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Rhetoric and Composition
Becky Rudd · Citrus College
Welcome to the Rhetoric and Composition text, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as a practical guide for students struggling to bring their writing up to the level expected of them by their professors and instructors.
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English Composition II ENGL102 Woodring v.2024
Karen Woodring · Karen WoodringHACC
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ENG-001A: Composition and Reading
Jill Bonds · Coalinga College
In the contents: 8.1.1.07: On the Other Hand- The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses · 8.1.2.07: On the Other Hand- The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses · 13.2.07: Introduction- Open Source Composition Texts Arrive for College Writers
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English Composition I
Nathan Rundquist · Minnesota State University Moorhead
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English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods–Based
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This course is designed to introduce you to the writing, reading, and thinking skills you will need for success at the college level. The course will emphasize personal, reflective, and expository writing. It will also help you develop critical reading skills, which will assist you as you analyze specific writing techniques and strategies you can use to improve your own writing.
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Advanced ESL Grammar and Composition
Clara Urionabarrenechea & Jenell Rae · East Los Angeles College
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English Composition- Connect, Collaborate, Communicate
Ann Inoshita, Karyl Garland, Kate Sims, Jeanne K. Tsutsui Keuma, & Tasha Williams · University of Hawaiʻi
This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for first-year college writing. The content of this textbook is aimed at helping students meet these learning objectives. This textbook contains five sections: (1) Success Skills for College Learning and Intellectual Growth, (2) The Writing Process, (3) Essay Structure, (4) Types of Essays, and (5) Research Skills.
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Writing, Reading, and College Success: A First-Year Composition Course for All Learners
Athena Kashyap & Erika Dyquisto · City College of San Francisco
The goal for this textbook was to revise and adapt the open educational resource (OER) textbook, Writing for Success so that the revision met the current needs of California Community College students. We succeeded in meeting our goal by adding additional scaffolding for developmental and ESL learners to help them with reading, writing, and college success skills; materials for learning in multiple modalities; teacher resources; and expanded materials about the reading and writing process.
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Successful College Composition (Crowther, et al.)
Gina Hogan · Citrus College
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Commonsense Composition
Crystle Bruno · CK-12
This textbook follows California Language Arts Standards for grades 9-12 to provide a generalized understanding of composition and to serve as a supplementary aid to high school English teachers.
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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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88 Open Essays - A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric
Sarah Wangler & Tina Ulrich · Northwestern Michigan College
This book is a free and open resource to composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER rhetoric and writing texts that lacked readings. All of the essays in this reader are versatile rhetorically and thematically. It is arranged alphabetically by author name. Each essay has a series of hashtags that apply to the essay in some way. You can search for essays thematically that relate to topics like education, the environment, politics, or health.
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ENGWR 300: College Composition
Kelsey Ford · Sacramento City College
In the contents: 1.06: Composition as a Write of Passage
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You, Writing! A Guide to College Composition
Alexandra Glynn, Kelli Hallsten-Erickson & Amy Jo Swing · North Hennepin Community College & Lake Superior College
This text is meant to be used in any first year College Composition class or as a general guide to college writing. The book focuses on writing as a process, not a product. The goal is to help students discover their own writing process, trying out different methods and strategies to find what works best for them.
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English 102: Composition II (OER DEI SJ)
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This text introduces methods of research and writing of investigative papers.
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English 101: Composition
Alisa Allkins · City Colleges of Chicago
This texts focuses on the teaching the evelopment of critical and analytical skills in writing and reading of expository prose.
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English 101: College Composition
Adam MacDougall · Oxnard College
In the contents: 5.08: Visual Analysis in Composition and Rhetoric and Literature · 6.11: On the Other Hand- The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses
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English 121- Composition 1
Susan Stafinbil · Arapahoe Community College
This text emphasizes the planning, writing, and revising of compositions, including the development of critical and logical thinking skills. This course includes a wide variety of compositions that stress analytical, evaluative, and persuasive/argumentative writing.
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English Composition II: Rhetorical Methods Based
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
English Composition II is an expository writing course that helps students develop more advanced writing skills than English Composition I. The course also reviews and incorporates some of the same skills. This course teaches research skills by emphasizing the development of advanced analytical/critical reading skills, proficiency in investigative research, and the writing of persuasive prose including documented and researched argumentative essays.
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Reading and Composition
Monica Urban · College of the Sequoias
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