Open Educational Resources: English & Writing
Open Textbooks
- About Writing: A GuideCondenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students.
- Business Communication for SuccessProvides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.
- Business English for SuccessProvides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
- Business Writing - Lumen LearningAllows students to develop effective written communication strategies specifically for the workplace. From idea gathering to drafting to delivery, this course will prepare students to write a variety of documents, including memos, letters, and reports, tailored to professional audiences.
- College Success - Lumen LearningProvides resources for first-year college students on the path to academic and life success. Time management, effective methods of communication, career exploration, and practical tools for academic achievement are a few of the topic areas covered.
- Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language LearnersDesigned for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities.
- Composition Reader - Lumen LearningContains an anthology of readings for Composition I course.
- Developmental Writing - Lumen LearningIntroduces students to the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing.
- English Composition I - Lumen LearningComposition I focuses on principles of writing, critical reading and essay composition using rhetorical styles common in college-level writing (narrative, example/illustration, compare/contrast, cause-and-effect, argument).
- English Composition II - Lumen LearningTeaches research skills by emphasizing the development of advanced analytical/critical reading skills, proficiency in investigative research, and the writing of persuasive prose including documented and researched argumentative essays.
- Frameworks for Academic WritingPresents a different way of teaching writing to students. The method is “writing with the teacher present” or simply students doing ALL their writing in class. This way of teaching writing is more like athletic practice than class. Students practice writing while the coach (professor or instructor) was around to break steps down into smaller and smaller elements and to help them learn the skills “in real time.
- Rhetoric and Composition: A Guide for the College WriterDesigned for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as a practical guide for students struggling to bring their writing up to the level expected of them by their professors and instructors.
- Technical Writing - Lumen LearningFocuses on the organization, development, and refinement of technical communications. Internal and external communications, including letters, memos, reports, and presentations are included.
- Writing CommonsFree, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research.
- Writing for SuccessProvides 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 ExcellenceDesigned 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. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes. It provides a friendly, down-to-earth introduction to professors’ goals and expectations, demystifying the norms of the academy and how they shape college writing assignments.
LCC Library Resources
The Library provides access to databases that contain e-books, e-journals, images, videos, etc. that can be used to supplement textbooks and other course materials. To learn more, see the following:
Advantages of ebooks include:
- accessible 24/7 from anywhere with your username and password
- can search the text of the book to find information
- never any library fines