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ENGL C1000E · Embedded support

Find support for the part of C1000 your students need help with.

Targeted OER for scaffolding, guided practice, multilingual and language support, research, revision, editing, and other embedded-support needs.

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ENGL C1000E includes the same academic reading and writing core as C1000, with embedded support determined locally. These resources are listed separately because they are especially useful for targeted support rather than being evaluated as complete C1000 textbooks.

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Embedded-support resources

About external reviews: Review links appear only when reviews are available for that resource on Open Textbook Library (OTL) or MERLOT. Karen checks for new reviews every few months. A missing review link does not imply lower quality.

Reading & sources

Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with Sources

Trischa Duke, Becky Bonarek, and Steph Mielcarek · University of Illinois Chicago / LibreTexts · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Best role: Highly scaffolded academic reading, source use, and writing process support

Explicit practice in active reading, annotation, paraphrase, summary, response, source integration, argumentative research, peer feedback, revision, and portfolio work.

Academic reading Multilingual writers Source integration Writing process Research scaffolding Peer review
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Rhetoric & critical reading

A Guide to Analyzing Arguments in an Academic Setting

Joshua Botvin, Yuan Zhang, and Jacqueline E. O'Dell · UMass Dartmouth · CC BY-NC-SA

Best role: Highly scaffolded argument-reading and analysis support

Concise, student-friendly instruction in thesis, claims, evidence, counterargument, implicit claims, audience, purpose, tone, agenda, bias, skeptical reading, and annotation.

Critical reading Argument analysis Claims & evidence Counterargument Annotation
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Language & multilingual support

University Academic Writing for International Students: A Usage-based Approach

Carol Lynn Moder et al. · Oklahoma State University Libraries · CC BY 4.0 except where otherwise noted

Best role: Genre-based academic writing, source use, and language support for multilingual students

Modular support for audience and purpose, writing from readings and data, summary, persuasive writing, source evaluation and integration, revision, and grammar taught in authentic genre contexts.

Multilingual writers Academic language Genre Source evaluation Summary & paraphrase Revision
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Language & multilingual support

Critical Language Awareness: Language Power Techniques and English Grammar

Jonathon Reinhardt, Anuj Gupta, Robert Poole, and Dilara Avci · University of Arizona · CC BY-NC 4.0 except where otherwise noted

Best role: Critical language awareness, rhetoric, grammar, and media-literacy support

Connects grammar and language choices to ideology, power, metaphor, doublespeak, pronoun choice, propaganda, logical fallacies, media literacy, and corpus analysis.

Linguistic diversity Grammar in context Media literacy Bias & propaganda Corpus analysis
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Editing & conventions

Grammar Essentials

Excelsior Online Writing Lab · CC BY 4.0

Best role: Just-in-time grammar, punctuation, and editing practice

Modular, student-friendly reference and practice covering punctuation, parts of speech, quotation integration, sentence-level conventions, and common editing issues. The live OWL includes interactive practice.

Editing Sentence-level support Punctuation Grammar & usage Interactive practice
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