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The Odyssey
Homer · translated by Samuel Butler
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is a fundamental work in the modern Western canon, being the oldest extant piece of Western literature, second to the Iliad. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.
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SPAN 426: Introduction to Mexican American Literature
Rebecca Estes · Cosumnes River College
This page details Project Gutenberg's collection of popular Spanish literature, offering access to a range of texts from classics to modern works. It serves as an essential resource for readers interested in exploring Spanish literary heritage.
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Jane Good - Elementary- Curation 4th Grade-Reading-and-Writing-Trimester-1.imscc
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Reading Anthology Three Levels
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This reading anthology is a curated collection of openly licensed full-text essays and stories on a variety of subjects, designed to be used for discussions and writing assignments. The anthology is organized according to three levels of reading difficulty, but instructors can easily mix and match reading selections. This anthology was curated by Lumen Learning using materials from a variety of open sources.
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Afrofuturism Across the African Diaspora: Empowering Black Students Through Literature
Patricia France and Hajra Ismail Yacooboli · College of Marin
Afrofuturism is important because it offers a chance to continue to dream. Representation matters in many different forms. In academia there are canons of literature that center whiteness, but we need to engage students in new ways that connect to their world now. As instructors who are looking for topics to engage our many diverse students, there is beauty in using Afrofuturism in a college literature course.
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Reading and Writing for Learning
Community College of Allegheny County · LibreTexts
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English 102: Arguments and Research Skills
Professor Ukaisha Al-Amin · City Colleges of Chicago
English 102: Arguments and Research Skills at the City Colleges of Chicago is a transfer-level composition course that focuses on advanced academic writing, critical thinking, and research methodologies. Students learn to identify controversial topics, evaluate source credibility, synthesize evidence, and formulate compelling argumentative essays.
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Thinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences
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Open Technical Communication
Tiffani Reardon, Tammy Powell, Jonathan Arnett, Monique Logan, & Cassie Race · Kennesaw State University
Open Technical Communication is a freely accessible online textbook for technical communication, technical writing, workplace writing, and other related courses.
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2.4: Featured Creative Nonfiction Author- Frederick Douglass
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Argument in Action: Academic Writing and Critical Thought
LauraLee Miller · Western Technical College
A textbook for advanced composition focusing on argument and rhetoric.
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Writing Unleashed
Sybil Priebe, Ronda Marman, & Dana Anderson · North Dakota State College of Science
Welcome to Writing Unleashed, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as an extremely brief guide for students, jam-packed with teachers’ voices, students’ voices, and engineered for fun.
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Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
Steinberg · Literature, the Humanities, & Humanity
iterature, the Humanities, and Humanity attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of reading and studying literature, even earlier literature. It shows students, some of whom will themselves become teachers, that literature actually has something to say to them. Furthermore, it shows that literature is meant to be enjoyed.
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A Guide to Academic Writing and Research: Reading, Writing, and Joining Academic Conversations
Danilo Caputo · Irvine Valley College
Developed for ENGL C1001 and ENGL C1001H at Irvine Valley College, this practical guide supports students through academic writing and sustained research. Its focused chapters address questions writers naturally ask, from developing research questions and evaluating sources to building arguments and presenting findings. Rather than prescribing rigid formulas, the guide emphasizes adaptable rhetorical principles, including audience, purpose, evidence, organization, and style.
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English 101-97: City Colleges of Chicago Course Materials
Todd Heldt · City Colleges of Chicago
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A Guide to Rhetoric Genre and Success in First Year Writing - CSN Edition
Angela Spires, Brendan Shapiro, Geoffrey Kenmuir, Kimberly Kohl, and Linda Gannon · College of Southern Nevada
This is a textbook for second-semester college writing, with some elements tailored to the ENG 102/114 courses at the College of Southern Nevada. It includes material on reading methods, the writing process, rhetoric, multimodality, library research, working with sources, argument and synthesis, as well as updated guides to both MLA 9th edition and APA 7th edition formats.
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ENGL 3330: Approaches to Literature
Kris McAbee · University of Arkansas Little Rock
This text was built for a foundational undergraduate course for English majors. It focuses on the various methods, critical theories, and strategies used to analyze literary texts, while emphasizing close reading and academic research.
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Sourcing, summarizing, and synthesizing: Skills for effective research writing
Wendy McBride · University of Arkansas · 2023
An open educational text written by McBride.
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Writing for Inquiry and Research
Jeffrey Kessler; Mark Bennett; Sarah Primeau; Charitianne Williams · University of Illinois Library - Urbana · 2023
Writing for Inquiry and Research guides students through the composition process of writing a research paper. The book divides this process into four chapters that each focus on a genre connected to research writing: the annotated bibliography, proposal, literature review, and research essay. Each chapter provides significant guidance with reading, writing, and research strategies, along with significant examples and links to external resources. This book serves to help students and instructors with a writing-project-based approach, transforming the research process into an accessible series of smaller, more attainable steps for a semester-long course in research writing. Additional resources throughout the book, as well as in three appendices, allow for students and instructors to explore the many facets of the writing process together.
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Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students
Linda Frederiksen; Sue Phelps · Rebus Community · 2017
Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students is an open textbook designed for students in graduate-level nursing and education programs. Its intent is to recognize the significant role the literature review plays in the research process and to prepare students for the work that goes into writing one. Developed for new graduate students and novice researchers just entering into the work of a chosen discipline, each of the eight chapters covers a component of the literature review process. Students will learn how to form a research question, search existing literature, synthesize results and write the review. The book contains examples, checklists, supplementary materials, and additional resources. Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students is written by two librarians with expertise guiding students through research and writing assignments, and is openly licensed.