Additional Offerings
Beyond what’s already hosted inside the Lumen platform, many OER buckets, large and small, contain useful material for English Composition courses. We keep a running list of resources we discover in the wild. If you have suggestions to add here, please share on the Lumen Community “English” Slack Channel!
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License
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Notes
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Complete Courses
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Composition I & II
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Maricopa Millions Project
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CC BY
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- complete courses in Canvas
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English Composition I
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Open Course Library WA SBCTC
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CC BY
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- complete course in Google Drive
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English Composition II
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Open Course Library WA SBCTC
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CC BY
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- complete course in Google Drive
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Open Texts
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Writing Guide
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SUNY Geneseo
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CC BY
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Writing Hub
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Boundless
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CC BY SA
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Grounds for Argument
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University of Virginia Alumni Association
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CC BY NC SA
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- argument & persuasion online text
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Research, Analysis, and Writing
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American Public University
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CC BY NC SA
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Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence
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Open SUNY Textbooks
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CC BY NC SA
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Writing Spaces Vols. 1 & 2
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Writing Spaces
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CC BY NC SA or CC BY NC ND
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- instructional essays about the craft of writing
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Writing in College
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The University of Chicago
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CC BY NC ND
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Writing Commons
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Writing Commons
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CC BY NC ND
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- online text
- an update to the website in summer 2016 makes it appear as if all pages are copyrighted. However, they are all still openly licensed, according to the FAQs
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Reading Material
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LibriVox
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LibriVox
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Public Domain
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- audio recordings of works of literature
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg
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Public Domain
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- text files of works of literature and nonfiction
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Project Gutenberg Australia
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Project Gutenberg Australia
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Public Domain (Australian)
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- similar to the original Project Gutenberg, PGA offers public domain literature and nonfiction
- due to different copyright laws, they have different options available from Project Gutenberg; however, make sure your selections are legally useable in the US
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Lit2Go
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University of South Florida
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Special Terms of Use
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- literature MP3s and PDFs
- supplemental instructional material
- “A maximum of twenty-five (25) MP3 and/or text files may be used in any non-commercial, educational project (report, presentation, display, website, etc.) without special permission. The use of more than twenty-five MP3 and/or text files in a single project requires written permission from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) at USF.”
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The Conversation
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The Conversation
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CC BY NC ND
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- current events blog written by academics, updated daily
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Grammar
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Polysyllabic
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Karl Hagen
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CC BY NC SA
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Resources
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Improve Your Writing
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University of British Columbia Writing Commons
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CC BY
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- articles, blog, and toolkits from writing center
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The Five Features of Effective Writing
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Learn NC
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CC BY NC SA
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- article series, written for instructors
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Reading / Writing / Vocabulary
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TV411
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CC BY NC SA
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- videos and print materials are openly licensed. Other instructional material online is free, but not open
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Writing Fellows
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City University of New York, School of Professional Studies
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CC BY NC SA
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- articles for students and instructors
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University Writing Center
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Texas A&M University
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CC BY NC ND
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- handouts for writing-related issues
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Walden University Writing Center
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Walden University
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CC BY NC ND
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- blog written by instructors and editors
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The Writing Center
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UNC-Chapel Hill
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CC BY NC ND
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- handouts for writing-related issues
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