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Teaching Autoethnography - Personal Writing in the Classroom
Melissa Tombro · SUNY The Fashion Institute of Technology
In the contents: 01.3: 2. Getting Started in the Classroom
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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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College Success and Advanced ESL Writing
Talley Caruso · Chabot College
This textbook enables college success with a particular focus on ESL (English as a Second Language) students developing academic reading and writing skills. Designed to be both instructional and accessible, this resource blends foundational writing instruction with targeted support for multilingual learners, empowering students to grow as confident, critical readers and effective academic writers.
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The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
Jo Heirman and Jacqueline Klooster · LibreTexts
This volume presents a number of essays on the ideological role of space in literary texts. The individual articles analyse ancient and modern literary texts from the angle of the most recent theoretical conceptualisations of space. The focus throughout is on how the experience of space is determined by dominant political, philosophical or religious ideologies.
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English 101
Dylan Altman · Oxnard College
In the contents: 4.03: The Defense Department Is Worried about Climate Change and Also a Huge Carbon Emitter by Neta C. Crawford
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Critical Expressivism - Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Roeder & Gatto · LibreTexts
Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit."
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A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling: How to Craft Compelling Narratives
James Thibeault · Bentley University
This OER guide will teach you the basics of creative writing as well as provide various short stories that showcase particular creative writing elements.
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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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The Tongue and Quill
US Air Force · LibreTexts
In the contents: 4.1: Start Smart · 19.1: Getting Started · 20.2: Getting Started
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Transition with Purpose - Pathways from English Language to Academic Study
Michele Miller & Anne Greenhoe · Portland State University
Part one of this textbook is a guide for moving from ESL study to academic study at Portland State University*. It includes the resources students will use to understand policies and processes governing their degree study and their transition to academic coursework. Part two focuses on how academic skills are used across various disciplines and is comprised of activities and assignments designed to practice these skills. In seminars, students will use both sections simultaneously. *While much of
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Chinese Rhetoric and Writing
Andy Kirkpatrick & Zhichang Xu · Griffith & Monash Universities
In the contents: 09: Party Politics the Cultural Revolution and Charter 08
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World Literature I - Beginnings to 1650
Laura Getty & Kyounghye Kwon · University of North Georgia
In the contents: 2.03: The Art of War
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Writing as Material Practice - Substance, Surface and Medium
Kathryn Piquette et al. · University College London
In the contents: 1.04: Materials - Writing as Artefact · 02: The Twisting Paths of Recall - Khipu (Andean Cord Notation) as Artifact (Frank Salomon) · 2.08: Movable Parts
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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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Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice
Ben Fernandez · Ben Fernandez · 2020
Legal Writing I & II; Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice contains a brief discussion of all of the topics covered in a law school courses on legal writing, including a typical first semester course on legal research, analysis and writing an objective memorandum, as well as a second semester course on persuasion and writing an appellate brief, motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment. The discussion focuses on the basics of analogical reasoning and persuasion and leaves out the minutiae. Each topic is taken one step at a time, with each step building on the step before it. The sources of law are presented first, then legal research, and reading and analyzing cases and statutes. The book covers analogizing a case to a fact pattern and marshaling the relevant facts to the elements of a statutory rule next. And then first section of the book concludes with legal citation, CRAC and CREAC, and writing a legal research memorandum. The text also includes a lot of samples and examples of how the author would write a case brief, a legal memoranda and an appellate brief, as well as an appendix with charts, outlines and exercises students can use to practice these skills. Legal Writing I & II; Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice covers all the skills students need to know to work at a law firm, and everything students have to learn to begin practicing in litigation department of a firm.
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Technical Writing and Simple Statistics : For laboratory classes
Stephanie Wettstein · TRAILS · 2022
This upper division resource focuses on how to communicate results through technical writing, use Excel to perform simple statistics, and create professional charts/documents. Excel tutorials are provided for performing descriptive statistics, t-tests, and linear regression as well as using text boxes, formatting figures and captions, and using Equation Editor to insert equations. Additionally, guidance and examples of different communication components are provided along with team writing strategies and guidelines on how to hold efficient meetings. This textbook was designed for Biology and Chemistry majors for a 400 level course.
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Making Meaning With & Through Writing: An Approach to Research Writing
Ilknur Sancak-Marusa · The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT) · 2025
Academic writing is an act of intellectual translation which converts raw ideas into academic discourse to bridge the gap between writer and reader. However, writing is often viewed as a mechanical skill rather than an intellectual craft. This brief text reframes academic writing as a translation process that transforms complex thoughts, research findings, and abstract concepts into purposeful, persuasive writing. Using the writing process as the foundation, each chapter aims to provide a practice to navigate the recursive nature of writing. To that end, fundamental translation principles are utilized to analyze audience needs, understand scholarly articles, synthesize and craft arguments that resonate across disciplinary boundaries. Writing isn’t separate from thinking as it allows us to refine our ideas and share them with others in meaningful ways. Embracing this connection between writing and its impact, positions an individual as an active participant rather than a passive observer in conversations that shape disciplines and the world-at-large. This writing guide seeks to equip students with the essential tools needed to engage meaningfully in the communities they serve and soon will discover.
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Studying the Bible: The Tanakh and Early Christian Writings
Gregory Eiselein; Anna Goins; Naomi Wood · New Prairie Press · 2019
Studying the Bible: The Tanakh and Early Christian Writings is a university-level, textbook introduction to the study of the Bible, its literary forms, and historical and cultural contexts. This textbook is a companion to the Bible courses taught in the English Department at Kansas State University, in particular ENGL 470 The Bible, though it is available for use in other courses and contexts. This textbook examines the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) and the early Christian writings of the New Testament. It is an introduction to the analysis of biblical texts, their histories, and their interpretations. The emphasis throughout this textbook is on the literary qualities of these biblical texts as well as their cultural and historical contexts.
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American Literatures Prior to 1865
Scott Peterson · University of Missouri - St. Louis · 2022
This work was created as part of the University Libraries’ Open Educational Resources Initiative at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. A web version of this text can be found at https://umsystem.pressbooks.pub/alpt1865/. This anthology of American Literatures Prior to 1865, is organized chronologically into four units, focusing on Colonial Literature, Literature of Native American Perspectives and Discovery, Literature of Nineteenth Century Reform, and Literature of the New Nation. It includes introductions to the many authors included to enhance the reader's contextual understanding of the chosen texts. This anthology is essential reading for any student or scholar of Early American literature.
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Compact Anthology of World Literature II
Anita Turlington; Matthew Horton; Laura Getty · University System of Georgia · 2022
The Compact Anthology of World Literature, Parts 4, 5, and 6 is designed as an e-book to be accessible on a variety of devices: smart phone, tablet, e-reader, laptop, or desktop computer. Students have reported ease of accessibility and readability on all these devices. To access the ePub text on a laptop, desktop, or tablet, you will need to download a program through which you can read the text. We recommend Readium, an application available through Google. If you plan to read the text on an Android device, you will need to download an application called Lithium from the App Store. On an iPhone, the text will open in iBooks. Affordable Learning Georgia has also converted the .epub files to PDF. Because .epub does not easily convert to other formats, the left margin of the .pdf is very narrow. ALG recommends using the .epub version. Although the text is designed to look like an actual book, the Table of Contents is composed of hyperlinks that will take you to each introductory section and then to each text. Texts from a variety of genres and cultures are included in each unit. Additionally, each selection or collection includes a brief introduction about the author and text(s), and each includes 3 – 5 discussion questions. Texts in the public domain--those published or translated before 1923--are replicated here. Texts published or translated after 1923 are not yet available in the public domain. In those cases, we have provided a link to a stable site that includes the text. Thus, in Part 6, most of the texts are accessible in the form of links to outside sites. In every case, we have attempted to connect to the most stable links available.