Faculty who go through the Professional Faculty Development training program will be using zero-cost readings for their courses. For those who are not going through program, the following texts are the current list for teaching ENG 1101. The use of textbooks will eventually be phased out. We especially encourage zero textbook cost, if possible, during the pandemic.
From memes to resumes, fairy tales to researched arguments, in a striking full-color visual design, The Bedford Book of Genres invites students to unpack how genres work in order to experiment with their own compositions. After capturing the imagination of instructors and students in its successful first edition, the second edition incorporates extensive reviewer feedback to better teach students the rhetorical analysis skills they need to read and compose in any situation. To start the text, the Guide now includes a new Part One that lays out the book’s key concepts–rhetorical situation, the elements of a genre, and multimodal composing–and a substantially revised Part Two with examples arranged by academic, workplace, and public contexts. Throughout the text, Guided Readings provide opportunities to analyze the rhetorical situations and conventions of common public and academic genres, while Guided Process sections follow the decisions that five real students made as they worked in multiple genres and media.
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They Say / I Say : The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing. 4th edition. Authors: Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff.
They Say / I Say teaches students the rhetorical moves found in persuasive writing across all disciplines. The authors focus on the central rhetorical move that gives the book its title: how to begin with what others have said (“they say”) in order to set up one’s own argument (“I say”). The approach is practical and effective, and the language is engaging and jargon-free. ($27.50)
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The Place Where we Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City. 3rd edition. Authors: Juanita But, Mark Noonan, Sean Scanlan.
The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City encourages the reader to explore the city in all of its complexity. Students taking their first or second composition class might approach writing and critical thinking as overwhelming, much like New York City to the newcomer. The Place Where We Dwell contextualizes critical reading, writing, and thinking, while exploring the city some call home. ($44.00)
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