Literature and Writing
On this page you will find several open Literature and Writing textbooks along with supplemental material and a few lecture 
videos.
The purpose of these discipline specific pages is to showcase content that might be of interest to faculty who are considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes. This list of content is by no means exhaustive. The nature of open educational resources is very collaborative and it is in that spirit that we encourage any comments about the content featured on this page or recommendations of content that are not already listed here.
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Textbooks
- About Writing: A Guide byPublication Date: 2016
- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity byPublication Date: 2013
- A Rhetoric of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 1 byPublication Date: 2013
- A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 2 byPublication Date: 2013
American Literature
- Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present byPublication Date: 2015
British & Irish Literature
- English Literature: Victorians and Moderns byPublication Date: 2014
- The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories? byPublication Date: 2014
College Writing
- EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers byPublication Date: 2018
- Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence byPublication Date: 2016
- Writing for Success byPublication Date: 2011
- Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis byPublication Date: 2012
English Composition
- Writing Spaces Web Writing Style Guide byPublication Date: 2011
- Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Vol. I byPublication Date: 2010
- Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Vol. II byPublication Date: 2011
Gender Studies (Literature)
- Patriarchal Moments : Reading Patriarchal Texts byPublication Date: 2015
- Feminist Moments : Reading Feminist Texts byPublication Date: 2015
Research Writing & Professional Writing
- The Process of Research Writing byPublication Date: 2007
- Research Writing in a Persuasive ModePublication Date: 2010
- Writing for Strategic Communication Industries byPublication Date: 2016
- Technical Writing byPublication Date: 2016
World Literature
- Compact Anthology of World Literature byPublication Date: 2016
- World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650 byPublication Date: 2015
- The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern byPublication Date: 2013
Writing Centers & Programs
- Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies byPublication Date: 2015
- Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places byPublication Date: 2012
- WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions byPublication Date: 2015
Writing Instruction
- Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom byPublication Date: 2017
- Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom byPublication Date: 2011
- Critical Expressivism: Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom byPublication Date: 2014
- Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing byPublication Date: 2010
- Working With Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice byPublication Date: 2015
- Foundational Practices of Online Writing InstructionPublication Date: 2015
- The Centrality of Style byPublication Date: 2013
- Beyond Argument: Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change byPublication Date: 2015
- Placing the History of College Writing: Stories from the Incomplete Archive byPublication Date: 2015
- Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy byPublication Date: 2015
- Handbook for Writers byPublication Date: 2012