Welcome to the English Reading Bank, a repository of links to articles, eBooks, and videos that are either freely available online, or freely available to Wichita State University students, staff, and faculty through the University Libraries. This guide is designed to be a no-cost replacement for a traditional reader for English courses.
Resources are organized by thematic pages, and within each page, links are alphabetized by the authors’ last names. Accompanying each listed resource are two things: 1) a brief summary; 2) a red lock icon or a green open lock icon to indicate whether the resource is freely available (
) or available through the University Libraries (
).
There is also a page for an interactive Table of Contents
computer and book by Slurp Design from the Noun Project
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Maria Sclafani, Coordinator of Library Instructional Services, and Carrie Dickison, Assistant Director of the Writing Program, created this guide to be used in conjunction with ENGL 102: College English II.
Disclaimer: The resources in this collection do not represent the opinions of the Wichita State University (WSU) composition program or WSU faculty. English 102 focuses on critical thinking and writing, and students taking English 102 may be asked to analyze and/or evaluate sources listed on this guide as part of assignments for the course. If you have any suggestions for readings to be added to this collection, please email Carrie Dickison.
Attribution credit: This guide was inspired by the Columbus State Community College Composition Reading Bank Guide, created by Rachel Brooks-Pannell, Shawn Casey, Rebecca Fleming, and Nick Lakostik. That guide is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
