• The antitextbook of writing (Priebe, 2021); The antitextbook of writing (Priebe, 2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Basic Reading and Writing (Lumen Learning with Cerritos College) Basic Reading and Writing – LibreTexts. Varied licenses – terms of each page must be reviewed.
• Claim Your Voice in First Year Composition, Vol. 2 (Kiefer and Rock, 2021) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Composition 1: Introduction to Academic Writing (Seay, 2022) (CC BY-NC-SA except where otherwise noted)
• Composition in Cultural Contexts: Writing Within and Across Modalities and Subjectivities (Gurevich, 2021) (CC BY except where otherwise noted)
• ENGL 1302 Composition II Research and Analysis (Mathison et al, 2021) (CC BY-NC)
• English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods (Lumen Learning); English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods (Lumen Learning) – LibreTexts. English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods (Lumen Learning) – Canvas Commons (log in to Canvas first for the link to work). Varied licenses – terms of each page must be reviewed.
• English Composition II (Lumen Learning); English Composition II (Lumen Learning) – LibreTexts Varied licenses – terms of each page must be reviewed.
• English 101 Rhetoric and Composition (Kinonen et al, Bay College, 2017) Adapted from Writing for Success. (CC BY)
• English Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate (Inoshita et al, University of Hawaii Manoa, 2019) LibreTexts version. (CC BY)
• Frameworks for Academic Writing (Poulter, 2013) LibreTexts version. (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Fresh English: A Guide to First-Year College Composition, Grammar, and Rhetoric (Davis, 2016) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research (Pantuso, et al, Texas A&M, 2019) All contributing works are copyrighted and CC-licensed by their respective authors. Informed Arguments is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.”
• Introduction to College Writing at CNM (Schaller and Wolf, 2022) (CC BY-SA except where otherwise noted)
• Oregon Writes Open Writing Text (Kepka, OpenOregon, 2018) Oregon Writes – LibreTexts (CC BY)
• Pacific Writing! (Sonstroem, 2022) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Reading and Writing Your World: Textbook and Reader for Composition (Cummins and Goorjian, 2022) (CC BY)
• The Art of Academic Writing (Peterson, 2021) (CC BY-NC)
• The RoughWriter’s Guide: A Handbook for Writing Well (Palmer and Van Lieu, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• The Worry Free Writer (Palmer, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research (Tucker and Chafe, Ryerson University, 2018) Multi-media including video and assignments. (CC BY)
• Write What Matters: A modular open educational resource to support first-year writing courses in Idaho (Long et al., MSL Academic Endeavors, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence (Guptill, 2016); Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence (Guptill, 2016) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Writing Guide with Handbook (OpenStax, Bachelor-Robinson, 2022); Writing Guide with Handbook (2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
• Writing, Reading, and College Success: A First-Year Composition Course for All Learners​ (Kashyap and Dyquisto, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC)
• Writing Unleashed (Priebe et al, North Dakota University System, 2020); Writing Unleashed – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• You, Writing: A Guide to College Composition (Glynn, 2018) You, Writing..- LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)

Resources that cover parts of the C-ID ENGL 100 descriptor or treat topics individually rather than as part of a cohesive textbook approach

• See also the Style Guides section and the Readings section on the main Open Educational Resources and English page.
• A Writer’s Guide to Mindful Reading (Carillo, 2017)  (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made)
• Bad Ideas about Writing (2017) (CC BY) A collection of articles intended to stimulate questioning of common beliefs about writing.
• Composition 2: Research and Writing (Seay, 2022) (CC BY-NC-SA except where otherwise noted)
• Critical Thinking in Academic Research (Gruwell and Ewing, 2022) (CC BY except where otherwise noted)
• Excelsior Online Writing Lab (CC BY) Includes interactive exercises.
• Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis (Fallows, 2011); Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis (Fallows, 2011)  – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA) Designed to help students write and revise an analytical essay. (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with Sources (Duke et al., UIC Global Engagement, 2021) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Methods of Discovery (Zemliansky, 2014) (CC BY-NC-SA) Research focused, advanced.
• MLA 8th Edition Instructional Videos (CC BY) “8 videos…explain how to properly cite the most common sources using the 2016 MLA 8th edition. The videos teach students how to do their own documentation and citation, rather than encourage them to use citation generators.”
• Off the Shelf: A Digital Anthology of Classic and Contemporary Short Stories (Stephen Logan and Heather Thompson-Gillis) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Open English @ SLCC: Texts on Writing, Language, and Literacy (SLCC English Department, 2016) (CC BY-NC)
• Rhetoric and Composition/Rhetorical Analysis (Wikibooks, 2021)  (CC BY-SA) Brief treatments of a range of rhetorical concepts.
• Rhetorical Analysis in the Real World (Ryder) (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made) A frequently cited personal essay demonstrating the value of rhetorical analysis.
• The Argumentative Research Project: A Step by Step Course (Layton, 2016)  (CC BY-SA)
• The Simple Math of Writing Well (Harrop) ; The Simple Math of Writing Well (Harrop) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Auburn University Writing Resources (2018) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Who Teaches Writing? (Daniel et al., Oklahoma State University 2022) (CC BY except where otherwise noted)
• Why Study Rhetoric? or, What Freestyle Rap Teaches Us about Writing (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made)
• Writing LCC: An Anthology of Student Writing Collected at Lansing Community College Lansing, Michigan (Warnke, 2021) (CC BY)
• Writing Is Easier Than You Think: A Composition Textbook with 100+ Model Essays (Webb, 2020) (CC BY)
• Writing Commons (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made) Writing Commons is “an encyclopedia for writers, rhetors, knowledge workers, symbol analysts…800+ original articles on subjects of interest to producers and consumers of texts in home, school and workplace settings”.
• Writing Spaces ; Writing Spaces Volume I – LibreTexts ; Writing Spaces Volume II – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made) Writing Spaces is “an open textbook project for college-level writing studies courses. Each volume in the Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing series contains peer-reviewed collections of essays about writing—all composed by teachers for students”.
• Writing to Learn: A Course Design and Educational Resources (Keston, 2022) (CC BY-NC)

• Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy (Brehe, 2019 (CC BY-SA)
• Conventions 101: A Functional Approach to Teaching (And Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation (Ramsey, OpenOregon 2016) (CC BY-NC)
• Grammar Essentials (Excelsior Online Writing Lab, 2022); Grammar Essentials (Excelsior Online Writing Lab, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
• Grammar Refresher (Excelsior Online Writing Lab, 2022) (CC BY)
• Guide to Writing (Lumen Learning) ; Guide to Writing (Lumen Learning) – LibreTexts. This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words ‘Licenses and Attributions’ at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.
• Pocket Style Guide (Frost and Samra) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Style for Students Online (Schall, 2016)  (Schall, 2016) (CC BY-NC-SA, “except where otherwise noted”)
• Writing Commons – Style (2020) (2020) (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made)
• Style in Writing, Reading, and College Success (Kashyap and Dyquisto, 2020) – LibreTexts and Grammar Writing, Reading, and College Success (Kashyap and Dyquisto, 2020) CC BY-NC.

• 88 Open Essays (Wangler and Ulrich, 2020)  ; (Wangler and Ulrich, 2020) – LibreTexts (licenses vary)
• Digital Public Library of America. Includes public domain and copyrighted materials.
• EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers (Abrams, 2018) ; EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers (Abrams, 2018) – LibreTexts  (CC BY-NC, except where otherwise noted)
• Internet Archive. Includes public domain and copyrighted materials.
• My Slipper Floated Away: New American Memoirs (Blau, 2020)  (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made)
• Off the Shelf: A Digital Anthology of Classic and Contemporary Short Stories (Stephen Logan and Heather Thompson-Gillis) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks that reside in the public domain and copyrighted titles, for which the copyright holder has given permission for unlimited non-commercial worldwide use. Early Modern Literature through Early 20th Century offerings.
• The Composition Reading Bank (Brooks-Pannell et al., 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA except where otherwise noted)
• The Open Anthology of Literature in English (O’Brien) (CC BY-NC)
• Reading Anthology: Three Levels (Lumen) This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.
• Sci-fi and Fantasy Anthology (Hoppe, 2019);  Sci-fi and Fantasy Anthology – LibreTexts (Hoppe, 2019) (CC BY)
• The Conversation.com (CC BY- ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made) A collection of essays and articles on current issues, written by academics. The slogan is “Academic rigor, journalistic flair.”
• Thematic Reading Anthology (Lumen Learning); Thematic Reading Anthology (Lumen Learning) – LibreTexts This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.
• Towards an Open Anthology of Poetry (Mount, 2017)  (Mount, 2017) (CC BY-NC)
• Women’s Autobiography (Dixon-Kolar, 2022) (CC BY except where otherwise noted)
• Writing LCC: An Anthology of Student Writing Collected at Lansing Community College Lansing, Michigan (Warnke, 2021) (CC BY)
• Writing Unleashed Reader (Priebe) (CC BY-NC-SA)

• “Creating and Using Open Educational Resources (OER) in Reading and Writing Classes,” by Christine Hutchins of Hostos Community College, writing in NCTE journal Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 47, No. 3, March  2020. All rights reserved.
• Case Study: Expanding the Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (Robbins) (CC BY)

Textbooks

• A Dam Good Argument (Delf et al, 2022); A Dam Good Argument (Delf et al, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY except where otherwise noted)
• Arguments in Context: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (Robinson, 2021); Arguments in Context: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (Robinson, 2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC).
• Claim Your Voice in First Year Composition, Vol. 2 (Kiefer and Rock, 2021) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College (Mills et al.,  ASCCC OERI, 2022) – LibreTexts; How Arguments Work Ancillaries – Canvas Commons. CC BY-NC.
• Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research (Pantuso et al., 2019)  (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Reading, Writing and Evaluating Argument (Werry, 2019) – Word (CC BY-NC-SA) OER textbook for first year writing. Produced by the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at SDSU (piloted fall 2019). Reading, Writing and Evaluating Argument – teaching materials.
• Write What Matters: A modular open educational resource to support first-year writing courses in Idaho (Long et al., MSL Academic Endeavors, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Resources

• The College Composition (C-ID English 100) textbooks and resources will be helpful. Many of those include brief or partial treatments of English 105 course content.
• Arguing Using Critical Thinking (Marteney, ASCCC OERI, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Critical Thinking (Gurevitch); (Gurevitch) – LibreTexts  (CC BY)
• Diving into Rhetoric (Armstrong, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• MIT Rhetoric course (Steven Strong, 2015) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Textbooks

Openly Licensed

• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Steinberg, 2014)  (CC BY-NC-SA)
• The Open Anthology of Literature in English (O’Brien)  (O’Brien) (CC BY-NC)
• Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature (Ringo and Kashyap, 2020) – LibreTexts ; Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature (Ringo and Kashyap, 2020) – Canvas Commons (CC BY-NC)
• Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication (Bennet, 2017)  ; (Bennet, 2017) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)

Copyrighted and Openly Licensed

• Composition and Literature (Sexton and Soles, BCcampus, 2019) This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.
• Introduction to Literature (Lumen Learning) ; Introduction to Literature (Lumen Learning) – LibreTexts  This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.
• Literature for the Humanities (Lumen Learning)  This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.

Resources

• The English Composition (C-ID English 100) textbooks and resources will be helpful.
• Creating Literary Analysis (Cordell and Pennington, 2012) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Introduction to Poetry (Lindsay and Bergstrom, 2019) (CC BY)
• Say Her Name: Discovering Women’s Voices in History (Palmer, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• See also the literature elective textbooks, readers, and anthologies below.

Textbooks

Openly Licensed

• Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from Its Beginnings to 2020, Volume 1: American Literature from Its Beginnings to 1820 (Grogan, 2021) (CC BY-SA)
• Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from the Beginnings to 2020, Volume 2: American Literature from 1820-1865 (Grogan, 2021) (CC BY-SA)
• American Literature I: An Anthology of Texts From Early America Through the Civil War (Kurtz)  (Kurtz) (CC BY-SA)
• Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution (Kurant, 2018) ; Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution (Kurant, 2018) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
• Digital American Literature Anthology (O’Connor, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (DeRosa  et al., 2016) – LibreTexts (CC BY) 

Copyrighted and Openly Licensed

• American Literature I (Lumen Learning) ; American Literature I (Lumen Learning) – LibreTexts This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page. Covers the time period up until the Civil War. 

Resources

• African American Literature (Syllabus and links to readings) (CC BY NC-SA).
• Case Study: Expanding the Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (Robbins) (CC BY)

Textbooks

Openly Licensed

• Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from Its Beginnings to 2020, Volume 1: American Literature from 1945 to 2020 (CC BY-SA)
• Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from the Beginnings to 2020, Volume 3: American Literature from 1865-1914 (Grogan, 2021) (CC BY-SA)
• Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from the Beginnings to 2020, Volume 4: American Literature from 1914-1945 (Grogan, 2021) (CC BY-SA)
• Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present (Berke et al., 2015)  ; Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present (Berke et al., 2015) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)

Copyrighted and Openly Licensed

• American Literature I (Lumen) ; American Literature I (Lumen) – LibreTexts This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page. Covers the time period up until the Civil War.  
• American Literature II (Lumen)  ; American Literature II (Lumen) – LibreTexts This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.

Resources

• African American Literature (Syllabus and links to readings) (CC BY NC-SA).

• Compact Anthology of World Literature (Getty and Kwon, 2015); (Getty and Kwon, 2015) – LibreTexts  (CC BY-SA) Readings are all pre-seventeenth century.
• World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650 (Getty and Kwon, 2015); World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650 (Getty and Kwon, 2015) – LibreTexts  (CC BY-SA)

• Compact Anthology of World Literature II: Volumes 4, 5, and 6 (Turlington et al., 2018)  ; Compact Anthology of World Literature II: Volumes 4, 5, and 6 (Turlington et al., 2018) – LibreTexts  (CC BY-SA)

• The Open Anthology of Literature in English (O’Brien) (CC BY-NC)

• The Open Anthology of Literature in English (O’Brien) (CC BY-NC)

No resources identified.

• British Literature I: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism (Robinson and Getty, 2018)
  (CC BY-SA)
• British Literature through History (CC BY-NC-SA)

• British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Robinson, 2018) ; British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Robinson, 2018) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
• British Literature through History (CC BY-NC-SA)
• English Literature: Victorians and Moderns (Sexton) ; English Literature: Victorians and Moderns (Sexton) – LibreTexts  (CC BY)

The Inside, Outside, and Upside Downs of Children’s Literature: From Poets and Pop-ups to Princesses and Porridge (Schuster) (CC BY-NC-ND; “ND” indicates no modifications can be made)

Textbooks

• Creative Writing, Creative Process: Ruminations and Exercises (Cheney, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Introduction to Creative Writing (Lein, 2021) (CC BY)
• Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom (Bailey et al, 2020) (CC BY)
• Write or Left: Intro to Creative Writing (Priebe, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Resources

• Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations (Rubin, 2018); Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations (Rubin, 2018) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA “except where otherwise noted”)