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Equitable Access Textbooks (Beginning Fall 2023)

Equitable Access Textbook Program

With the new BookSmart program, in order for students to have access to it, you must submit the materials as “REQUIRED” when submitting to the bookstore. If it’s only “RECOMMENDED” then the bookstore will not include it in their $249 semester fee and students will need to purchase it separately.

Beginning in Fall 2023, undergraduates will pay a $249 Equitable Access Fee that pays for access to all their textbooks. Students can opt out, but the cost is tucked into their tuition and fee bill, so they probably will not.

From the faculty end, when we adopt a book, the first option will be the digital version delivered via Red Shelf or Bypass. Even if you request an older edition of a book, Follett will assign the most recent edition. If no digital version is available, Follett will provide physical copies. Jorge Cardena, the Inclusive Access Manager, claims this includes novels. We can, of course, continue to use OERs and to create our own Pressbooks.

Thus far only Cengage has a contract with the university whereby any one adoption of a Cengage textbook will give students access to all Cengage textbooks (see attached flyer about Cengage Unlimited). Students can also rent hard copies of Cengage textbooks for $9.99. Other publishers may do the same.

Although it might seem that the cost of books is now unimportant, Jorge mentioned that in Summer of 2024, the university will perform a cost analysis, and they could possibly raise the $249 fee if the cost of purchasing textbooks was greater than the amount students paid in.

ENGLISH 1310 AND 1320 HANDBOOKS

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  • The College Writer

    Cengage has all-access, so if you adopt one Cengage text, you can use all of them for no additional cost. Our Cengage rep is Brandi Funk, brandi.funk@cengage.com

    Textbook Subcommittee's Comments:

    OVERALL: Excellent overall

    CONTENT: Sheer comprehensiveness is impressive and compelling; love discussion of reading practices for videos and images; appreciate "DIY" assignments aligning writing genre or mode with assignments for major essays (section II); lots of options for readings, guide, and handbook; best section on doing primary research I've seen (love that it includes analyzing texts, artifacts, etc. as a kind of primary research like EasyWriter).

    EASE OF USE/TECHNOLOGY: Platform seems user friendly; easy integration to Canvas' doesn't integrate with Perusall, unfortunately, but not a deal breaker.

    TEACHER RESOURCES: Ample

    1. has all the key information needed

    2. lots of solid text

    3. helpful ‘check list’ in strategies

    4. the online (ebook) doesn’t have great interface, especially compared to the others

    5. doesn’t feel very engaging

    Solid text with clear explanations of the writing process and writing across different disciplines. I think the Quick Review section is particularly helpful since teachers could assign specific sections based on gaps in a student's knowledge after assessing their first essay.

    To link The College Writer and Canvas . . . 

    1. Open your Canvas course.
    2. Add the Cengage app to your course navigation if it is not already listed.

    The app is copied when you copy a Canvas course.

    1. From the course navigation, click Settings > Navigation.
    2. Drag the Cengage app to the course navigation.
    3. Click Save.
    4. From the course navigation, click Cengage.

    If you get an error message when you click Cengage, see LTI Advantage.

    1.  

    If you don't have a Cengage instructor account, request one here.

    1. Click Add eBook.
    2. Search for your textbook by title, author, or ISBN.
    3. To select an item, click Link to Course.

     

     

     

  • EasyWriter, 8th edition, by Andrea Lunsford. 

    You access your e-book copy of EasyWriter . . . 

    1. Contact  Maggie Rutsch | Senior Product and Technology Specialist, HSS - TX | C 918.406.8053
    2. Go to VitalSource.
    3. Log in or follow the instructions to create an account. (Please use the email address that was used to receive this sample.)
    4. Once you're in, bookmark your Bookshelf so it's easy to find when you're ready to return to your e-book!

    Here's a video of how to add the ebook from a totally blank Canvas course through adding the ebook. 

    Add the eBook to your Canvas course.

  • OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook is a free, open educational resource for English Composition and First-Year Writing courses. Michelle Bachelor Robinson of Spelman College, Maria Jerskey of Baruch College, and an additional 11 contributors developed the book to help students navigate difficult conversations through their writing. Cultural awareness is a defined outcome of the text, and is made evident through the representation of diverse contributors to the fields of literature and other forms of art and communication. Each chapter includes works from writers of different backgrounds, time periods, and perspectives. The nature of language as an element of identity, as well as invitations into discussions about language and its cultural and societal implications, are consistent elements of the material. Available at https://openstax.org/blog/about-writing-guide-with-handbook-a-book-for-english-composition

     

English 1320 READERS

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  • EmpoWord by Shane Abrams is an OER textbook, copyrighted to allow revisions.  It is available as a PDF,  as a DOC file, and in html. 

    Here is the link:  https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/20/. 

     

  • Ede, Lisa. The Academic Writer: A Brief Rhetoric, 4/e. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-319-0372-08.  $82.40

  • Crusius, T.W. and C. Channell. The Aims of Argument, 8/e. McGraw-Hill, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-260-09465-0. $104.09

  • Barnet, S. and H. Bedau. Current Issues and Enduring Questions, 12/e. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-31919818-3. $94.45

  • Lunsford, A. and J. Ruszkiewicz. Everything’s an Argument/with readings, 9/e. Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-319-24448-4.  $74.99

  • Johnson, J. Global Issues, Local Arguments, 3/e. Pearson Longman, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-205-88615-9. $113.32

  • Muller, G. The McGraw-Hill Reader, 12/e. McGraw Hill, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-073-40598-8.  $117.55

  • Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say/I Say with Readings, 4/e. Norton, 2018. 978-0-393-63168-5

  • Kennedy, M.L. and W.J. Kennedy. Writing in the Disciplines, 7/e. Pearson Longman, 2011. ISBN: 978-0205726622. $126.65

ENGLISH 1310 READERS

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  • Cooley, T. Back to the Lake, 4/e. Norton, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-393-42072-2. $50.25

     

  • Carpini, D. Conversations: Readings for Writing, 8/e. Pearson Longman, 2012. ISBN: 0-2058-3511-2. $106.65

  • If you'd like to teach with this Custom course (Easy Writer 8e AND  Emerging 5e) and utilize one OR both of those titles within Achieve, please send us:

    1. Name & email address

    2. Sections you're teaching

    We will send you a template of the course and make sure that the bookstore will code your Fall 23 sections correctly for your students.

    My best,

    LK

    Laci Kolle | Exec Sales Rep | C 830.456.6270

    Customer service 1-866-843-3715| Technical Support  800-936-6899

    To access your e-book copy of Emerging . . . 

    1. Contact  Maggie Rutsch | Senior Product and Technology Specialist, HSS - TX | C 918.406.8053
    2. Go to VitalSource.
    3. Log in or follow the instructions to create an account. (Please use the email address that was used to receive this sample.)
    4. Once you're in, bookmark your Bookshelf so it's easy to find when you're ready to return to your e-book!

    Here's a video of how to add the ebook from a totally blank Canvas course through adding the ebook. 

    Add the eBook to your Canvas course.

  • The book:

    The ISBN for Everyone’s an Author With Readings (Custom): 978-1-324-05796-3

    Per the subcommittee's request, Norton is adding essays by Anzaldúa and Zamudio-Suarez into this customized edition

    The subcommittee's comments:

    Technology & Extras

    • Platform is easy to integrate links to content with Canvas, and the eBook is user friendly. For me, the InQuizitive stuff is pretty useless. While InQuizitive does sync to the Canvas grade book, they're too in depth, the grading is too complicated, and they aren't customizable. 
    • I'm not sure I understand the Tumblr. Maybe I'm just not cool enough.
    • Works with Perusall.
    • The Little Seagull Handbook is sufficient.

    Content 

    • I love the "Mixing Languages & Dialects" chapter (also included in Let's Talk). This approach to style foregrounds linguistic diversity and inclusi
    • I selected this over LT, in part, because of the expanded discussion of reading, especially "fast--and slow--reading" and reference to "reading like a writer." (I use a speed reading vs. slow reading activity in my own classroom to kick off the semester, so this was familiar for me.)
    • Personally, I also love that it includes more genre-focused chapters, each of which includes "characteristic features" and a roadmap for writing. For me, these are extremely helpful in crafting assignments and rubrics. 
    • The resources in The Little Seagull Handbook for things like paragraph development are helpful. 
    • The tradeoff: while Everyone's an Author has the expanded rhetoric and writing guide, it has fewer readings. They're great, but it was disappointing to lose pieces like Anzaldúa and Zamudio-Suarez included in Let's Talk. If Everyone's an Author had the "What's Language Got to Do with It?" readings, it would be my number one choice, no contest. NOTE: The customized edition contains the essays by Anzaldúa and Zamudio-Suarez. 

    Our Norton book reps' notes:

    All copies of Everyone’s an Author with Readings has access to the Little Seagull Handbook and InQuizitive! We would just have to make sure that your department submits the book as courseware!

    This also means that instructors would have to add a link to their modules in canvas—this is a really easy process and I and my team would walk everyone through the steps. Since students would be in equitable access with digital, there would be no code.

    Katie

    Katie Sisk (she/her)

    Senior Sales Representative

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    M 210-607-0432

    ksisk@wwnorton.com

    wwnorton.com

    Good afternoon!

    As an adopter of the new edition of Everyone's an Author, we wanted to thank you and offer in-service trainings for you and your department to learn more about the resources available with the new edition.

    This training can be anytime during the Summer or before the start of classes in the Fall.  Our goal is simply to make sure everyone has what they need to have a successful launch of the new edition when classes begin.

    As a former classroom teacher, I do think that there are some benefits of having a face-to-face training, we can also plan virtual trainings as well.

    Katie Sisk and I just wanted to get this on your radar for consideration before the crush of end of semester activity begins.

     Let us know what you think.

    Best,

    Vic

     

  • Eschholz, P. Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers, 13/e. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-31930758-5. $77.99

  • Let's Talk features an anthology of 32 readings reflect a range of perspectives—between those readings and the epigraphs and examples, it features over 200 different voices in total! The five thematic reading chapters pose questions about important issues: The inequities that bedevil us. What’s language got to do with it? What’s news? Who owns nature? Do sports matter?

    The Little Seagull Handbook is included for no additional cost

    Subcommittee Comments:

    Technology & Extras

    • Platform is easy to integrate links to content with Canvas, and the eBook is user friendly. For me, the InQuizitive stuff is pretty useless. While InQuizitive does sync to the Canvas grade book, they're too in depth, the grading is too complicated, and they aren't customizable. 
    • I appreciate the additional readings and filters for genre and medium. Much more user friendly than the Tumblr with Everyone's an Author.

    Content

    •  "Mixing Languages & Dialects" chapter.
    • I appreciate the chapters on reading, especially features like the "fact-check photos and videos" section. Everyone's an Author includes this and more.
    • Wish it had more genres (like arguments of definition, included in Everything's an Argument..
    • Minor gripe: I wish the writing assignments were aligned with the readings, but that's easy enough for instructors to adjust to or work around. (Plus, not everyone uses a genre-based approach.) I think the excellent readings outweigh this issue. 
    • The readings are superior to Everyone's an Author, especially in the "What's Language Got to Do With It" section. 
    • The resources in The Little Seagull Handbook for things like paragraph development are helpful. 
    • Positive for both EOA and LT: Both Everyone's an Author and Let's Talk are forward thinking and inclusive, both in terms of their approach to style and to multimodal composition. Either would have good longevity and won't seem immediately outdated, I think.

  • Muller, G. The New World Reader: Thinking and Writing about the Global Community, 5/e. Wadsworth Cengage, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-305-64377-2. $69.09

  • Goldthwaite, M. The Norton Reader, 15/e. Norton, 2020. 

    ISBN: 978-0-393-342052-4.  $50.29

  • Austin, M. Reading the World: Ideas That Matter, 4/e. Norton, 2020. ISBN: 978-0-393-656015.  $71.75

  • Colombo, G. Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, 12/e. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2022. Ebook ISBN: 978-1-319-41338-5, $35.99; Paperback ISBN: 978-1-319-24462-0, $80.99.

  • Kelly, J. The Seagull Book of Essays, 4/e. Norton, 2021. Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-53875-5. $35.00.