Recommended Textbooks - Composition & Research

Write Here, Write Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research by Aaron Tucker and Paul Chafe. Published on Pressbooks by Ryerson University. Step by step guide to academic research from the process of close reading, to close analysis, to research. Multi-media including video and assignments.
Writing in College, From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill. (2016) Published on Opentextbook Library. Designed for first and second-year composition courses meant to demystify the norms of academic writing.
Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis. by Randall Fallows. Published on Opentextbooks Library. Designed to help students write and revise an analytical essay.

Other Recommended Sources

MLA 8th Edition Instructional Videos. As described by their creators:

My colleague and I built a series of 8 videos to explain how to properly cite the most common sources using the 2016 MLA 8th edition. Each video has a CC BY license, and we hope instructors will embed them into their course shells as a resource for students. The videos teach students how to do their own documentation and citation, rather than encourage them to use citation generators.

Index of OER Resources in Composition

Please review and update the editable Google Spreadsheet that indexes OER Resources in Composition. Please be careful to watch any deletions or major changes as this is fully editable.