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OPAL: Write What Matters
Subject: Other Humanities & Arts
Book Language: English
Book Cover: https://idaho.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4/2020/09/Write-What-Matters-Cover-3-350x525.jpg
Created date: February 27, 2020
Updated date: May 10, 2022
Target Release Date: 2021-05-01
License:
- Attribution
- Non-Commercial
- Share Alike
Needs:
- Contributors
- Adopters
- Copyeditors
Description:
Our primary student audience consists of students enrolled in ENGL 101 and/or ENGL 102 courses at any of Idaho’s two or four year colleges and universities. This audience also includes Idaho dual credit high school students who are enrolled in ENGL 101 and/or ENGL 102. Secondary audiences include Idaho’s GEM 1 written communication instructors as well as any instructors interested in a comprehensive guide to first-year writing.
Short Description:
Read
Write What Matter
s
here! GEM Guidebooks are curated collections of open educational resources
that
align with
the common learning outcomes maintained by Idaho’s General Education Committee
. These Open Guidebooks, once completed, will function as open rich collections of recommended OER to support instructors and students in general education courses. This GEM Guidebook—Writing and Rhetoric—addresses the first-year writing experience in Idaho. The faculty who are leading this effort
consult the
General Education Matriculation (GEM) learning outcomes for Written Communication
learning outcomes to guide recommendations for instructional materials, student models, suggested readings, learning activities, pedagogical approaches, and more. In the spirit of inclusive design, this project also prioritizes lifelong portability and accessibility for English language learners.
Outline
Section One: Use flexible writing process strategies to generate, develop, revise, edit, and proofre
Section Two: Adopt strategies and genres appropriate to the rhetorical situation.
Section Three: Use inquiry-based strategies to conduct research that explores multiple and diverse i
Section Four: Use rhetorically appropriate strategies to evaluate, represent, and respond to the ide
Section Five: Address readers’ biases and assumptions with well-developed evidence-based reasoning.
Section Six: Use appropriate conventions for integrating, citing, and documenting source materials a
Supplemental Resources
ELL Learner Resources, MLA & APA Documentation Style Guides,
Academic Integrity / Plagiarism Resources, Grammar Resources, Writing Templates, Glossary
