Assessment of Academic Achievement
Texts
English-135 textbooks will satisfy the following criteria:
• A highly rhetorical focus that emphasizes how to adapt content, style, and organization to various workplace situations and conventions and that is apparent through both instructional text and examples.
• Sections on each of the communication genres taught, including oral presentations.
• An emphasis on visual communication strategies, including instruction on using graphics and formatting and examples of such visual aids working coherently and purposefully with written text.
• Ample instruction on information literacy principles and skills: finding, evaluating, and using sources with appropriate documentation.
• Profiles and analyses of ethical issues particular to professional communication.
• Affordability.
• Portability.
• Access to an electronic resource (e.g., a website) that supplements the text and that provides free exercises and models (preferred but not required).
The approved book list is maintained by and available from the English-135 Committee Chair and is reviewed annually.