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, 2020) – 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 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)
- Writing Guide with Handbook (OpenStax, Bachelor-Robinson, 2022); Writing Guide with Handbook (2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
- 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 in Cultural Contexts: Writing Within and Across Modalities and Subjectivities (Gurevich, 2021) (CC BY except where otherwise noted)
- 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)
- 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, 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.
- 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.”
- 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 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”.
For more resources, including reading anthologies and grammar and style guides, return to the main Open Educational Resources and English page.
This page last updated April 28, 2022.