Resource Organization By Topic

This page provides an archive of multimedia resources used in writing and rhetoric instruction. Each page includes texts and videos selected for each concept, author and source, instructional notes for guide use, and licensing details to clarify copyright status and Creative Commons licenses and support flexible, multimodal teaching approaches. This page offers curated, concise instructional materials that are directly aligned with the assignments from our First-Year Composition course and mapped to the course’s Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs).

These sources are selected in accordance with the instructional topics addressed throughout the course:

• Writing Myths
• Critical Thinking and Rhetorical Situations
• What Literacy Narrative is
• Multimodality
• Prewriting Techniques
• Remediation in FYC
• Discourse Community
• Peer Revision and How to Do it
• Importance of Reflection and How to Do it
• Primary Research and the Methods
• Making an Argument
• Evidence to Support a Claim
• Identifying Audience
• Audience Spectrum
• Avoid Bias in Research
• Available Means of Persuasion
• Modes of Persuasion (Ethos, Logos, Pathos)
• Data Collection and Reliable Sources
• Evaluate Sources
• Secondary Research and Analysis