Open Source
This text is an Open Educational Resource (OER), responding to the growing movement for Zero Cost Course Materials at SFSU, and the need to lower the costs of higher education in any way we can to provide equity and inclusion for everyone regardless of socioeconomic privilege. In addition, as an OER, this text is available far beyond one course and adaptable to students’ needs throughout their careers.
This OER is completely free to readers. If you have the means, a small donation enables Dan to provide this OER ad-free to you and all readers, now and in the future.
Multimodal
To minimize cost and maximize new learning technologies, while being mindful of various learning styles and individual needs, we have integrated various modalities and reading practices through our text, including lots of visual images and video, as well as links to external digital resources.
Interactive
To make reading engaging, this text provides short writing prompts as you read – for which we recommend using the hypothes.is extension to annotate your responses – in order to frame reading and writing as a conversation that sometimes starts with the authors’ ideas — but importantly always involves your own ideas as a reader, as you create meaning through the reading process. Get Started with your free hypothes.is account to join a public or private reading group, and annotate this text or any other open source on the web.
About Us:
Dan and Jolie are former colleagues in the English Department at San Francisco State University. Through our work in education, we connect with various members of the campus community to give our students the best opportunities to learn, and teach, based on exploring resources and establishing community with them.
To inquire, contribute, and collaborate:
email Dan at dan.curtis-cummins@pikespeak.edu
email Jolie at jolie@sfsu.edu
Reading and Writing Your World 