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Becoming a Confident Reader
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Becoming a Confident Reader focuses on the essential skills and practices needed upon entering the first semester of college composition, either with or without a co-requisite support course. Students will learn to build and maintain resilience as a student, apply an effective reading process to college texts, and summarize and respond to academic writing. Thematic readings are included for practice. Extension activities provide opportunities for making connections, conducting basic research, analyzing the techniques authors use in their writing, and evaluating the use of sources in a text. This text is appropriate for a developmental English course that is a pre-requisite to the first semester of composition.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Reading
Textbook
Author:
Dr. Susannah M. Givens
Date Added:
01/09/2024
Been There, Done That: The Business Student’s Guide to Rhetorical Analysis and Discourse Communities
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This book was developed by one section of the University of Baltimore spring 2020 Composition and Research (WRIT 300) course for Merrick School of Business (MSB) students. This book is designed to take business students beyond the standard requirements for the class. In addition to exploring rhetorical analysis of discourse community genres, the students developed essays to guide future learners through the development of specific genres used in business-related discourse communities. The hard work and enduring patience of the spring 2020 students has culminated in this publication, "Been There, Done That: The Business Student’s Guide to Rhetorical Analysis & Discourse Communities." The book includes guidance for future WRIT 300 MSB students a guide to success – from a college student’s point of view.

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English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Baltimore
Author:
Harvey Sky
Kristin Conlin
Nett Smith
Tracy Worley
Date Added:
02/26/2021
Beginning ESOL
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This book contains three levels of interactive grammar lessons and reading activities for beginning students of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). The grammar section includes a select set of YouTube videos, and the three original readers include short picture or chapter stories. Each lesson is accompanied by self-correcting exercises.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Macleans College
Author:
Davida Jordan
Eric Dodson
Timothy Krause
Date Added:
08/24/2021
Better writing from the beginning: An open text on the college writing process
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Covers processes and fundamentals of writing expository essays, including structure, organization and development, diction and style, revision and editing, mechanics and standard usage required for college-level writing.

This project was funded by a grant from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission in Oregon, a grant that ran from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. The text of the book is complete (though, in the way of these things, still evolving), but moving it online is still in progress. The chapters available here are ready to be used or copied; additional chapters will be added during the summer of 2017 as the conversion and final copy edits are completed.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Jenn Kepka
Date Added:
06/28/2023
Beyond Argument: Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change
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Beyond Argument offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the care of the self — an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises to reinvigorate the form and address many of the concerns expressed by essay scholars and writers regarding the lack of rigorous exploration we see in our students' personal essays — and sometimes, even, in our own. In pursuing this approach, Sarah Allen presents a version of subjectivity that enables productive debate in the essay, among essays, and beyond.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
WAC Clearinghouse
Author:
Sarah Allen
Date Added:
01/01/2015
Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies
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How closely can or should writing centers and writing classrooms collaborate? Beyond Dichotomy explores how research on peer tutoring one-to-one and in small groups can inform our work with students in writing centers and other tutoring programs, as well as in writing courses and classrooms. These multi-method (including rhetorical and discourse analyses and ethnographic and case-study) investigations center on several course-based tutoring (CBT) partnerships at two universities. Rather than practice separately in the center or in the classroom, rather than seeing teacher here and tutor there and student over there, CBT asks all participants in the dynamic drama of teaching and learning to consider the many possible means of connecting synergistically.

This book offers the "more-is-more" value of designing more peer-to-peer learning situations for developmental and multicultural writers, and a more elaborate view of what happens in these peer-centered learning environments. It offers important implications—especially of directive and nondirective tutoring strategies and methods—for peer-to-peer learning and one-to-one tutoring and conferencing for all teachers and learners of writing.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
WAC Clearinghouse
Author:
Steven J. Corbett
Date Added:
01/01/2015
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry
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The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced new theories and critical approaches for understanding African American literary art.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Reading
Textbook
Author:
Howard Rambsy II
Date Added:
02/05/2020
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: English Language Arts. Chapter 8, Lesson 1: Blues, Poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance
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In this lesson, students will discuss how the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance and Locke's New Negro were exemplified by the poetry of Langston Hughes. Specifically, they will examine how Hughes incorporated the vernacular tradition of the Blues in his work, and identify the literary techniques Hughes employs to make his poetry so vivid.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
07/02/2021
Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 in Poems
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During the early days of quarantine, many teachers turned to poetry to process their experiences. Teacher-Poets Writing to Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 preserves this poetry and teachers' experiences as they navigated a new reality in education.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Open OKState
Author:
Abigail M. Woods
Alex Berkley
Allison Berryhill
Andy Schoenborn
Anna J. Small-Roseboro
Ashley Valencia-Pate
Barbara Edler
Betsy Jones
Carolina Lopez
Denise Hill
Denise Krebs
Donetta Norris
Emily Yamasaki
Gayle Sands
Glenda Funk
Jamie Langley
Jennifer Guyor-Jowett
Jennifer Sykes
Kate Currie
Katrina Morrison
Kimberly Johnson
Laura Langley
Linda Mitchell
Margaret Simon
Maureen Ingram
Melissa Ali
Mo Daley
Monica Schwafaty
Sarah Donovan
Scott McCloskey
Seana Wright
Shaun Ingalls
Stacey Joy
Stefani Boutelier
Susan Ahlbrand
Susie Morice
Tammi Belko
Date Added:
06/28/2021
Bridging the Gap: A Guide to College-Level Research
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This text introduces copyright, publishing formats, note-taking formats, citation styles, source evaluation, library organization, library resources and services, and effective search practices using online databases and Internet search engines.

Subject:
Applied Science
English Language Arts
Information Science
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Idaho State University
Author:
Catherine J. Gray
Date Added:
02/18/2021
British Literature Through History
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This is an OER textbook with historical background on many great works of British literature, from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century. It contains links to free online versions of the texts, but the actual texts are not included in this book.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Literature
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
02/05/2020
Building Blocks of Academic Writing
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Building Blocks of Academic Writing covers typical writing situations for developing academic writers, from prewriting and research through expressing themselves online. Developmental work in different types of paragraphs—descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive—allows students to build capacity for longer essays. Each chapter includes review questions with a Canadian focus that instructors can assign to help students practise the skills developed in the text.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
Carellin Brooks
Date Added:
02/19/2021
Business Communication for Success
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Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.

Subject:
Business and Communication
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project
Author:
Scott McLean
Date Added:
01/01/2010
Business Communication for Success
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This book is suited for Business Writing, Business English or Business Research/Report Writing courses.Basics of Written Business Communication presents basic business communication concepts, vocabulary, models, and exercises in a clear, practical, and engaging way. The author provides a set of core chapters intended to provide a highly focused introduction to the field. Then, he provides an optional series of modules that provide instructors with complete flexibility to emphasize additional topics of their choice.

Subject:
Business and Communication
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Minnesota
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Author:
Scott McLean
Date Added:
01/01/2010
Business Writing Style Guide
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In light of the cost of textbooks and education in general, we undertook this project to create a free resource to be used broadly by students in a business context. We wanted to provide comprehensive coverage of the writing process, but keep our topics relevant to business education. We hope that this textbook provides equal value to both non- and native-English learners alike. Just like we acknowledge that students will continue to develop their writing skills, we expect this project to challenge and further our own skills as writers.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
John Morris
Julie Swart
Date Added:
01/06/2020
COVID-19: Success Within Devastation
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This book is organized into 9 parts, each based on a larger topic that students have chosen to study and write research papers on. Each part contains several short student papers, around 2,000 words each, exploring a different aspect of COVID-19 that relates to science, technology and society. Students were asked to examine their topics through research, gathering primary and secondary sources, both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed to support their arguments. They were also encouraged to apply several theories often used in studies of Science, Technology and Society, including Actor-Network Theory, Path Dependence, Social Construction and Tragedy of the Commons to their topics. Students were given an introduction to these theories in the course, and they were asked to discuss how one or more of the theories applies and helps to better understand their paper topics. Some students also engaged in additional research on these theories to explore their applicability. Taking advantage of the e-book format, student also used Creative Commons and public domain images, which are not restricted by copyright limitations to help illustrate their points. In addition to their individual chapters, students also worked together to write introductions for different parts of the book. These part introductions contain a brief summary by the students on why they chose to write on a specific larger topic and how their individual chapters relate to the topic. They also give students an opportunity to reflect on how COVID-19 and its impact on the larger topic they are writing about has affected their personal lives.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Clemson University
Author:
Aubri Karr
Blake Swanson
Caitlyn Sauls
Caroline Mace
Carter Fricks
Christopher Rodriguez
Daniel Herlong
Eli Gosnell
Hannah Freeman
Hannah Wilson
Jack Klinge
Janet Taylor
Jordan Kinzler
Josie Hartings
Kyla Hammock
Luke Mowery
Melissa Kostecki
Nick Stiebler
Quinton Patterson
Sarah Mount
Stanley Finley
Susan Taylor
Thomas Neeser
Thomas Williams
Will Haskell
Yang Wu
Zarionna Robinson
Date Added:
08/06/2021
CU Write - The Cameron Composition Textbook
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Textbook for English Composition courses at Cameron University, including for Developmental Writing, Supplemental Writing Instruction, English Composition I, and English Composition II. Material covers basic writing skills and conventions of academic writing, as well as specific sections devoted to the major assignments in CU composition curriculum: narrative essays, critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, research and argumentation, and reflective writing. Includes student examples by winners of the CU Write essay contests.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Online Consortium of Oklahoma
Author:
Carie Schneider
Date Added:
06/28/2023
Canada and Speeches from the Throne
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This book by senior undergraduate and graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Regina describes how Canadian Prime Ministers articulated their vision of Canada from 1935 to 2015 through their Speeches from the Throne and in their Leaders' Day speeches. It demonstrates that each of Canada's Prime Ministers had a vision for the country and articulated that vision in their speeches and through their words.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
University of Regina
Author:
Alexander Washkowsky
Braden Sapara
Brady Dean
Dayle Steffen
Deklen Wolbaum
Joshua Switzer
Raymond B. Blake
Rebecca Morris-Hurl
Sarah Hoag
Date Added:
01/18/2021