Open Educational Resources (OER) are openly licensed, free resources. This means that in addition to being cost-free, the user is free to keep, modify, combine, reuse, and share the resource.
OER can be physical or digital, and can be in any medium (audiovisual, text).
Contact Christina Boyle, OER coordinator, to learn more about implementing OER In your classroom.
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The Process of Research Writing by
The goal of this book is to guide you through this process of research writing by emphasizing a series of exercises that touch on different and related parts of the research process.
The open education anthology of earlier American literature by
This anthology was created for an American literature survey course in collaboration with Robin DeRosa and undergraduate students.
The Oxford book of American essays by
Included in this volume are essays by Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and more.
Writing spaces: Reading on writing vol. I by
This volume includes essays in which authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.
Writing spaces: Reading on writing vol. II by
Authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing.
Writing the nation: A concise introduction to American literature 1865 to present by
This anthology (1865-present) provides an opportunity for students to engage in extensive analysis of American works; includes commentary from editors.
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About writing: A guide by 
The word on college reading and writing by
Written by five college reading and writing instructors, this interactive, multimedia text draws from decades of experience teaching students who are entering the college reading and writing environment for the very first time. It includes examples, exercises, and definitions for just about every reading- and writing-related topic students will encounter in their college courses.
Writing for success by
Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
Writing in college: From competence to excellence by
Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text.
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