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,…