English

Composition

I was curious if anyone has found a good OER text for a WR122/Composition II course. I am working with About Writing by Robin Jeffrey for a WR121/Composition I course, but I'd like to see if other writing/composition instructors have found anything else for the next level up.

 I like Writing for Success and Writing in College: from Competence to Excellence. Links are below. 
http://open.lib.umn.edu/writingforsuccess/  
http://textbooks.opensuny.org/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence/  For our ATD OER Degree Grant, one of our English professors is seeking a truly open text for his English Composition II course.  In his words:
“Ideally, I am looking for texts that offer writing theory that is up to date, fairly challenging, and succinct. I like chapters in the 15-25 page length.”
“In terms of topics, recent articles about technology, medicine (stem-cell research), culture, and the environment are all good bets.”

The best examples he has come up with, both by Charles Bazeman, are too restrictive to meet the grant. ND as a permission restriction is a deal killer.
A Rhetoric of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 1 - CC BY-NC-ND
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=307

The Informed Writer – no CC designation given – restricted non-commercial and non-derivative, no republishing - http://writing.colostate.edu/textbooks/informedwriter/
Anyone have any thoughts regarding something that fits these requirements and is either CC 0, CC BY, or CC BY SA?

 Hi Peter, I'm not sure if this fits the criteria, but he might want to take a look at Jenn Kepka's Oregon Writes Open Writing Text. FYI, Amy
Rhetoric and Composition
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition

I’m working with an instructor new to OER who is seeking an OER (or perhaps several) that addresses these areas:
-writing essays about poetry, drama and literary fiction
-applying techniques and schools of literary criticism (feminist, Marxist, critical race theory—these are just examples) to writing essays

Might be of use--here is a playlist of videos (with CC licenses) that I've made around using writing/reading literature:  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZptnQ98JwtXBpSG4-6D-LC_egJiL1_j   
 
I am working with a rhet & comp faculty member who has been seeking an OER alternative to Pearson's "Pathways: Writing Scenarios" and
"Expressways: Writing Scenarios" with MyWritingLab -- as well as potential alternatives to NoRedInk, which has been buggy for his students --
for use in dev ed and adult basic education reading and writing courses, particularly for co-req courses in conjunction with credit-bearing English courses.
This instructor is particularly interested in an online reading/writing lab alternative for his students for asynchronous use and writing practice.
I have collected many resources over the years on our library's Writing OER Subject Guide, but of course,
it's difficult to replicate the course platform experience of Pearson's MyWriting Lab and its asynchronous writing aids.
I have also recently come across Lumen's  English Composition I Corequisite course,
and Regent University's case study in creating their own alternative to Pearson's MyWriting Lab, a site/tool called RUwrite.
Has anyone had experience with these resources, or used or created other openly licensed or open access alternatives to MyWriting Lab,
or even alternatives to NoRedInk? Is anyone using something that hasn't been shared in the "usual" OER places/repositories?
I want to make sure I'm covering my bases!

You might also consider  https://hippocampus.org/ .  The NROC English learning objects are both very good but also fully accessible.--

Critical Thinking
I’m assisting an English faculty member looking for an OER alternative for From Critical Thinking to Argument.
We’ve looked at How Arguments Work, Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature and a handful of others
 but the content coverage isn’t what they’re looking for. (For what it’s worth, the initial test they use is to look for the terms "ethos," "post hoc" and "Toulmin.”)
 If you have suggestions please send them my way.

This is by far the best text I have found which actually teaches Toulmin logic and argument.  They are rare, so I’m glad you reached out.  It covers the appeals and logical fallacies as well, so should meet your faculty’s criteria.  I hope this helps.
Critical Thinking https://mhcc.pressbooks.pub/wr122/
These are things Oregon’s WR122 course focuses on,
so you might check the OpenOregon website for what other faculty are using as well. https://openoregon.org/resources/

You likely know this, but just in case. There are many pages on the LibreTexts other than those two books.
If you do a search for those three terms, you find several dozen pages on the Humanities library that are likely relevant for your search
 (this is one powerful aspect of meta-tagging at the page-level of multiple OER texts within a centralized platform like ours).
https://human.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=ethos&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
https://human.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=post+hoc&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
https://human.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=Toulmin&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves

If a specific collection of pages (e.g., premade textbook) doesn't do it for you, we can help construct a customized text using these pages.
If one follows the organization of your original source book, then we call that remix a textbook map and there are best practices we can provide you.
An alternative is what Los Rios CC district, a member of our growing LibreNet consortium, is doing with us.
They are using faculty to build Course Reports (aka Remixing Maps) that student remixers on our side will make into a reality (see https://youtu.be/hqbsDk1pygA ).

I am the author of one of the books you mention, How Arguments Work, and also the English Discipline Lead for the ASCCC OER Initiative.
I know of one other OER textbook besides mine that covers the English C-ID 105 curriculum in rhetoric:
 Informed Arguments:  A Guide to Writing and Research.  I would love to see more OER options in the field.
I also wonder if your faculty member would be willing to take another look at How Arguments Work.
I have taken the student-centered, equity-minded approach of using everyday terms rather than technical rhetorical vocabulary whenever possible.  
My book does cover the concepts they mention extensively but scarcely mentions the terms
 "ethos," "Toulmin," or "post hoc." Toulmin argumentation is covered in Chapter 2: Reading to Figure out the Argument,
which describes argument mapping, and Section 4.4, which talks about warrants using the term "assumptions."  
Section 4.5 gives a taxonomy of fallacies, including what I call doubtful cause (though I just updated that to put post hoc ergo propter hoc in parentheses.)
Another advantage of How Arguments Work is that we offer Canvas ancillary resources like self-grading quizzes and essay assignments.  
A search on Canvas Commons for How Arguments Work will turn up a course shell with all of these.
It would be great if you invited your faculty member to email me with any questions or feedback about how my book covers rhetorical principles.  
I am currently looking for collaborators to work on adding to it this summer if they are interested.
Thanks,
Anna Mills

Digital Writing
My college is developing a new (for us!) course in "digital writing" or maybe "writing for digital media" – you get the idea – and we'd really love to design it using OER materials.
I've been searching around for materials of this sort in the usual places I'd find complete OER stuff, and I keep striking out. If you have suggestions for me, I'd welcome them!

Two suggestions from the marketing side of digital writing:

1) Check out Part Three (Chapters 9 -13) of Red & Yellow's eMarketing book. The book is CC BY-NC-SA.
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RY_eMarketing_ed7.pdf
2) eCampus Ontario has a comprehensive set of digital files for their Digital Media and Marketing Communications course.
Modules 4 and 5 contain text and activities related to content development for digital media. If you click on the Download link, you can get a zip file of all resources.
The materials are CC BY.
https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/item-details/#/8c10f99e-55c1-4ae8-8808-3f7499996a59

OpenStax offers a free, online, OER textbook — Writing Guide with Handbook — which may suit your course needs.
This textbook aligns with the goals, topics, and objectives of most first-year writing and composition courses.
One of the book's themes is "Information and media literacy," and the text even guides students through the process of creating a portfolio.

Some chapters that may be particularly useful include:
Chapter 1: The Digital World: Building on What You Already Know to Respond Critically
Chapter 18: Multimodal and Online Writing: Creative Interaction between Text and Image
Chapter 17: Image Analysis: What You See
Chapter 7: Evaluation or Review: Would You Recommend It?
Chapter 14: Annotated Bibliography: Gathering, Evaluating, and Documenting Sources
Additionally, the text highlights the work of prominent individuals who work in genres like newspapers, visual arts, and films through the "Genre Trailblazer" feature.
 

English 101: 

• English 101 Text
  https://www.oercommons.org/courses/english-composition-1
• Grammar and Punctuation Practice
  http://www.sandhills.edu/academic-departments/english/grammarguide.html
• Another English 101 Text
  http://www.oercommons.org/courses/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence-open-suny-textbooks/view
• Annie Dillard's "Sight into Insight"
  http://dcrit.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/1974/01/Seeing.pdf
• George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"
  http://orwell.ru/library/articles/elephant/english/e_eleph
• Joan Didion's "On Keeping a Notebook"
  https://www.penusa.org/sites/default/files/didion.pdf

I’m looking for OER textbooks that would work for my college’s English 101 (Composition) and English 102 (Literature and Composition). I have checked the suggestions the index for this listserv, but nothing there would meet our needs. I have also found about 11 general OER composition textbooks so far, but all of them are either under-developed or too advanced for our courses. Is there anything else out there? I have not found any textbooks suitable for our Literature and Composition course (which focuses on analysis of literary works in the major genres).

I asked one of our staff members (thank you Fred) to pull the resources we were recently looking at for our English courses. Hope this helps.
Resources:
https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=43
Lumen courses:

Level 1: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp1v2xmaster/
Level 2: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp2kscopexmaster/
http://writingcommons.org/ is a great secondary source for students to use in tandem with their textbook. It covers very specific portions of academic writing that I find students often have questions on when coming in for tutoring. There are video lectures to accompany the text. It also covers literary theory which she may find useful for her literature/102 course.

Database for older public domain literature project https://www.gutenberg.org/

I know there are myriad OER's for a basic textbook for an English 101/intro to comp course. But I'm looking to see what's out there for interactive adult learner native speaking grammar quizzes/exercises that can work well as a supplement to the course. So much of the grammar/quiz stuff is clearly aimed at K-12 or non-native speakers. There's gotta be something targeted towards adult learners who need individual practice with syntax and sentence building skills.  

The Grammar Essentials section of the Excelsior Online Writing Lab https://owl.excelsior.edu/grammar-essentials/  could be a help.

I want to add more Latinx writers to my reading list for Engl 101. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can find OER essays or articles  by Latinx writers?

 If your library or state subscribes to EBSCO Academic, JSTOR or other databases that have fulltext magazine articles, you could search for favorite writers that have published essays in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, or others.  Then you can link to those essays in your learning management system. Your library or state has already paid for you to have access to these writings so you might as well use them with your students!
   As an example, I searched for the author, Isabel Allende. Among other places, she has fulltext articles in Good Housekeeping, the Journal of Modern Literature, and the New York Times Magazine. I also found short stories and poems by Allende and others published in literary magazines and in fulltext in the databases.
   These may not be OER examples but they are “free” through your library!

It's kind of tricky sometimes to identify essays by Latinx writers if they are writing about topics unrelated to culture or race.  
There's one in 88 Open Essays (#32 by Linda González.)  You might try The Conversation and Yes!.  The essays on both sites have CC licenses.

Contemporary Short Stories

Search on behalf of a colleague. They're looking for:
> Short prose (fiction or non), preferably 21st century, outside of the mainstream cishet white Euro-American experience.
Nonwhite writers, LBGTQIA writers, immigrants & refugees, indigenous writers, work from around the globe and from ignored and/or oppressed minorities anywhere.
I'm decolonizing a short-stories class, making it intentionally global and intersectional, and I'll take anything for which I can document a source!
The course is a rebuild of a previous "Contemporary Short Stories" class.
The description reads: "Short Reads 21st-century stories and other short writings from around the world, with a focus on current social, cultural, and global issues."
 The instructor is hoping to cast a pretty broad net, emphasizing a broad diversity of lived experience with some teachable examples of the basic elements of literature.

Portland Community College developed short story workbooks for ESOL students that may have relevant content: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Short%20Story

Critical Reading and Writing

I am in the witching hour before textbook reqs are due and am desperately hoping to find some great resources for our English faculty teaching the Critical Reading and Writing course.
I have a vast repository of resources compiled which could be possible but these are overwhelming to go through at this late hour.
I don’t know the discipline well enough to be confident in what I whittle out and am terrified I could think a resource not pertinent and it’s actually fabulous.
Do you have any awesome choices I can offer up.
Top 3 complete resources I can present. The course description is below as well as the current text adoptions. 

Diversity and Inclusion

The English faculty at my college are working on their COR for transfer English, and they are looking to include OER “rhetorics or readers
 that have been compiled/edited/written by a person of color or someone of diverse perspective/voice.”
I steered them towards 88 Open Essays. Anything else out there that fits this description?

A resource faculty at Skyline College have identified is My Slipper Floated Away (2020, CUNY, CC-BY-NC-ND)

English of Academic Purposes

I am looking for OERs on English for Academic Purposes. Are there any out there that your institutions use? 

You may want to check this:
https://learn.saylor.org/course/index.php?categoryid=11  (English courses at Saylor)

Thanks, Barthelemy! Simone, if you look at any Saylor English course, look for the "Resources" link on the left of the page to see all the resources on one page -- makes browsing a bit easier.
There are a couple open textbooks as well:
https://writingcommons.org/
https://www.saylor.org/books/#comm

You might also look at Bad Ideas about Writing here: https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf
 
There are three options listed under English Language Learning in the eCampusOntario Open Textbook Library: https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=English%20Language%20Learning

Ethical Research

I've found plenty of OER materials at the English 101 level with a handful of chapters about ethical research, but are there any OERs that focus only/specifically on ethical research?

Treasa, I searched MERLOT using "ethical research" as a term and found the following. They may not all be relevant, but you might look through these. Also, from MERLOT you can search other libraries if you click on Other Libraries at the top of the page:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=ethical+research&sort.property=relevance

You said you found chapters, which leads me to think you've already discovered OSU's Choosing and Using Sources, but I thought I'd send it along just in case. Chapter 7 is on ethical research.

Here's the link - https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/choosingsources/front-matter/introduction/

ESL

Any recommendations for good open content for English Language Learners?
Here are videos made by Brett Myhren from Saddleback College in CA. The videos are all CC BY.
www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDtZe8N6oZ-nS0sZUDF5kw

Below are the resources that were shared in this mailing list before. Hope they help. :-)
COERLL, The University of Texas Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning ( http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/ )
BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English (Scroll down and you will see 5 books) https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-t...ic%20Upgrading

The OWL at Purdue has some resources: 
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/5/  
This open book has a chapter for English Language Learners: 
http://open.lib.umn.edu/writingforsuccess/  
This open book also has a pretty good chapter: 
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/a/pcc.edu/file/d/0B2vjQIMyjDswc0VQbnl6Y29ERGs/view&sa=D&ust=1450299200640000&usg=AFQjCNHppEBIzN9XrnN6cSwpRrOV1Fzeng 
Materials for ESL?  One of my faculty is asking, so I will pass along anything that comes my way.
My husband teaches ESL at our college, and he teaches fully OER. This is one favorite site: Athabasca U: http://eslau.ca/   

Does anyone have information on low level ESL open source material?
Caron, my husband uses resources and materials from Athabasca U in teaching ESL here at GCC: http://write-site.athabascau.ca/
Hi Caron, here are a few ESOL options used in Oregon community colleges: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=esol

Does anyone one have Citizenship OER material for second language learners? 

Here are some that we use for our citizenship class not for credit course 

Listed below are the links for the USCIS citizenship materials, all the material are free and can be down loaded as PDF documents:
https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/educators/educational-products
https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/see-all-section-items-title/Beginning%20Level/55257?destination=node/41141
In addition, under the USCIS website educators tab there are other materials available for instructors.

For ESL and Citizenship materials, you might try the I-DEA materials at the OpenWashington hub in OER Commons.
Here is a link to Spring Quarter: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/25092-i-dea-spring-course-package/view

Here is a link to the whole project: https://www.oercommons.org/browse/featured-item/703?__hub_id=34&f.keyword=openwa-idea
I don't think it is truly OER, but we've had some folks run learning circles with second language learners who are taking the citizenship test using http://www.citizenshipstudyguide.com...tudy-guide.php.

Here's a presentation of what they did at the Rhode Island public library with that course material.

I am working with a colleague to identify OER resources for ESL (English as a Second Language) material. She indicated she has found some grammar and composition items, but nothing for speaking and listening objectives. Thanks! 
Hi Melody, here's what's known to be in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=esol

I have an instructor looking to develop a curriculum that simultaneously teaches language while preparing ESL students for their bridge into college. Some refer to this as contextualized instruction and some refer to it as English for Specific Purposes (ESP). So, it’s college readiness for speakers of languages other than English. She intends to use this at a community program outside the college which will help prepare these students for admission to our community college.  I realize this is quite specific, so any OER related to college readiness or non-English speakers may be able to be adapted.

I recommend Dave Dillon's college success textbook: https://press.rebus.community/blueprint2/ . Dave remixes many open sources, so you can find more content through his links. 
This is what I know to be in use for ESOL courses in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=esol

Does anyone know of an open textbook on Academic English for Bilingual Students? 
 Read Faster, Understand More: Advanced Academic Reading Skills for English Language Learners, Compiled by Timothy Krause
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Um6u1Nx8A06_Kp3dZKEBpCb8TRYYH-_I
I was wondering if anyone can share suggestions for ESL OER material?

Here are a few:
Citizenship Resources - US Immigration Services
Beginning Level - Citizenship Activities
Open Oregon ESL Resources

https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/owi/  = This helped me IMMENSELY with my writing classes; I think it could be useful for all instructors.

I have a faculty member looking for OER for ESL, specifically for reading/listening/speaking level 2 and grammar/writing level 3.

One of our faculty here at Iowa State has put together a textbook, "Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English," which fits most of the things your instructor
is looking for, apart from the writing section. You can access the book in Pressbooks at: iastate.pressbooks.pub/oralcommunication/ 

We have been building and harvesting ESL books for the past few years on our Humanities library (12 integrated and several more in preparation):

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages/English_as_a_Foreign_Language

Perhaps these will help. We also just harvested a set of H5P ESL exercises into our LibreStudio platform (https://studio.libretexts.org/subject/language)
and intend to continue that effort for the next year.

Here's what's being used for ESOL courses in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL . Some of these will be clear which level they're for
and you might need to click through to see for others.

I have a colleague who teaches ESL (English as a Second Language)
and is looking for OER videos or audio that teach the speaker's tone/attitude (She further describes her needs below).
She's searched online and asked the other ESL faculty, and I've searched the relevant OER repositories that I can think of.
Do any of you have any leads?
If so, could you please email her at bhuot@ccsf.edu ?

"I am teaching an online course that focuses on listening.
I am doing a unit on tone, the speaker's attitude.
And I have a really hard time finding any audio/video files or online exercises where my students can practice listening to the tone,
the speaker's attitude. Might you be able to know of sources that I can use for my "speaker's attitude - Tone" unit?
Thank you in advance for helping me."

Some folks from our Graduate College at Iowa State University developed this book,
Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English, for ESL graduate students, which I think might help in this situation!
Feel free to check it out on Pressbooks. Its main focus is on "listening, speaking, lexicogrammar, pragmatics, and pronunciation."
There is a section on intonation and how that translates to meaning/implied meaning in English.

It doesn't cover tone for sarcasm, etc, but it covers a lot of the basics.
There is likely a YouTube series that covers some of this as well, and I'm hoping others will know of some additional resources to share!

I have found a few resources.
Here is the link to the libguide page that I created.  See if any of these help you?
https://libguides.mccd.edu/OER-Disc/ESL

I’m working with my ESL faculty to find a good text for ESL 913, which is a Level 3 speaking and listening course.
I’m attaching the course outline of record, but in a nutshell this course is a high-intermediate ESL course that interlaces
reading skills with oral production. There are two publisher texts that my faculty have been using,
but are increasingly unhappy with them:
Craven, M., K. D, Sherman. Q Skills for Success 3 Listening & Speaking Student Book, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
Miller, J.L. and Cohen R.F.. Longman Academic Reading Series Book 3: Reading Skills for College with Essential Online Resources, 1st ed. White Plains, New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2017
We found a few options out there, but they are either too low or they don’t quite help with the skills that are being required:
Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English (Pressbooks)
People and Places: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Module for Learners (LibreTexts)
Speaking, Listening, and Pronunciation Projects for ELLs, Intermediate Level (LibreTexts)
That said, we’re wondering what else is being used out there, and are asking folks for their recomme3ndations.
We’re seeing that there are quite a few resources for grammar/writing courses (and my ESL faculty are quickly adopting them!), but for listening/speaking courses there is a bit of a dearth.
So any help would be appreciated!

Oregon's ESOL community is creating a ton of great open content which you can browse here:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL

I’m trying to find more OERs for our ESOL department (specifically for our ESOL 0309 class.)
I’ve mostly been exploring works in the OER Commons with an eye towards textbooks.
I also saw that OER Commons has a group “Adult Education Open Community of Resources” that includes some ESL resources, which I sent to my instructors.
Do y’all have any favorite ESOL resources you’ve worked with that I could share with my department?

Our faculty just put out a few resources on OpenNJ.net but I don't know if they're quite what you're looking for
https://opennj.net/ircbc/contains/?t=%22English%20as%20Second%20Language%22&f=TO
(or under Institutions, click on Rowan College at Burlington County, view all, then under subject topics, click on English as Second Language ( 9 ))

You may find the 20 books in our Central Bookshelves of use to you
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages/English_as_a_Second_Language
and there are more in Campus Bookshelves
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=ESL
and
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=ESOL
If you are looking for homework, I think there are several ADAPT courses too.
Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Here are the ESOL OER in use in Oregon (that I know of): http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL
 

I’m reaching out on behalf of our ESL faculty who are looking for a replacement reader for their level 2 reading and listening course, ESL 912.
For some time now, many of the faculty have been using Grace Hansen’s Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Leader for their reading text;
most use their own materials as the remainder of the content, meaning that the course is often offered as low-cost
(requiring purchase of the print copy of the text) or zero-cost (the text can be found on EBSCO).
However, our Bookstore Manager has informed us that he can no longer reliably get good used, let alone new, copies of the text,
and we are unsure how much longer EBSCO will keep this version on their servers.Many faculty are looking for options—ideally,
something that could be offered as a free digital download and/or printable legally through our Bookstore for a low cost.
They are looking for something that would be centered on a central figure, like this text; they use it to teach both reading and other elements of American
or English-speaking culture, so having figures like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would be great.It's a long shot,
I know...but perhaps some folks out there have ideas?
You could browse the OER used for ESOL in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL.
A lot of the OER created here are built on a common theme.
They tend to be digital first and can be printed because of the permissions of the open license.One of my faculty is looking for OER for ESL 808 Intensive Grammar Review, one of our ESL summer courses. In the past, our faculty have used Bissonnette ESL Grammar The Way You Like It and Ramsey Conventions 101 A Functional Approach to Teaching (And Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation for the course. The Bissonnette text is still available and my faculty enjoy using it, however it looks like the Ramsey text is being pulled offline this year, so we’re looking for a replacement.I’m attaching the course outline of record for this course, and the course outcomes and objectives are below. In doing a quick check, there are many grammar texts out there, but nothing that quite lines up with the course like the Ramsey one did. Any help would be appreciated! (Happy to share out the results.)

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME(S) (SLO'S):

Upon successful completion of this course, a student will meet the following outcomes:

1. Recognize and employ the grammar terminology listed in the course content.
2. Compose sentences and short paragraphs using targeted grammar structures.
3. Apply editing skills to student writing.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:

Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:

1. Identify, compare, and contrast the rules governing the grammar structures listed in the course content.
2. Compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences which employ the grammatical structures listed in the course content.
3. Transform sentences to demonstrate knowledge of grammar structures.
4. Identify and correct grammatical errors in sentences and paragraphs.
5. Utilize academic resources and study skills to support grammar review.

You could look through the known adoptions for ESOL courses in Oregon (they use a variety of prefixes): http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL

Fairy Tales

I'm working with a professor who teaches a class on feminism and fairy tales, and she is looking for open resources for fairy tales, especially non Western ones to read in her class. Right now, the main priority is finding versions of stories themselves.
So far the resources I've found have been Open Folklore ( https://openfolklore.org/ ) for ideas, then FairyTalez.com ( https://fairytalez.com/ ) to see examples of stories out there, then the Hathi Trust to find original versions of the books the stories are in. However, most of the stories I'm finding that way are by early 20th century white authors writing for a white audience - certainly interesting to analyse, but I'm wondering it there's better representation out there.
Does anyone have ideas on where to look next for resources on fairy tales? 

Not specifically fairy-tale, but our OER-veteran English instructor Trish Nelson relies heavily on this website ( http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm ) for the myth/theory section of her composition and reading class. She says it has some great folklore.

Thank you everyone! I felt like I was hitting a wall, but now I'm excited to get back to the professor - so many of these look perfect.  I've had a few people share directly with me, so here are the materials I have compiled: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hv05lPOJlEcyAZ_Vd9pTwNtQFH6tY_ZD8u_C9wXTuvo/edit#

Grammar

Does anyone know of any free or open grammar tools to check for grammatical errors and sentence structure?

Try https://www.grammarly.com/  . I ask all of my students to use it before submitting their assignments. It's particularly helpful for ESL / EFL speakers.
Grammarly has a plug-in and it works within learning management systems and other software
Grammar Bytes is also useful http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm  
From an earlier query, I learned about an openly licensed tool for diagramming sentences: https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/humanities/linguistics/wcn8207/diagramming-sentences
I tried Grammarly.com and had mixed results. I wrote a sample including multiple errors. Grammarly picked up a lot--spacing, s/v agreement (present tense), its/it is, spelling errors. However, it didn't fix sentence boundaries (a big disappointment), s/v agreement in past tense, all there/their/they're errors, unparallel lists, etc. On balance, I still think it's useful, but would warn students that it misses a lot.

Central New Mexico Community College is working on creating a supplementary grammar guide to support our English OER! As we begin the process, I thought I would ask if anyone has created or knows about any CC licensed English grammar quizzes? We are hoping to supplement the guide with built in quizzes.

The University of Victoria has created an English Language Centre Study Zone that includes a grammar section. The description for this tool says: The Study Zone is for students of the English Language Centre (ELC) at the University of Victoria. ELC teachers create the English language lessons and practice exercises. The site is designed for our adult English language learners, but all are welcome to read the lessons and use the exercises.
This tool/content is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

Chauna Ramsey at Columbia Gorge Community College has shared her grammar assessments: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/conventions101/

Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) has an index of writing and reading activities along with other writing resources. All licensed CCBY.
Instructions on how to embed exercises are available here: https://owl.excelsior.edu/educator-resources/embed-activities/

You'll find some homegrown OER at Scottsdale CC's resource hub related to composition:
Grammar Workbook with activities: https://employee.scottsdalecc.net/thehub/developmental-composition-2/
Common Errors Assessment: https://employee.scottsdalecc.net/thehub/grammar-mechanics-and-usage/

I got the following proposal from the Tutoring Center who would like to create a Grammar Lab of sorts using OER.
The Tutoring Center is interested in creating an OER grammar lab.  
This Grammar Lab would contain interactive exercises broken into categories according to specific grammar points and verb tenses.  This OER Grammar Lab would benefit all students at the college who struggle with writing and grammar.  This would include all English Language Learners at the college --both who are in the ESL program and those taking classes at the college level in general.  It is geared towards scaffolding students with English grammar practice.  Ideally, each grammar point or verb tense would start with an overview (written/video) and then would contain auto corrected exercises to instill that particular grammar point that was reviewed.   Students may be referred or required to attend the Grammar Lab from any teacher, coach, tutor, or the student can self-select themselves.  
The Grammar Lab would be a compilation of free resources from the various OER sites,
enabling students not to incur any additional cost to overcome any grammar obstacles they may encounter while pursuing their academic goals.  
Questions for the group: Does anyone know if something like this already exists out there?
or Does anyone know of or have resources that could be useful to create this grammar lab?

Our Learning Center has some of these courses, and uses the Purdue OWL site for a number of their tutorials and mini-courses.
(Our ESL and English faculty also love using this site.) I’ve heard tell that there might be Canvas modules and content on the Canvas Commons from them—I haven’t investigated, but it might be worth looking at, if you campus uses Canvas as the LMS.

Here's where you can browse through ESOL resources created/used in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL
Our instructors are doing awesome work in this area! I hope you're able to reuse some of their materials.

Identity Related Readings

I have an English professor seeking OER-related nonfiction articles related to identity issues. Any ideas? I know we can also use library database articles as no-cost which would also work but other sources would be helpful to help her build a better unit for argumentation.  

88 Open Essays has six articles on identity.  Search using #selfdiscovery.   There are many excellent articles in The Conversation and YES! magazine that are openly-licensed and often address issues of identity.

Columbus State Community College recently dumped the Norton Anthology for all Comp I and II courses in favor of a LibGuide with linked readings.  We have an identity page in our guide:
https://library.cscc.edu/compreadingbank/identity

Life of an Amorous Woman

Translated and published in 1963 by Ivan Morris (who died in 1976).
I have checked the Copyright records and didn't find a renewal, but I am also not able to find it in Project Gutenberg or any other online sources.
Does anyone have a clue where I can find an open source of this title for our English department?

The preview on this page ( https://www.worldcat.org/title/life-of-an-amorous-woman-and-other-writings-edited-and-translated-by-ivan-morris/oclc/2465195  ) claims it's copyrighted. If the copyright for the translation was allowed to lapse in 1991, it seems like somebody would've noticed it ...
I couldn't find renewal record either (downloaded data set here, https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals?q= , and searched through for keywords I could think of), but it's possible I somehow missed it in about 20 minutes' search.
According to the preview, the copyright is by Unesco---if copyright was held by an organization, it doesn't seem like they would have let it lapse (unlike if it was held by an individual author/translator, who could have no longer cared enough about the work to let it lapse).

It's on Open Library and Internet Archive. You'll just have to join the "waitlist" for it, but it looks like there would be only one person ahead of you. Check it out: https://archive.org/details/lifeofamorouswo00ihar

Linguistics

Any suggestions for an OER that introduces Linguistics? This would be for an American Sign Language class--so it doesn't have to be super in-depth. 

There is a title on BC Campus that might work:
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=f934dfef-66b0-4533-8bb4-7daaf8e94900&contributor&keyword&subject

Another option could be

Wikibooks Linguistics

Literature

A fellow faculty member and I are designing an Introduction to Literature course. We are having difficulty finding materials on schools of literary criticism and important theorists with CC licensing. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( http://www.iep.utm.edu/ ) would be a great example of the type of resource we are looking for. Unfortunately, it is not CC. Any suggestions for resources on major schools of literary theory/criticism and important thinker would very much appreciated.
Places to find post-1950 open source texts would also be helpful.
Here are 150+ links I assembled for students when I was teaching an Introduction to Literature course:
https://www.diigo.com/user/kschnapp/criticism
Some of the links are almost ten years old, so many could be dead.

You might know about these already, but University of Michigan has some books that could have useful material in them. (They seem to have CC-BY-NC-ND licenses, though.)
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=etlc;c=etlc;idno=9362034.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;xc=1;g=dculture
You might also try Bloomsbury Open Access publishing: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/academic/open-access/  
It's not the easiest thing to search, but they used to have a number of explorations of literature in that collection. 
Although like any academic publisher, the sources mentioned above are mostly going to be a little too much for an introductory lit crit class.
I've always wanted to see if I could build a class on Literary Criticism using open access journals. I've not had the time, but I think it might be fun to explore that opportunity. If you want to try that approach, I would start with the Directory of Open Access Journals: doaj.org.

I’ve taken a look at what’s listed on Larry Green’s index under English, but I am also seeking – for a faculty member – information on what others are using for OER Introduction to Literature courses. I’ve found Lumen’s course, and will search Canvas Commons, (we use Canvas) but if anyone is using something beyond those, I’d love to hear about it!

Hi Megan, you can see what's being used in Oregon here: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=eng%20
I am currently curating all required readings for six English literature courses at our college to find all public domain literature assigned in each of these classes. What is hopeful about this, there is a great overlap. When it is not in PD I am looking for legal access to copyrighted readings either in our database collection or online. As a third step I am asking authors/publishers for royalty-free reuse permission or for them to consider donating a work to the creative commons. As of now, I am working in Google docs to gather all the readings. Faculty who teach these courses may edit down PD material to fit their needs, but mostly I am looking for poems, short stories, essays, and short criticisms. I am working from selections in several traditional anthologies from Macmillan and Norton. The classes range from American Literature to World Literature to English Composition. I have exactly one class set-up in our LibGuides. If the other professors adopt what I find, I am not sure how it will be presented, but the highest enrollment course, English Composition II, will not go without a print book option. With a mix of PD, CC-license, and proprietary I do not think I will convince that department to go OER. I think they will adopt a reader of the more recent highly desirable readings they want and go with that and be happy. But I am still striving to convince them they can do OER and do without sacrificing good, diverse, contemporary literature. I need an author or publisher to say OK to a single CC-licensed poem/short story/essay from one major author within their catalog, i.e. Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Raymond Carver, John Updike, Zora Neale Hurston, Edwidge Danticat, etc. I think it can be done, I think it needs more backing from someone bigger than me. I think if there was a universal consensus on which works those should be and we as an OER community can ask in a bigger, more public way, it could happen.  
Happy to share my Google Docs.  Thanks,  Alexis Carlson

Ours is a “Literature Through the Humanities” course (LIT2000), and was recently developed for our Achieving the Dream OER AA degree pathways grant. We attribute 46 sources in this course, so there is no single open resource used. This list includes some LibraVox readings of some of the pieces. At some point in the not too distant future, Lumen Learning should have our course content available for others to see/use, etc.

The faculty member who served as our Subject Matter Expert (SME) used 6 readings (in Module 5) from the Harlem Renaissance as a way to utilize a more modern literary and artistic movement to provide a greater mix of authors and content. The combination of readings for each module, original writing by the SME, journals, essays and discussion forums makes up our course.
In the meantime, below are the course module topics. I’d be happy to provide more info offline if you would like it.

 Modules
1 - The Reader and the Text
2 – Responding to Fiction
3 – The Art of Poetry
4 – The Art of Tragic Drama
5 – The Text and the World: The Harlem renaissance, a Case Study
6 – Research for Literary Analysis 

Recently I had an English Writing and Literature professor ask me about OERs for English literature courses focusing on contemporary, modern works. Might anyone have any ideas?

An OASIS search on Literature turns up a rather large selection:  https://oasis.geneseo.edu/basic_search.php?search=literature
Modern literature is all more than likely going to be clearly under copyright, and the amounts needed for a literature course likely far exceed what any judge would agree is fair use (remember, fair use is a legal defense, not an affirmative right).  But it may well be that someone has already gone to the effort of getting permission for specific uses.  
Proceed carefully, as the reproduction rights may be different for each work.  

If a campus has robust, archival periodical subscriptions, it would be possible to create an OER alternative by having the literature readings be links to short stories, poems and essays published first in magazines and journals. Flannery O’Connor, Robert Frost and many other great fiction writers and poets published their writings first in literary magazines and it would be possible to link to those writings if a campus has the library holdings.

An instructor is looking for materials on Women in Literature, that would be comparable to The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women:  The Traditions in English (3rd edition, volume 2) (2007) by S. Gilbert and S. Gubar (ISBN 978-0393930146).
Since we have transitioned to online courses, she apparently needs to start using Lumen Learning's courseware, but they don't appear to have one specifically for her needs.
I have done some preliminary searching, but would like to see if anything else may be available. Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

It looks like a lot of the contents of that Norton anthology are pre-1924 and therefore in the public domain. Project Gutenberg is a good place to start a search for those works: https://www.gutenberg.org/
Robin DeRosa's anthology is a great example of assigning students to fill in the contextual material to support the primary sources: https://openamlit.pressbooks.com/
For work that is currently under copyright, I recommend working with a librarian to find out what you may have access to via your databases.

In case it's helpful, I shared your note with my stepmother (who has a forthcoming CC licensed book on 19th Century novelist, Catharine Sedgwick), and she wrote the following note pasted below. Omeka.Net website content is CC BY NC licensed, by the way.
"My book project is on hold, alas, but I highly recommend the growing website archive of Catharine Sedgwick's Short Stories that Prof. Deborah Gussman is leading (I'm one of the co-editors). https://sedgwickstories.omeka.net/
A couple of Sedgwick's short stories have appeared in earlier editions of the Norton Anthology--recently the NAAL has just published excerpts from her best-known novel. Using these stories would work well for the research and contextualizing assignment mentioned in one of the two emails you forwarded. I've used her stories frequently in my first- and second-year writing courses (What in the story needs an explanatory note? How do you create a useful one?, etc.)"

If you have access to JSTOR or other magazine archives, many stories by Flannery O'Connor and other authors were originally published in literary magazines such as the "New Yorker" or the "Sewanee Review" which may be available in fulltext even if they are not yet in public domain. You could then link to them from your campus learning management system.

ProQuest’s Literature Online database also includes primary texts and could provide access to works by women.

I found the Table of Contents for the anthology in question available here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393930146/about-the-book/table-of-contents . I did a quick scan and would venture a rough estimate that only around 1/3 of the texts included in that edition of the anthology would have been published in 1924 or before and would now reside in the public domain. It would be possible to produce an open access anthology replacement for these works, but much more difficult to do so for the other works, as many, if not all of them, would still be under copyright.

If an open anthology for the pre-1923 work is of interest, you may want to begin by speaking with people who have led or coordinated similar projects (i.e. Robin DeRosa, Tim Robbins, Julie Ward, folks at Rebus Community: https://www.rebus.community/t/project-summary-the-open-anthology-of-earlier-american-literature/428 , https://press.rebus.community/making...ura-hispanica/ + https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/chapter/case-study-expanding-open-anthology-of-earlier-american-literature/ ).

Besides 88 Open Essays and Lumen's Thematic Reading Anthology, is anyone aware of an open textbook that is an anthology of readings from a variety of genres, bonus if it is both fiction and non-fiction? One of our English Composition II faculty is looking to do a textbook replacement (as opposed to curating readings which the other faculty have done) for her course. Currently the course uses Arguing about Literature which mixes literary and non-literary readings in thematic organization. An Intro to Literature or other literary genre anthology would not be appropriate in this case as it is not a literature class, but rather a composition class that uses literature as the basis of most readings (it's a weird structure).

Hi Megan: My Creative Writing textbook might have pieces that work = http://bit.ly/NDSCS-Open-Folder .  SO SORRY! I should’ve clarified; the textbook is called _Write or Left_.

Here is my directive from an ENG faculty member: "Yes.  Find me an OER novel that is not 100 years old for ENG 1B and has multicultural perspective content."

This is a common challenge for Lit or any Humanities courses.  I have a couple of recommendations, the Norton Libguide may be the best option.  When it comes to literature, I do recommend a blend of OER and copyrighted materials.  Whether they can be utilized under Fair Use practices, such as short stories, or added to the library’s eBook collection or some other more affordable option, utilizing today’s current and diverse voices in literature is important.  Hopefully these sources can help your faculty member get closer to the content they are looking for.  But working with your campus librarians to see what is in their collections already and what can possibly be added will enhance their ability to find a novel that works for their class.
88 Open Essays: a reader for students of composition and rhetoric
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/88-open-essays-a-reader-for-students-of-composition-rhetoric
Libguide to replace Norton Anthology for comp courses
https://library.cscc.edu/compreadingbank/identity
My Slipper Floated Away
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/actioncallout/5428a618-2dbc-4e67-9df1-ad3b69e7ae6c/attachment/original-420616bb0a7e3e56d7b5d7eef60ee653.pdf
Open Library
https://openlibrary.org/
Unglue - free ebooks
https://unglue.it/
An Anthology of Student Writing Collected at Lansing CC
https://ctl.openlcc.net/textbooks/writing-lcc/

I teach English and literature, and I teach an OER class (early British literature).
Sadly, the early literature isn't in a language that is understandable for a general population (i.e. Old English such as Beowulf or Middle English works like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight).
Yes, some of these works are available in OER, but the translations of these works are under copyright except for a few archaic translations that are often riddled with errors or written with difficult prose.

I taught Early British Literature this past fall semester and was pretty happy with using a combination of An Open Companion to British Literature and
British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism.
The former was an open pedagogy project and includes student annotations to accompany the text (which helps with the older translations) and the latter has good historical period explanations.
Both include a wide range of texts.

This might not be the answer they are looking for or useful but it's what came to mind.
What about making this an open pedagogy project that helps future students?
Have the students start with and work with the lesser-quality texts/translations (maybe put into a Google doc) and have them do the research/annotations to improve the quality of the text.
The result is the opportunity to both engage with the lesser text but help them do a bit of what lit scholars do.  

I'm currently building a Pressbook for Introduction to Literature and I've been looking through a variety of places for content (including the OERizona Commons hub). Do any of us have good instructional resources for Literature that they might be using that aren't on the hub and that you'd be willing to share for a remix project? Specifically, I'm looking for material addressing drama and fiction (I have tons of poetry material).

Have you seen these in the Pressbooks Directory?
Let's Read: A Collection of Texts for College Composition (VIVA)
An Introduction to the Analysis of Fiction (Saint Peter's University)
Prose Fiction (Indiana University)
Composition and Literature (BCcampus)
Introduction to Literature (University of West Florida)
American Literatures After 1865 (University of Missouri-Saint Louis)
American Literatures Prior to 1865 (University of Missouri-Saint Louis)
English Literature: Victorians and Moderns (BCcampus)
Modern World Literature: Compact Edition (Lake Superior College)
"Intro to Fiction" Anthology (Columbia Gorge Community College)

Music (writing about)

It looks like I will be developing some new online and hybrid courses this summer, and I'd like to use OER materials instead of requiring a textbook. I hope to develop a section of ENGL 102 with a theme of popular music, in which students will study the history of musical genres, styles, and artists and then conduct research on a music-related topic of their choosing.
For the research/writing part, a book I have used in the past is The Craft of Research. It would be great to find a comparable OER resource for this. I did some cursory searching of music history OER sources, and I found some leads, but I want to avoid materials that address discipline-specific components such as music theory and instrumentation.

A couple of the resources in use in Oregon might interest this faculty member: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=mus%20

Hello! Here are 2 resources:
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1002&context=bc_oers
http://library.com.edu/PDF/Americagov/AmericanPopularMusic.pdf

I don't know if this would work, but it's worth a look:
https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/arts-textbooks/1/

Novels

Does anybody know of a repository of modern OER novels that might be appropriate for an American Literature or International Literature course? I have a faculty member who is teaching those courses who would like to use OER novels which might be of interest to students. They are already aware of public domain classics and wants something that students “might actually find interesting.”
I already thought of Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Amazon Free eBooks, and Barnes & Noble Free eBooks.
If anybody could maybe provide me with even just a website that has a list of authors (Cory Doctorow was the only one I knew of), I would deeply appreciate the help.

If your library has a subscription to JSTOR or another magazine database that goes back in time, even EBSCO Academic Search,  the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, and other literary magazines publish short stories and poems that are in fulltext. A few might even have a few serialized novels. I was able to find Flannery O’Connor short stories, for instance. They may not be OER but they would be free to access.

You might try https://unglue.it/
I see there are some novels there. But I haven’t read any of them. Still, worth a shot!

We offer The Internet Archive "Open Library" on our library website, having contemplated joining the organization then accepting their new open access during the pandemic.
Although not specifically an OER website, OER options are offered, depending on the book.  Cory Doctorow is well represented, for instance.  Check here:  https://openlibrary.org/
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Poetry

- What I initially sent to the instructor: 

I found an OpenLearn poetry course but the interface is so confusing that I hesitate to even recommend that you look at it. 

Project Gutenberg has a list of public domain poetry anthologies here: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Poetry_(Bookshelf)  and search results for "poetry anthology" here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=poetry+anthology&go=Go

- The instructor's wonderfully open-pedagogy-flavored reply:

Thanks! The more I think about it, the more I think I'll go ahead and commit to doing the class OER. And after all, I don't have to create it all ahead of time. I can have students research what the greatest poems are and help gather the texts. We learn better when we have choice and investment, after all, right? 

- Additional ideas from the listservs:
Heather Ross suggested Robin DeRosa's Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (not everything in the book is poetry). More info on the project: My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice. 
Kim Read suggested English Literature: Victorians and Moderns from BC Campus (contains other genres as well).
Jody Bailey suggested a google book search limited to before 1923. Search results (this is a long list!).
Cheryl Huff suggests a Bartleby poetry search and the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online (both are free but not open).

But wait, there's more...

Kristi Jensen suggested http://bartleby.com/verse/indexes.html and http://www.poemtree.com/index.html
Janelle Wertzberger sent a link to a course: http://eng111.iclarke.sites.gettysburg.edu/poetry/  

And the instructor shared Genius--originally a crowdsourcing tool for analyzing rap lyrics. But it's grown to become so much more and now has tons of classic poems, annotated by readers. https://genius.com/search?q=poetry

Cheryl Huff suggests a Bartleby poetry search and the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online (both are free but not open).

An instructor is looking for an openly licensed resource to teach diagramming sentences. He wants to replace this copyrighted book (free but not open, possibly posted in violation of copyright): http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/lwalton/files/diagramming%20workbook.pdf
I sent him links to open textbooks with chapters on sentences: Sentence Building, Sentence Style, Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence?. He'd really like to find an online resource that would teach students to diagram - maybe even something cool and interactive.

Amy, my husband teaches ESL and some of his students love diagramming sentences, so he sends these: 
https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/humanities/linguistics/wcn8207/diagramming-sentences  (interactive)
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams2/diagrams_frames.htm
http://www.german-latin-english.com/diagrams.htm

Technical Writing

Today in our English Faculty meeting we spoke about the possibility of shifting to a Technical Writing OER, so I thought I would ask if anyone is using an OER that they particularly love? 
 
This is the OER for Technical Writing developed by Amber Kinonen at Bay College: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zmt-NPk-0IEHNde_gJrzjk8ao2K4W1ksL1HBpDpaP9s/edit  

I did a pretty thorough search for our Tech Writing instructor last semester and parked the list in the OER libguide here.  Top left column.

This resource is also linked on Tina's libguide she sent, but I just wanted to add that we have several ACC faculty actively using the David McMurrey book.
https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/textbook/

Hi all, here's the link to the technical writing book developed at COCC and PCC: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/

They Say/I Say

Hi all, thank you for the excellent suggestions! The faculty member is going to look through the resources you all have shared. I won't pretend to have read them all, but in particular the Academic Phrasebank seems really useful in finding open/free alternatives to They Say/I Say (it is free but under copyright).
Here's the roundup of responses: 

Write Here, Right Now:  https://pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca/writehere/
Guide to Writing: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/styleguide/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalogs.lumenlearning.com%2Fcatalogs%2F1
English Comp I: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/engcomp1-wmopen/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalogs.lumenlearning.com%2Fcatalogs%2F1  
English Comp II: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp2kscopexmaster/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalogs.lumenlearning.com%2Fcatalogs%2F1
Writing in College: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence
About Writing: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/about-writing-a-guide   
Writing Spaces: http://writingspaces.org/  
Academic Phrasebank: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
CARS model of introductions handout: http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/SGN-16006/academic_writing/cars_model_handout.pdf
Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill: https://textbooks.opensuny.org/writi...to-excellence/ (in particular “Chapter 5: Listening to Sources, Talking to Sources”:  https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence/chapter/listening-to-sources-talking-to-sources/ )
English 100 (Freshman Composition) reader: https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/uwenglish100omnibus/

Workplace Communication and African American Literature

One of our instructors is looking OER course materials for ENG 340 (Workplace Communication) and ENG 219 (African American Literature ) courses.
We would really appreciate it if anyone can share any resources for these courses.

 Looks like there are lot good resources for your instructor to review:
OERCommons has a curated collection of Business Communications resources: https://oercommons.org/curated-collections/469
There's a text in the Open Textbook Library our instructors are using: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/8
plus, you can find a lot more just googling "business communications oer"
OERCommons has a curated collection of 6 African American Literature resources: https://louis.oercommons.org/curated-collections/112
plus, I found a nice list of additional resources just googling "african american literature oer"

Writing for Digital Media

Hello CCCOER! I have a faculty member who is considering OER for a course called Writing for Digital Media and would appreciate any open textbook suggestions.
Nothing stood out to me in OTN or Pressbooks Directory but perhaps I've missed a great resource?
He did find a books called Mobile and Social Media Journalism: A Practical Guide from Yumpu and asked if I had any knowledge of the platform,
which I do not, so I would also appreciate any wisdom on that site and its content. Looks like students would have to pay for platform access, which makes me leary.

We have recently built a common search portal through the 2000 texts (and collections) in the LibreTexts corpus. You may find things you are looking for there:

https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=media&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=

Writing the Research Paper

I have a faculty member at my college who is searching for OER in his English Critical Reasoning:  Writing the Research Paper course.  Here is his description of what he needs:
 It would be a rhetorical reader with activities and some content concerning researching/research writing.  More specifically, He would like something that addresses rhetoric, argumentation, logical fallacies, inventing/the writing process, and research writing, and which contains a selection of readings/examples/activities.  
Have him contact Brent Kendrick at LFCC - bkendrick@lfcc.edu  
 

You might have him contact Josh Sunderbruch (jsunderb@harpercollege.edu ). Josh has a resource he wrote and has been using for the English research paper course. The last time Josh and I spoke, it wasn't yet OER, but he was open to licensing it that way. Having a fellow faculty member from the discipline who is interested in the content might help move that along.


Check out the Excelsior OWL (https://owl.excelsior.edu/).

It has a section on researching (https://owl.excelsior.edu/research/  ) and rhetorical styles(https://owl.excelsior.edu/rhetorical-styles/ ) with examples and activities.

In Oregon that's WR 122. Here's what I know has been adopted for that course: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=wr%20122