Dr. Lacy Hope ENGL 2010 Intermediate Writing

I created a textbook titled Academic Writing With and Among Digital Technologies that students regularly referenced throughout the semester. In comparison to textbooks I’ve previously assigned, students saved approximately $50 on required course materials.

Curricular changes: 

I did not make any curricular changes to my course; in fact, I designed the book around my approach for teaching the course.

Teaching and learning impacts: 

Students who actively read and engaged with the OER were able to better articulate the role technologies play in their writing process, as well as better leverage the affordances of those technologies to complete assignments. 

OER Adoption Process

There were two main motivations behind creating OER for this course. First, the cost of textbooks has risen significantly, which I think is unfair to students. Using OER provided students with the necessary resources for being successful in the course, while not adding a financial burden. Second, my specific sections of English 2010 examine the impacts of digital technologies on the academic writing process. I had a difficult time locating materials that effectively addressed those topics in the way I wanted, so I created my own materials.

Student feedback about using OER:  

Below, please find feedback collected from surveys I created for various sections of the course.

It made me think that we as humans have created technology to help us and it allowed me to engage my mind into how it has become more humanistic and helpful with AI. It is also weird to think that it is all human.

I found Technology as Rhetorical the most interesting, because it challenged how I normally think about technology. Technology can use rhetorical powers a lot, rather than just everyday use.

I found this reading the most interesting because of the examples used within the text. It helped make the reading more enjoyable and also made it easier to connect the ideas presented in the text to real life scenarios.

Instructor Name:

Dr. Lacy Hope

Dr. Hope is an Assistant Professor in the English Department where she teaches courses in composition and technical writing. Dr. Hope’s research on the intersections of digital technologies and the writing process inspired her to create an open access writing textbook that focused on how students can use technology critically to broaden their understandings of a topic, collaborate with others, and strengthen their writing.