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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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College Skills: Intermediate English (Canadian)
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Research in Color: A hands-on roadmap to literature reviews in the social sciences
Frances Brady · National Louis University
This workbook guides graduate students through the literature review process for a research course, dissertation, thesis, or publication. Through pragmatic and creative activities, students will find and evaluate sources, take effective notes, recognize patterns, and synthesize findings to prepare them for writing their literature reviews.
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Children's Literature: Foundations, History, and Practice
Caroline Hopper · College of the Siskiyous
Children’s Literature: Foundations, History, and Practice is a comprehensive introduction to the study and teaching of children’s literature. Written for educators, pre-service teachers, parents, librarians, and others who care about young readers, the textbook explores why children’s books matter and how they shape children’s imagination, empathy, identity, and understanding of the world. Across sixteen chapters, the book covers major genres and topics in children’s literature, including pictu
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LIT 231: Survey of British Literature I
Ame Maloney · Skyline College
Study of the typical works of major British writers from the 8th to the 18th Century.
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Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
Brendan Fong & David I. Spivak · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Category theory is a relatively new branch of mathematics that has transformed much of pure math research. The technical advance is that category theory provides a framework in which to organize formal systems and by which to translate between them, allowing one to transfer knowledge from one field to another. But this same organizational framework also has many compelling examples outside of pure math. In this text, we will give seven sketches on real-world applications of category theory.
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Introduction to College Composition
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
Introduction to College Composition focuses on helping students practice and strengthen the basic concepts and skills of the writing process: critical reading; process-based writing; research and documentation; and practical grammar and mechanics. An optional module introduces “college success” strategies that help students understand and develop good habits to improve their performance in this and other college courses.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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About Writing Guide with Handbook, a textbook for English Composition
OpenStax · LibreTexts
This text aligns to the goals, topics, and objectives of many first-year writing and composition courses. It is organized according to relevant genres, and focuses on the writing process, effective writing practices or strategies—including graphic organizers, writing frames, and word banks to support visual learning—and conventions of usage and style. The text includes an editing and documentation handbook to provide information on grammar and mechanics, common usage errors, and citation styles.
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Successful College Composition
Kathryn Crowther et al. · Georgia Perimeter College
This text is a transformation of Writing for Success under a grant from Affordable Learning Georgia to Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) in 2015. Section 1.3 was authored by Rebecca Weaver. This text is a revision of a prior adaptation of Writing for Success led by Rosemary Cox in GPC’s Department of English, titled Successful College Writing for GPC Students (2014, 2015).
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The Tongue and Quill
US Air Force · LibreTexts
Military members and civilian employees of the Department of the Air Force must communicate clearly and effectively to carry out our missions. Although we live in an era of rapid personal and mass communication that was barely imagined just a few years ago, our Air Force still requires face-to-face briefings, background papers, and staff packages to keep the mission moving forward. This handbook provides the information to ensure clear communications-written or spoken.
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Critical Thinking
Andrew Gurevich · Mt Hood Community College
Using a combination of the newest findings in hemispheric science, neuropsychology, and brain development, along with the long-established rhetorical algorithms for analyzing the structure of arguments, this course explores the boundaries of critical and creative thinking in pursuit of developing a clearer and more robust model for the construction and deconstruction of various forms of argument.
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Online Technical Writing
David McMurrey · Austin Community College
The Online Technical Writing textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the essential skills and practices in technical writing. It covers various types of documents, including business correspondence, reports, proposals, user guides, and technical manuals, along with their design and formatting principles.
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British Literature II - Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Bonnie J. Robinson · University of North Georgia
British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond features 37 authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the literature developed within and developing through their respective eras. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that has captivated readers in the past and still holds us now.
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English Literature I
Cristina Lopez-Bowlin · Oxnard College
This is an adaptation of British Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century, edited by Bonnie J. Robinson and Laura Getty, University of North Georgia. This anthology follows the shift of monarchic to parliamentarian rule in Britain, and the heroic epic to the more egalitarian novel as genre.
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Integrated Reading and Writing
Sravani Banerjee, Elizabeth Eckford, Nicholas Goodwin, Robin Hahn, and Binh Vo · Evergreen Valley College
This text is designed for a semester-long, college-level composition course intended for English 1A students. It is divided into 11 chapters, addressing different aspects of the writing process including the academic research paper. The last chapter is a database of texts for supplemental college-level reading and writing integration. This text focuses primarily on nonfiction, as intended for English 1A students.
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ESOL Advanced Grammar
Allyson Marceau · San Jacinto College
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ENGLT 311: English Literature - Romanticism through 21st Century
Lesley Gale · Cosumnes River College
This course surveys significant works of British authors from the beginning of Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century to the Moderns and Post-Moderns of the Twentieth Century, with consideration of the important aspects of English literary history. In this course, students will read and analyze numerous literary works relevant to literature as a whole and to British culture in particular, making connections between various literary periods.
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Writing About Texts (Lumen)
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
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1st-year College English Intensive for Multilingual Students
Kelly Kadi · Diablo Valley College
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American Literature I
Anne Eidenmuller · Columbia Basin College
American Literature I (1650–1860) examines significant literary works of early American and Puritan literature, the Enlightenment, American Romanticism, and pre-Civil War era. The course includes primary texts (many accompanied by video/audio options), historical background, literary criticism and interpretation, and instruction on writing about literature.