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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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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
Kristen O'Dell Brumfield · Onondaga Community College
Is American literature defined by geographical boundaries? What is the difference between American literature and American history? How does the in-depth study of early American literature prompt us rethink representations of American culture today? In our global era, it is clear that past definitions of American literature must be revisited. This anthology moves to answer the question “what is American literature?” by framing the texts in new and provocative ways that fit the modern age.
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Advanced ESL Grammar and Composition
Clara Urionabarrenechea & Jenell Rae · East Los Angeles College
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5.3: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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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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English 102
Dylan Altman · Oxnard College
Welcome to the readings for our English 102 class! You will find essay prompts at the start of each Chapter or Level, and then you will find the readings on the following pages. This is a compilation of literature that we will be using in English 102. This course provides will focus on comics as literature, short stories and enigma, Shakespeare's use of soliloquy in Hamlet, and poetry as a vehicle of expression.
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FILM 12: Screenwriting and Visual Storytelling
Daniel Yi · Chabot College
This text on Screenwriting and visual storytelling is focused on crafting narrative films, teaching students how to develop, write, and format scripts for visual media. The text covers character development, plot structure, and visual storytelling techniques, often culminating in a completed short film script.
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Rhetoric - What, Why, and How?
Skyline English Department · Skyline College
First off, rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the ability of writers and speakers to inform, persuade and motivate. This textbook, Skyline’s Writing & Reading Rhetoric, was written by English teachers at Skyline College with contributions from our Librarians and ESOL teachers with the goal of providing clear and consistent instruction on how to recognize and apply successful writing, reading, and research strategies.
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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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English 101-97: Readings, Activities, and Assignments by Professor Angelica Davila
Angelica Davila · City Colleges of Chicago
Readings, Activities, and Assignments by Professor Angelica Davila is ideal for teaching English 101-97 at City Colleges of Chicago.
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13.7: Integrating Quotations Smoothly (Avoid Floating Quotations)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Spanish Grammar Manual
Enrique Yepes · Bowdoin College, Colegiatura Colombiana, & Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
This is a bilingual grammar manual for advanced students. It can be used for general review and reference in courses from second-year Spanish (B2) up.
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Introduction to Literature and Critical Thinking
Cristina Lopez-Bowlin · Oxnard College
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Academic Writing for English 101-97
Holly Morrison · The City Colleges of Chicago
Academic Writing for English 101-97 by Professor Holly Morrison.
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English C1000 at Gavilan POCR Pathway
Binh Vo · Gavilan College
This text is designed for a semester-long, college-level composition course intended for English 1A students. It is divided into 11 chapters, addressing different aspects of the writing process including the academic research paper. The last chapter is a database of texts for supplemental college-level reading and writing integration. This text focuses primarily on nonfiction, as intended for English 1A students.
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Pocket Style Guide
Matthew Samra et al. · Kellogg Community College
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The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories
Jarlath Killeen · Trinity College Dublin
This book provides a robustly theorized and thoroughly historicized account of the ‘beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape.
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Cicero's Philippic
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English 96: Academic Reading and Diverse Thinking
Ayana Rhodes · City Colleges of Chicago
Two modules on academic reading and diverse thinking skills as well as an annotation exercise.
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Legal Writing Manual
Jean Mangan et al. · University System of Georgia
This text provides an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. On the other hand, this manual does not answer every question on every legal writing concept; it is certainly not a spell book that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing.