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A New Open Educational Resource from CSU!
Understanding Literacy in Our Lives: First-Year Writing Perspective
Edited by Dr. Julie Townsend
Dr. Julie Townsend, a 2021 Textbook Affordability Grant Recipient, has just published Understanding Literacy in Our Lives: First-Year Writing Perspective.
This collection of texts aims at making writing studies and New Literacy Studies accessible and relevant to first-year writers across all disciplines. Writers with different experience levels and a wide range of goals will benefit from learning how to study reading, writing, communication, literacy, and education with the tools available from the discipline of writing. The essays contained in this text are strong examples of first-year writers investigating a wide range of contexts to better understand the literacies that make up their lives.
Dr. Townsend will use this freely available Open Educational Resource in her English 102, College Writing II classes. Congratulations Dr. Townsend!
Dr. Julie Townsend has been an Assistant Lecturer in the CSU’s English Department since 2019.
Faculty: there's still time to apply for this semester's textbook affordability grant - we've extended the deadline until December 10th.
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