Contributors & Acknowledgments
This OER textbook was made possible by a generous grant awarded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s GEER State Grant and funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The faculty of Texas Woman’s University (TWU), who were awarded this grant in 2023, formed a team to increase student access to OER and to eliminate the cost of educational materials for our corequisite “1003: Introduction to Reading & Writing” and “1013: Composition I” courses.
Revisions and additions to this textbook version were organized and written by Dr. Sierra Mendez, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Associate Director of TWU First Year Composition, and Jennifer Conner, a rhetoric graduate student and Assistant Director of First Year Composition. Formatting and design was completed by Dr. Sierra Mendez.
Dr. Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Dr. Kathryn Quesenbury wrote the original grant and acted as principal investigators to lead the development of these materials. They also contributed extensively to the writing, editing, and digital content creation of this project.
We would like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Maclain Scott, Assistant Director of English and Director of First Year Writing at Rocky Mountain College, for his expert review of this OER’s materials.
And, finally, we would like to thank the students whose excellent work was nominated for and included in this book.
We are profoundly graduate to have worked with so many TCC and TWU faculty and staff who made this OER textbook possible in the first place. The names of all contributors are listed below in alphabetical order for the numerous contributions they made:
Kirk Adams, Dr. Jaime Barker, Alicia Beretta, Taylor Brown, Dr. Rachel Daugherty, Charles Dyer, Kenneth “Woody” Evans, Chelsea Fernandez, Dr. Rachel Johnston, Natalie Julian, Jamie Lail, Ivan Lee, Dr. Audrey Lundahl, Kathy Nevins, Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Denny, Monica Pronchnow, Adrian Shapiro, Dr. Lia Schuermann, Terra Taylor, Dr. Desireé Thorpe, Dr. Tracey Robinson, Dr. Margaret Williams, and Amanda Zerangue.
In addition to these contributors, we were fortunate to partner with support services and centers from across our campuses as well as receive additional funding to support this work. These offices include:
TCC Connect; TCC Libraries; TCC Writing and Reading Resource Center; TWU Center for Faculty Excellence; TWU Department of Language, Culture, and Gender Studies; TWU General Counsel; TWU Libraries; TWU Teaching and Learning with Technology Office; and the TWU Write Site.
