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OER Textbook for English Composition

by Jennifer Tripp, Ann Healy, Elizabeth Fontenella, Ann DeCiccio

This website is being updated in August 2025. Contact ncclibrary@ccsnh.edu with questions.

Preface

In 2018, in response to the rising cost of textbooks, four Nashua Community College (NCC) English instructors went on a mission to find high-quality, free, and openly licensed college composition materials. The result is this custom NCC ENGL101 text, which is a compilation of multiple relevant online texts. This text is provided at no cost to every NCC student who takes ENGL101.

Note: Links to all of the information in this online text are also available in this one-page pdf file.

Attribution

OER Textbook for English Composition is licensed under a Creative Commons license and adapted from the following sources:

• English Composition I Copyright Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
• English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods–Based Copyright Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
• Introduction to College Composition Copyright Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
• Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence an OpenSUNY textbook by Amy Guptill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.