Viking Open Educational Resource Research Guide: English Comp Report

Inspiration:

In teaching various levels of composition and rhetoric, my colleague and I realized that our students didn’t understand how to provide the necessary MLA documentation using the 2016 8^th edition updates.  We felt a series of short videos would be of great assistance, especially to our online English 105 students. After researching available content online, we envisioned the aesthetic and content we wanted, then we scripted our dialogue, learned how to use Camtasia to record and edit, and filmed over the summer.  The videos were then licensed with a Creative Commons license, captioned and posted in our online Canvas shells.  After positive feedback from our students, we shared them with the department of English, and many of our colleagues now use them both in class and as an available Canvas resource for their students.

Cost Savings:

The videos replace a $16.00 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 8^th ed.  Calculations are based upon an average class size of 28, and 4 sections per full-time faculty.

About Our Faculty Authors:

Allison Murray is a full-time professor in the department of English, who has been with the college since 2001.  She began teaching online in 2016, and realized the potential and importance of quality online courses during that time.  She has served the college as the Course Evaluation Chair, the English Majors and Minors Faculty Advisor, and now as the OER Coordinator.  She is the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Online Instructor Award.

Natalie Burgess is a full-time professor in the department of English, who has been with the college since 2004.  She teaches both online and face-to-face courses, while also serving as the long-term  Creative Writing Committee Chair.

MLA 2016 Logic

2016 MLA Updates

MLA 2016 Book and Textbook Citations

MLA 2016 Database Citations

MLA 2016 Personal Interview and Lecture Citations

MLA 2016 Podcast Citations

MLA 2016 Government Resources Citations