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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic
Douglas Drabkin · Fort Hays State University
This text seeks to help students develop reading proficiency in Tajik at advanced level through authentic texts written for native speakers and provides them glimpses into the history, culture and society of Tajikistan without losing its focus on cultural aspects of the country—an aspect that constitutes a core component in the second language acquisition. The book can be adopted by instructors as a supplementary or the main textbook for advanced-level courses.
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Introduction to College Composition
Caroline Hopper Scott · College of the Siskiyous
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A Short Guide to Argumentative Writing
Mary Jo M. Keiter · HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
Writing clear and convincing arguments is an important skill as a student.
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Placing the History of College Writing - Stories from the Incomplete Archive
Nathan Shepley · University of Houston
In Placing the History of College Writing, Nathan Shepley argues that pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing's physical, social, and discursive surroundings. Even if the immediate outcome of student writing is to generate academic credit, Shepley shows, the writing does more complex rhetorical work.
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7.13: Hill, Sean. "Distance Between Desires" from Dangerous Goods (2013)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Beyond Argument - Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change
Sarah Allen · University of Northern Colorado
This text 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 sometime in our own.
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Light Bulb: Rhetoric and Composition
Tonia Pahari · Chattahoochee Technical College
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ESL: Beginning Reading and Writing (ESL130)
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ESL 130 is for Coalinga College students whose native language is not English. This course emphasizes beginning reading, basic grammar, and sentence writing. Students may enroll in 1 unit (6 weeks of study), 2 units (12 weeks of study), or 3 units (18 weeks of study) per semester.
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Explorations 1: Grammar for the Experienced Beginner
Susan Caisse, Kristee Emens-Hesslink, & Jennifer Rueda · Clackamas Community College
Welcome to Explorations 1: Grammar for the Experienced Beginner. This English grammar textbook was designed for a class of Clackamas Community College (CCC) ESOL students who need only a review of the BE verb and are ready to learn the simple present and present progressive tenses.
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John Metoyer's English 97
John Metoyer · City Colleges of Chicago
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How Arguments Work: A Guide to Reading, Writing and Analyzing Texts in College
Karen Woodring · Harrisburg Area 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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Playwriting
Nick Garcia · Los Medanos College
This book is a resource designed to help guide you through the essential components of a play and is designed to serve as a guide to helping you develop a process for your writing that has been proven over time to be successful. These lessons are garnered from many books, interviews, classes, and life lessons on playwriting and story development.
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English for All Disciplines
Nicole Otero · Kapiolani Community College
In this book you will learn language patterns and U.S. academic customs to help you succeed in all your college courses, and in your life as a U.S. college student.
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English 101
Dylan Altman · Oxnard College
Welcome to the readings for our English 101 class! You will find the essay prompt at the start of each Chapter or Level, and you find the readings on the following pages. This course provides development of skills in written expression, especially expository themes, including training in research techniques and preparation of a research paper. It is designed to develop critical thinking, analytical, and rhetorical skills.
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A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing (Gagich and Zickel)
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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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Virgil's Aeneid
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College Skills: Intermediate English Part 2
Christine M. Nowik · Harrisburg Area Community College
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Critical Thinking Through Literature
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap · LibreTexts
This course offers instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing, critical thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and proper documentation through the study of literary works from major genres, while developing students’ close reading skills and promoting an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of literature.
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Off the Shelf: A Digital Anthology of Classic and Contemporary Short Stories
Stephen Logan and Heather Thompson-Gillis · Columbus State Community College
This text is an online collection of short fiction created to serve as an accessible and affordable option for college-level introduction to fiction courses. The fiction included in this anthology represent a diverse selection of authors from the nineteenth century to today, and it also contains support material including an introduction, key concepts, literary terminology and literary theories.