What's in This Course Shell?

In the Spring of 2019, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative Links to an external site. decided to fund the creation of How Arguments Work in order to serve faculty and students across the state. ASCCC OERI subsequently chose to fund additions and revisions to this book in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. Visit the ASCCC OERI webpage Links to an external site. to learn more about the availability and adoption of OER.

The elements of this Canvas course have been provided for you to integrate into your existing course or to be used as a starting point to which you can add your own resources. If you are viewing this resource and wish to obtain it for your own use, please go to Canvas Commons and search on "How Arguments Work" in order to import it into your Canvas course. Here you will find:

1. Quizzes and sample essays for use with the chapters in the book.
2. Brainstorming assignments for three types of essays
3. Essay assignments
4. A complete openly licensed text, How Argument Work by Anna Mills, integrated into modules. If you would like to access this text and tailor it to meet your needs, you can find it in LibreTexts Links to an external site.. The text as it exists here is being pulled from LibreTexts. This means if any changes or edits are made to the text as it exists in LibreTexts, those changes will be pushed to this shell and to your course if you use this resource as presented here. You can pull the pages into modules as needed.
5. An extensive Teacher's Guide with many more resources, including lesson plans, course maps, slide presentations, and more in the final module.