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Open Educational Resources

A "getting started" guide overviewing open, editable, and lower-cost textbooks and open teaching & learning resources for faculty, students, and librarians.

English

Writing

In Effectiveness in Writing, readers will learn how to evaluate and write argumentative essays and continue to develop and strengthen knowledge of research and citation.
Writing Commons

Literature, The Humanities, and Humanity (CC BY-NC-SA) SUNYOpenTextbooks

The Process of Research Writing (CC BY-NC-SA) 

Research, Analysis and Writing 

Additional Open Textbooks

English (from BCCampus)

Writing & Humanities (from Univ of MN)

English Composition (from CollegeOpenTextbooks)

Additional Course Materials

MIT Open Courseware on literature (CC BY NC SA)

English Composition I CC BY (Saylor Foundation)

Writing Spaces (licenses vary)

Online Writing Lab (Purdue) - (c) All Rights Reserved

See Also

TED Talks (CC BY NC-ND) on literature

Guide to Finding Interesting Works in the Public Domain Online

HathiTrust Digital Library (7 million volumes, 1 billion pages. 1200s-Present)

Project Gutenberg (45,000+ books in the public domain)

Early English Books Online (public domain) (digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700)