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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion".
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Anthology of Medieval Literature
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This e-text of Medieval literature provides a variety of readings that can be used for English literature courses and contains public domain, Creative Commons licensed images, and works for which permissions have been obtained to include in this anthology.
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Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
Timothy Robbins · LibreTexts
This textbook takes a distinctly socio-historical approach to introducing Early American literature. The anthology will allow students to engage with literature in exciting and dynamic ways. The table of contents has been drafted, and we are currently looking for introduction authors and help securing public domain texts.
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Accelerated English
Ashley Paul · Lumen Learning
Accelerated English is your all-in-one guide to college writing success. Covering essays, research, and literary analysis, it blends clear instruction, diverse readings, student samples, and practical exercises. Build confidence, master the writing process, and develop critical thinking skills to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
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Reporting and Writing with the Audience in Mind
John Kroll · Kent State University
"Reporting and Writing with the Audience in Mind" provides journalism and public relations students with the skills needed to become professional communicators. It begins with basics such as news values, interviewing, the summary lede and the inverted pyramid. It includes formulas for common story types, such as speech stories and government meetings. The book introduces advanced concepts for longer stories, photography and multimedia. It concludes with guides to grammar, AP style and more.
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High-Intermediate Academic Grammar for ESL Students
Rebecca Al Haider · Reedley College
This textbook was created for a high-intermediate academic grammar course for multilingual students. According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), this textbook is at the B2 level. By the end of the course, students will recognize and demonstrate the appropriate use of high-intermediate grammar structures.
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A Compact Anthology of Multiethnic American Literature: Student Edition
Jennie Snow · Fitchburg State University
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ENG 232: World Literature II
Sherry “Taz” Rosenthal · LibreTexts
This textbook of world literature covers the time period from 1651 to the mid-twentieth century. In the “Editor's Introductions” that precede each reading, you will find information to guide and enhance your understanding of the reading selections themselves. The introductions are based on close analysis of each of the readings presented here, and intensive scrutiny of their social and historical contexts. Readings themselves are all from openly licensed and/or Public Domain sources.
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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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1.2: Why Read and Write About Literature?
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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British Literature Through History
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the English language and literature.
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Literacy for College Success
Donald Winter and Amee Schmidt · Delta College
This book is a compilation of four primary texts, which we significantly remixed and edited, as well as original compositions of our own. The basis for the organization and the majority of the first two chapters of this book are adapted from Fran Bozarth’s Reading & Writing for Learning.
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British Literature I - Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism
Bonnie J. Robinson & Laura Getty · University of North Georgia
This anthology follows the shift of monarchic to parliamentarian rule in Britain, and the heroic epic to the more egalitarian novel as genre. This text features: Original introductions to The Middle Ages; The Sixteenth Century: The Tudor Age; The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Revolution; and Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century.
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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
Learn what it means to think like an historian! Units on “Thinking Historically,” “Reading Historically,” “Researching Historically,” and “Writing Historically” describe the essential skills of the discipline of history. “Performing Historically” offers advice on presenting research findings and describes some careers open to those with an academic training in history.
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Getting to Know You - An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
In this ESL module you will learn how to interview a classmate and write a profile, or short biography. The module includes reading and vocabulary lessons, listening and speaking exercises, writing practice and grammar lessons.
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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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ESL 130: Low Intermediate ESL Writing
Heather Zettelmaier · Washtenaw Community College
This OER writing textbook covers writing sentences, summaries, opinions, and narratives, as well as improving spelling and grammar.
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Teaching Autoethnography - Personal Writing in the Classroom
Melissa Tombro · SUNY The Fashion Institute of Technology
This text is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition.
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Cicero's de Imperio
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Cyborgs and Centaurs: Academic Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Liza Long · College of Western Idaho
Cyborgs and Centaurs provides a guided approach to the academic research and writing process for first-year composition students. The book incorporates generative artificial intelligence prompts and exercises to strengthen learning, explore ethical concerns, and develop a personal writing process.