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Final reflection at the end of semester as OER liaison to English
When I posted at the beginning of the semester I talked about how I wasn’t sure how useful OERs were to English Department faculty. So much of what we do, in writing classes in particular, is to guide student writing. This takes time but doesn’t require a lot in terms of materials or resources. Students often write about texts, for instance, but those can be anything and most teachers don’t require students to purchase expensive reading anthologies. There are writing guides one might assign, but often these are often too generic, too long, and not targeted to our students–in addition to being costly. I think most teachers feel pretty comfortable…
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Introduction and thoughts about OERs in Composition classes
Hi, this is Rachel, from the English Department. OERs in writing classes are a little tricky because the “content” of Composition is a matter of significant disagreement. One school of thought is that “academic writing” means engaging with “academic reading,” which means students should read challenging material centered around some academic topic and develop thesis-driven essays using that material. But… many have challenged this definition of academic writing given that writing produced by people in the academy and by students in disciplines takes many different forms and often is not characterized by responding to and/or analyzing and/or synthesizing published texts. An alternative has been to substitute scholarly texts about writing,…
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