About the Book
Welcome to Freshman Composition: With an Emphasis on Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing, and Open Educational Resource developed by your professor, Teresa Gonzalez, with the support of Alamo District Colleges. This textbook contains instructional content explaining concepts important to English composition and college writing.
Note for Students on Style Guidelines
This anthology draws its content from a variety of sources, many of which adhere to style rules other than those of the Modern Language Association (MLA). What is a style guideline? It is a standardized set of rules for formatting documents, citing sources, and structuring content to ensure clarity, consistency, and academic integrity in writing.
In your own writing this semester, you are expected to follow MLA style guidelines. It is useful to be aware, however, that different fields of study and/or publication types have their own norms that they follow. For example, news periodicals use Associated Press (AP) style, the social sciences use American Psychological Association (APA) style, and general publications use Chicago Manual of Style. If you are unsure how to format something, consult the MLA Style website for clarification.
The author is indebted to the following OER resources for instructional content and exercises:
- 1, 2, 3 Write! by Gay Monteverde, licensed CC BY-NC-SA
- Composition in Cultural Contexts: Writing Within and Across Modalities and Subjectivities by Andy Gurevich, licensed CC BY
- College Composition by Tulsa Community College, licensed CC BY-NC-SA
- Excelsior Online Writing Lab, licensed CC BY
- From College to Career: A Handbook for Student Writers by Christina Frasier, Darren Meritz, and Melissa Elston, licensed CC BY-SA
- Handbook for Writers by Saylor Academy, licensed CC BY-NC-SA
- Let’s Get Writing! by Elizabeth Browning, Kirsten DeVries, Kathy Boylan, Jenifer Kurtz, and Katelyn Burton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA
- Mindful Technical Writing: An Introduction to the Fundamentals by Dawn Atkinson, licensed CC BY-NC-SA
- Oregon Writes Open Writing Text by Jenn Kepka, licensed CC BY
- Putting the Pieces Together: Reason and Writing for Success by Andrew M. Stracuzzi and André Cormier, licensed CC BY-NC-SA
- Writing for Inquiry and Research by Jeffrey Kessler, Charitianne Williams, Virginia Costello, and Annie R. Armstrong, licensed CC BY-NC
- Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill, licensed CC BY-NC-SA
- Writing Rhetorically: Framing First Year Writing by Kirk Fontenot, Shelly Rodrigue, Wanda M. Waller, and Will Rogers, licensed CC BY
The specific source for any given content, as well as its licensing details, will be found at the bottom of the page in question.
