Online Educational Resources
The City Tech English Department is currently transitioning from using textbooks toward using Online Educational Resources, or OER’s. Faculty are encouraged to adopt OER materials in consultation with the director of first year writing, Robert LestĂłn. In addition, the City Tech library has ongoing fellowships to train faculty in OER adoption. The link will bring you to the library’s OER resources page.
Sample City Tech FYW OER Reader — Writing through the Rhetorical Modes (Under Construction)
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After shaking up writing classrooms at more than 450 colleges and universities, Understanding Rhetoric, the comic-style guide to writing that instructors have told us gets “nothing but positive responses from students,” has returned for a second edition! Combining the composition know-how of Liz Losh and Jonathan Alexander with the comic-art credibility of Kevin Cannon (Far Arden, Crater XV) and Zander Cannon (Heck, Kaijumax), Understanding Rhetoricencourages deep engagement with core concepts of writing and rhetoric, as teachers and students alike have told us. With a new chapter on collaboration, unique coverage of writerly identity, and extensive discussions of rhetoric, reading, argument, research, revision, and presenting work to audiences, the one and only composition comic covers what students need to know—and does so with fun and flair. A new “Walk the Talk” feature in each chapter helps students see how to put concepts to use in their own reading and writing. And the detailed instructor’s manual will help both novice and experienced instructors plan a course around Understanding Rhetoric.
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Lead, Follow or Move out of the Way, 4th edition. Authors: Monique Ferrell, Julian Williams, and Ruth Garcia.
This collection is full of provocative, insightful, opinionated, and sometimes thoroughly disturbing pieces. Unlike the customary organization of anthologies—by genre, geography, or historical period—the thematic organization of the readings in Lead, Follow, or Move Out of the Way creates a truly global perspective, one which is both timeless and timely, as the reader can see how the most perplexing socio-political issues know no bounds.
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Literature for Composition, 11th edition. Authors: Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William E. Cain, &
Cheryl Nixon.
With an emphasis on critical thinking and argument, Literature for Composition is organized around eight thought-provoking themes. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the skills emphasized in their discussions of communication are relevant not only to literature courses, but to all courses in which students analyze texts or write arguments.
Handbooks
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