Textbooks

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Writing Online Textbooks and Resources (OER)
Bad Ideas About Writing
Writing Commons
Writing Spaces
Writing for Success

Public Speaking Online Textbooks (OER)
Speak Out, Call In
Stand Up, Speak Out

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1) Tuman and Fraleigh, Speak Up!
2) Sprague and Stuart, Speaker’s Handbook
3) O’Hair et al. The Speaker’s Guidebook (brief or pocket version)
4) Valenzano and Braden, The Speaker
4) O’Brien, Speak Well.
5) Speak Out, Call In
6) Stand Up, Speak Out

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1) Elements of Argument, Rottenberg (Bedford/St. Martin’s)*
2) Essentials of Argument, Wood (Longman)
3) Everything’s an Argument, Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
4) From Critical Thinking to Argument, Barnet and Bedau (Bedford/St. Martin’s)*
5) Good Reasons, Faigley and Selzer (Longman)
6) Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments, Faigley and Selzer (Longman)*
7) Perspectives on Argument, Wood (Longman)*
8) The Structure of Argument, Rottenberg (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
9) They Say, I Say, Graff, Birkenstock, and Durst (Norton)—may want to supplement with some additional materials on argumentation*
10) Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings OR Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings, Concise Edition, Ramage, Bean, and Johnson (Longman)*
11) The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing (can also choose “brief” or “concise” editions), Ramage, Bean, and Johnson (Longman)**
12) Bad Ideas About Writing
13) Writing Commons
14) Writing Spaces
15) Writing for Success

Readers (use only if rhetoric contains few or no readings; choose one):
1) Argument in America, Selzer (Longman)
2) Classic and Contemporary Arguments, Barnet and Bedau (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
3) New World Reader, Muller (Houghton Mifflin)
4) The Writer’s Presence, McQuade and Atwan (Bedford/St. Martin’s)

Style Guide:
1) A Pocket Style Manual, Hacker (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
2) Rules for Writers, Hacker (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
3) A Writer’s Reference, Hacker and Sommers (Bedford/St. Martin’s)

Optional:
1) Research Writing Simplified, Clines and Cobb (Longman)

*A separate reader is not required with this text.

**The full-length and “brief” editions contain a substantial number of readings (so no separate reader required). The “concise” edition contains few readings, so order a separate reader to supplement that edition.

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1) Reading Rhetorically, Brief, Bean, Chappell, and Gillam (Longman)
2) A Sequence for Academic Writing, Behrens and Rosen (Longman)
3) Writing Analytically, Rosenwasser and Stephen (Wadsworth)
4) Writing Analytically with Readings, Rosenwasser and Stephen (Wadsworth)*
5) Writing from Sources, Spatt (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
6) Bad Ideas About Writing
7) Writing Commons
8) Writing Spaces
9) Writing for Success

*A separate reader is not required with this text.

Readers:
1) Cultural Conversations, Dilks, Hansen, and Parfitt (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
2) Fields of Reading, Comley et al. (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
3) New Humanities Reader, Miller and Spellmeyer (Wadsworth)
4) Reading the World, Austin (Norton)
5) Ways of Reading, Bartholomae and Petrosky (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
6) A World of Ideas, Jacobus (Bedford/St. Martin’s)

Style Guides:
1) Rhetorical Grammar, Kolln and Gray (Longman)
2) Style, Williams (Longman)
3) The Writer’s Options, Morenberg and Sommers (Longman)

Note: Students should already have a handbook such as A Pocket Style Manual, Rules for Writers, or A Writer’s Reference. If they do not, they should purchase Hacker’s A Pocket Style Manual.

Optional:
1) Research Writing Simplified, Clines and Cobb (Longman)

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Rhetorics:
1) A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings, Wilhoit (Longman)
2) Essentials of Academic Writing, Soles (Wadsworth)
3) From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader, Greene and Lidinsky (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
4) Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum (full or brief version), Behrens and Rosen (Longman)
5) A Sequence for Academic Writing, Behrens and Rosen (Longman)
6) Bad Ideas About Writing
7) Writing Commons
8) Writing Spaces
9) Writing for Success

Reader:
1) Fields of Reading, Comley et al. (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
2) New Humanities Reader, Miller and Spellmeyer (Wadsworth)
3) Reading the World, Austin (Norton)
4) Ways of Reading, Bartholomae and Petrosky (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
5) A World of Ideas, Jacobus (Bedford/St. Martin’s)

Note: Students should also purchase (or already have) a style manual and/or handbook covering matters of form, mechanics, and documentation. If students do not yet have this kind of text, you may recommend Hacker’s A Pocket Style Manual, Rules for Writers, or Hacker and Sommers’ A Writer’s Reference.

Optional:
1) Research Writing Simplified, Clines and Cobb (Longman)