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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Writing Skills Lab
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
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9.3: Sophocles. Antigone (441 BC)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Romeo and Juliet
Rebecca Olson et al. · Oregon State University
This edition of Romeo and Juliet was edited by students for students. We believe that reliably edited versions of the play should be available for free online. The editors who remember, far better than their professors, what it was like to read the play for the first time—carefully considered every pronoun, punctuation mark, and footnote. Our goal: to make a friendly, confidence-building edition that supported classroom activities at the high school and college level.
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Rhetoric and Composition
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Authoring Culture: The Foundations of Twenty-first Century Writing
The Authoring Culture Collective · Columbia College Chicago
This text is designed to help 21st Century college students with writing.
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English 241: Creative Writing
Ukaisha Al-Amin · The City Colleges of Chicago
Students will understand the structure and elements of narrative writing, concentrating on the writing of poetry, drama, and fiction. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the critical terminology of the creative writer.
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The Odyssey
Homer · translated by Samuel Butler
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
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Rhetoric and Composition
Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead · Bay College
Adapted from Writing for Success and Edited by Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead Designed by the Bay College Online Learning Department and Bay College Library.
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Amores
Ovid · LibreTexts
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Bad Ideas About Writing
Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. · West Virginia University
Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of and antidotes to major myths in writing instruction.
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The Word on College Reading and Writing
Carol Burnell, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, and Nicole Rosevear · LibreTexts
An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.
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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing."
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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
Robin DeRosa, Abby Goode et al. · Plymouth State University
Is American literature defined by geographical boundaries? What is the difference between American literature and American history? How does the in-depth study of early American literature prompt us rethink representations of American culture today? In our global era, it is clear that past definitions of American literature must be revisited. This anthology moves to answer the question “what is American literature?” by framing the texts in new and provocative ways that fit the modern age.
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World Literature
Aprill Nogarr · Los Medanos College
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Bodelson's American Literature 1865-Present
Amery Bodelson · Western Technical College
For the last 150 years, American literature has offered brilliant stories, fearless language experiments, astute social criticism, comic philosophizing, and more. These writings are the focus of this course. We will read famous authors and major works from the late 19th, the 20th, and the 21st centuries.
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Transition with Purpose - Pathways from English Language to Academic Study
Michele Miller & Anne Greenhoe · Portland State University
Part one of this textbook is a guide for moving from ESL study to academic study at Portland State University*. It includes the resources students will use to understand policies and processes governing their degree study and their transition to academic coursework. Part two focuses on how academic skills are used across various disciplines and is comprised of activities and assignments designed to practice these skills. In seminars, students will use both sections simultaneously. *While much of
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Chinese Rhetoric and Writing
Andy Kirkpatrick & Zhichang Xu · Griffith & Monash Universities
This book provides teachers of writing, and in particular those involved in the teaching of English academic writing to Chinese students, an introduction to key stages in the development of Chinese rhetoric, a wide-ranging field with a history of several thousand years. Understanding this important rhetorical tradition provides a strong foundation for assessing and responding to the writing of this growing group of students.
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The Word on College Reading and Writing
Carol Burnell, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, and Nicole Rosevear · Clackamas Community & Portland State University
Written by five college reading and writing instructors, this interactive, multimedia text draws from decades of experience teaching students who are entering the college reading and writing environment for the very first time. It includes examples, exercises, and definitions for just about every reading- and writing-related topic students will encounter in their college courses.
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English 102: How Arguments Work
Alfred Siha · HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
How Arguments Work takes students through the techniques they will need to respond to readings and make sophisticated arguments in any college class. This is a practical guide to argumentation with strategies and templates for the kinds of assignments students will commonly encounter. It covers rhetorical concepts in everyday language and explores how arguments can build trust and move readers.
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World Literature I - Beginnings to 1650
Laura Getty & Kyounghye Kwon · University of North Georgia
This peer-reviewed anthology includes introductory text and images before each series of readings. Sections of the text are divided by time period in three parts: the Ancient World, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, and then divided into chapters by location.