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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Cyborgs and Centaurs: Academic Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Liza Long · College of Western Idaho
In the contents: 1.08: How Do I Get Started with AI Platforms · 04: Writing and Artificial Intelligence · 4.02: Writing with Artificial Intelligence
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College Skills: Intermediate English Part 1
Christine M. Nowik · Harrisburg Area Community College
In the contents: 1.05: Working with Language- Understanding Parts of Speech · 1.07: Study Skills- Setting SMART Goals · 05: Art
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ECED 23103 Literature and Language Arts Early Childhood
Penny Cook & LueCrecy Ragan · Arkansas State University- Beebe
In the contents: 01: Getting Started
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College Skills: Intermediate English Part 2
Christine M. Nowik · Harrisburg Area Community College
In the contents: 2.03: Reading- Stop Comparing Your Life. Start Living It
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Spanish Through Literature and the Arts Indigenous Perspectives on Global Issues
María Datel · Boston University
In the contents: 3.02: Articulo 3 lideres indigenas que han ayudado a transformar las vidas de miles de personas en America Latina · 07: Todo arte indigena es politico Relacion entre arte indigena y activismo · 7.01: All indigenous art is political
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Smart Arguments: Critical Thinking and Writing for College
Angelina Misaghi · Santa Monica College
In the contents: 03: Artificial Intelligence and College Writing · 3.06: Student Essay Critiquing a New York Times Article on the Dangers of AI · 12.06: Getting Familiar with Academic Journal Articles
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Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm
Jennifer Abbott; Todd McDorman; David Timmerman; L. Jill Lamberton · PALNI · 2025
The second edition of Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm equips students to effectively participate in and transform their communities through speech. Drawing on the ancient study of rhetoric, the textbook teaches students informative and persuasive speaking skills to develop and empower their public voice. Unique to this textbook, content is also provided on the democratic practices of deliberative discussion facilitation and rhetorical analysis. Together, these abilities help students recognize divisive civic discourse, counter social injustice, and nurture a healthier and more inclusive society.
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Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice
Peggy Karpouzou; Nikoleta Zampaki · Peter Lang · 2023
Through the burgeoning fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities, this edition examines the changing conception of human subjectivity, agency, and citizenship as shaped by the dynamic interplays between nature, technology, science, and culture. The proposed ‘symbiotic turn’, (the awareness of the multitude of interactions and mutual interdependencies among humans, non-humans and their environment) aspires to explore the complex recompositions of the “human” in the 21st century. By organizing and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue at multiple levels, both in theory and practice, Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies is suggested as a new narrative about the biosphere and technosphere, which is embodied literarily, philosophically, and artistically.
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The Changing Story: digital stories that participate in transforming teaching & learning
Linda Buturian · University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing · 2016
The Changing Story gives you assignments, resources, and examples to use in your teaching and learning. It will also help you think of ways digital stories can be used in your teaching, and help students harness the power of visual storytelling.
NorthStar: Reading & Writing 3 – Fifth Edition
Laurie Barton, Carolyn Dupaqiuer · Pearson · 2019
A textbook that develops academic English Reading and Writing skills, incorporating digital resources to support learners in improving their language proficiency in academic contexts.
NorthStar: Listening & Speaking 1 – Fourth Edition
Polly Merdinger and Laurie Barton · Pearson Education · 2020
NorthStar is rigorous in its approach to critical thinking by systematically engaging students in tasks and activities that prepare them to move into high-level academic courses. The cognitive domains of Bloom’s taxonomy provide the foundation for the critical thinking activities. The Reading & Writing strands are designed to challenge students to move beyond basic comprehension to higher-level analysis.
NorthStar: Listening & Speaking 1 – Third Edition
Polly Merdinger and Laurie Barton · Pearson Education · 2015
This textbook develops Listening and Speaking skills through authentic listening materials, communicative activities, pronunciation practice, vocabulary and grammar expansion, and group projects. It integrates online content, assessment tools, and MyEnglishLab resources to support personalized learning, track progress, and enhance students’ ability to use English in real-world contexts.
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Beyond Dichotomy - Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies
Steven J. Corbett · George Mason University
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.
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English 102
Dylan Altman · Oxnard College
In the contents: 2.04: Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart
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Rhetoric - What, Why, and How?
Skyline English Department · Skyline College
In the contents: 13.03: Poetry Chart and Practice · 15.04: Articles
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Commonsense Composition
Crystle Bruno · CK-12
In the contents: 09: Parts of Speech · 9.02: Basic Parts of Speech · 10: Parts of the Sentence
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Oral Interpretation of Literature
Anna Martinez · Clovis Community College
An OER intended for a college course on the oral performance of literary texts.
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LIT 232: Survey of British Literature II
Skyline English Department · Skyline College
Study of the typical works of major British writers from the 19th Century to the present.
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Color Theory and Composition
Lauren Champlin · Rio Hondo College
Color is a language with the unique ability to communicate both meanings and direct sensations. Picture a row of flags: color information of striped bands is used to distinguish country affiliation. Now, on the other hand, imagine standing in front of a Rothko painting: entering fields of red and orange raises your heart rate slightly, makes you feel warm, excited, complex emotions. We are immersed in the language of color. From rainbows to stop signs to paint, color can function as code, sensa
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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion".