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Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice
Kristen Munger · Open SUNY · 2016
Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research, early literacy development, literacy assessment, digital age influences on children's literature, literacy development in underserved student groups, secondary literacy instructional strategies, literacy and modern language, and critical discourse analysis. Chapters are written by authors with expertise in both college teaching and the delivery of research-supported literacy practices in schools. The book features detailed explanations of a wide variety of literacy strategies that can be implemented by both beginning and expert practitioners. Readers will gain knowledge about topics frequently covered in college literacy courses, along with guided practice for applying this knowledge in their future or current classrooms. The book's success-oriented framework helps guide educators toward improving their own practices and is designed to foster the literacy development of students of all ages.
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International Advances in Writing Research - Cultures, Places, Measures
Bazerman et al. · LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.03: Access and Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Development in Writing
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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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High-Intermediate Academic Grammar for ESL Students
Rebecca Al Haider · Reedley College
In the contents: 10.03: Reading-Introduction to Physical Development in Late Adulthood
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British Literature Through History
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.01: Development of the English Language
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How History is Made: A Student’s Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline (Cole et al.)
Stephanie Cole, Kimberly Breuer, Scott W. Palmer, and Brandon Blakeslee · University of Texas at Arlington
In the contents: 8.05: Professional Development
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Critical Thinking: Argumentative Reading and Writing (CID ENGL105)
Jill Bonds and Heather Evans · Coalinga College
In the contents: 4.01: Introduction to Argument Development · 7.03: Critical Thinking in Personal Development
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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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Light Bulb: Rhetoric and Composition
Tonia Pahari · Chattahoochee Technical College
In the contents: 2.03: Intro to Rhetorical Modes (Methods of Development)
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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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A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing (Gagich and Zickel)
LibreTexts
In the contents: 4.02: Troubleshooting- Body Paragraph Development
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Technical and Professional Writing
Jessica Jorgenson Borchert · Pittsburg State University
In the contents: 3.02: Methods of Development
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English Composition I
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
In the contents: 3.06: Paragraph Development- Supporting Claims
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Critical Expressivism - Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Roeder & Gatto · LibreTexts
In the contents: 4.04: Emersons Pragmatic Call for Critical Conscience- Double Consciousness Cognition and Human Nature
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Write-What-Matters
Liza Long, Amy Minervini, and Joel Gladd · College of Western Idaho, College of Western Idaho, and Lewis-Clark State College
In the contents: 22.04: Professional Development Learning Opportunities for AI
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Thematic Reading Anthology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 2.01: Video- Language as a Window to Human Nature · 8.06: Can We Use Social Media to Support Content Validity of Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments in Medical Product Development by Margaret Rothman et al
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Children's Literature: Foundations, History, and Practice
Caroline Hopper · College of the Siskiyous
In the contents: 2.01: Cognitive Development and Reading · 2.02: Social and Emotional Development · 2.05: Stages of Reading Development
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About Writing Guide with Handbook, a textbook for English Composition
OpenStax · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.08: Portfolio- Tracing Writing Development · 10.09: Portfolio- Growth in the Development of Argument · 16.08: Spotlight on ... Humanities
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The Word on College Reading and Writing
Carol Burnell, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, and Nicole Rosevear · LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.4.07: Patterns of Organization and Methods of Development
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Creating Literary Analysis
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.05: Student Sample Papers- Todd Goodwins Poes Usher- A Mirror of the Fall of the House of Humanity and Amy Chisnells Dont Listen to the Egg- A Close Reading of Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky · 8.05: Student Writer at Work- Jens Paasens Ecocritical Paper in Development