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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education
Lapum et al. · Ryerson University
This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices in the journey of scholarly writing in the context of the nursing profession. This resource is designed for students in undergraduate nursing programs and may also be useful for students in other health-related post-secondary programs, graduate students, and healthcare providers.
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English Literature I
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
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Reading and Writing Successfully in College
Patricia Lynne · Framingham State University
This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.
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College Writing and Beyond
Brandy Wilds · Coalinga College
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Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
Lumen · LibreTexts
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Critical Thinking Through Literature
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
This chapter 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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Grammar Essentials
Excelsior Online Writing Lab · LibreTexts
The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.
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English 101-97: Corporate Farms, Universal Basic Income and Ethical Consumerism-Readings and Assignments
Beth Harris · City Colleges of Chicago
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Voices of Resistance: Gender, Identity, and Power in Women's Literature
Helen Doss · City Colleges of Chicago
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Advanced Spanish Language and Composition
Katherine Karr-Cornejo · Whitworth University
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The Roadrunner’s Guide to English
Jenny Crisp · Dalton University
This online book is designed to help students learn the skills they will need to do well in college-level classes. Some courses will focus on writing, some on reading, and some on a combination of the two; this book is designed to work with all of those classes.
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Thematic Reading Anthology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This anthology is a curated collection of openly licensed primary texts, organized thematically, designed to be used as a reader in English composition courses. Includes personal essays, literature, video and audio files, Web writings, and long-form journalism, along with customizable assignments and instructor resources. This anthology was initially curated using materials from a variety of open sources.
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Compact Anthology of World Literature
Laura Getty & Kyounghye Kwon · University of North Georgia
A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and European works, with only the British authors who were the most influential to European and non-Western authors (such as Shakespeare, whose works have influenced authors around the world to the present day).
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Reading and Writing for Learning
Fran Bozarth · Portland Community College
This text aims to improve reading through work on vocabulary development, motor skills, comprehension and some reading rate improvement. Instruction includes sentence structure, paragraph and essay development, and written expression. Students can expect to increase working vocabulary and improve skills in basic communications.
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Smart Arguments: Critical Thinking and Writing for College
Angelina Misaghi · Santa Monica College
This book is designed for English C1001, the critical thinking and writing course at Santa Monica College. It is built from Anna Mill's How Arguments Work, with additional materials added to new chapters such as essay prompts, sample essays, peer review forms, and other handouts.
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ESL Academic Writing
Pince George's Community College
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Basic Reading and Writing (Lumen)
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
Basic Reading and Writing builds a solid foundation around core aspects of the writing process: critical reading; methodical writing; research and documentation; practical grammar and punctuation. An optional module introduces core principles for college success that help students understand and develop good habits to improve their performance in this and other college courses.
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4.2: The Writing Process for Literary Essays
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Intermediate Reading and Writing
Rebecca Al Haider · Reedley College
Intermediate-level reading/writing textbook uses themes from the novel Uprising. Includes pre-reading, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, and writing prompts. Level: 2 below TLEE