The textbooks for a composition course generally comprise a rhetoric, a collection of readings, and an English handbook. At this time, the FYW Program requires adjunct instructors to choose from one of several options for the collection of readings and one of three options for the English Handbook. Since there is currently no standard rhetoric assigned for either course, many instructors use their own materials, sections from an English Handbook, or Open Education Resource rhetorics, including selections from the Purdue OWL and other Web-based online writing labs to take the place of a standard rhetoric. Most instructors also choose to supplement the readings from the assigned text for the course with additional readings taken from a variety of sources, for instance The New York Times. Please consult the FYW/OER Open Lab Site for OER texts. Information about textbooks for FYW courses is below. Desk and review copies of books are also available for instructors. Please consult Dr. Nina Bannett for desk and review copies.
Ordering books for your course: Because of some communication issues with the college bookstore, full-time faculty now have a bookstore liaison, who collects the orders for your courses and submits them personally to the bookstore. This is a time-sensitive issue, as the English department liaison must have the information to give it to the bookstore; the bookstore must receive your requests in order to process and order them from the publisher; and the college is legally bound to provide the information on its website to students.
Introduction to Composition/ENG1101 Collections of Readings
City Tech ENG1101 FYW OER Readers
Advanced Composition/ENG1121 Collections of Readings
City Tech ENG1121 FYW OER Readers
Lead, Follow, Or Move Out of the Way
Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
Professor Rodgers’ Open Access Rhetoric
Involved: Writing for College, Writing for Yourself by Charles Bazerman
The Informed Writer by Charles Bazerman
Professor Rodgers’ Open Access English Handbook
