JCC's OER Textbooks
Recent Submissions
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American Literature 2
(Lumen Learning, 2017-10)American Literature 2 is a standard post-Civil-War anthology. Heavily adapted from the Lumen course shell original, the book emphasizes well-integrated literary analysis writing and has several chapters focused on MLA and ... -
Practical Foundations and Principles for Teaching
(2021-04-18)This text is a basic principles of education blended with theories of learning and foundations of education materials. It is geared toward elementary education majors just starting their teaching journeys and is meant to ... -
Reading African American Literature
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Readings in Children's Literature
(2019-12)Readings in Children's Literature includes essay material on children's literature, as well as tales, verse, folklore, and short stories. -
Survey of Native American Literature
(SUNY Press, 2018-04)This survey textbook overviews Native American literature from its origins in poems and creation myths of the continent's hundreds of Native cultures. Texts are organized with major sections on creation myths, fiction, ... -
Guide to Creating Open Educational Resources: A Humanities Approach
(Lumen Learning, 2020-03)This Open Education Resource "goes meta" by being about itself. Taking a Humanities approach necessarily involves textual analysis, and so this is a short book of design tips from the point of view of this field of knowledge. ... -
American Literature I
(Lumen Learning, 2018)American Literature I combines a textbook covering literary analysis and literary critical theory, basic research methods in the humanities, and a chronological reader of diverse selections in American Literature. The ... -
World Literature
(Lumen Learning, 2018)World Literature covers a range of world fiction and nonfiction readings, including coverage of trickster tales, origin myths, memoirs, novels, short stories, and poems. Focus is on Native American, Japanese, Chinese, and ... -
College Writing Handbook
(SUNY Press, 2018-07)This PDF focuses on college-level writing, critical reading, and research challenges. This College Writing Handbook is a modified version of the Guide to Writing by Vallerie Mott and a writer listed as "Alexis." The ... -
Arguing Through Writing
(Lumen Learning, 2020-04)Arguing Through Writing is heavily adapted from the Lumen Learning English Composition 2 book on the SUNY OER list of texts. The textbook focuses on the writing process, as well as rhetorical modes. Emphasis is on the ... -
Space Mythos: Science Fiction
(SUNY Press, 2020-06)Space Mythos is a science fiction reader and literature textbook. It overviews MLA citation, literary analysis, and academic writing moves. This Open Educational Resources text is designed to accompany other science fiction ... -
Studies in Mythology
(SUNY Press, 2018-11)Studies in Mythology is an introductory text for a survey of myth course. It can be organized chronologically, geographically, or thematically. Included are sections from Frazier's study of myth, The Golden Bough, as ... -
Literary Voice
(SUNY Press, 2019-12)Literary Voice overviews the conventions of short stories, poems, dramatic works, and novels. The text features several chapters on the writing process and is focused on getting students to experience literature. Sections ... -
Technical Writing Strategies
(SUNY Press, 2017-10)Strategies in Technical Writing is an Open Education Resource text designed for community-college-level students being introduced to technical writing conventions. The text focuses on the main genres involved in professional ...