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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.
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ESL Integrated Advanced Reading/Writing 2 (2026)
Phuong Emily Bank and Rachel Cohen-Reyes · Evergreen Valley College
This OER (Open Educational Resources) textbook is designed for non-native speakers of English one level below English C1000, first-year college composition course. Divided into ten chapters, it focuses on the active reading process, writing and research processes, and the integration and connection of these three major skills. The last three chapters focuses on grammar within the context of writing and vocabulary expansion.
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Technical Communication
Chelsea Milbourne, Anne Regan, Morgan Livingston, and Sadie Johann · California Polytechnic State University
This text explores the principles of technical communication. In addition to producing clear and easy-to-read documents, students will also examine the rhetorical dimensions of writing for technical environments. The class begins by analyzing the argumentative and stylistic conventions that govern technical communication. Through this critical analysis, students determine which conventions constitute the field’s “best practices” and will learn to incorporate these within their own compositions.
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Conventions 101: A Functional Approach to Teaching (and Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation
Chauna Ramsey · Columbia Gorge Community College
This is a collection of cumulative units of study for conventional errors common in student writing. It's flexible, functional, and zeroes in problems typically seen in writing of all types, from the eternal "there/they're/their" struggle to correct colon use. Units are organized from most simple to most challenging.
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Writing for Success
LibreTexts
Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements, this book addresses each concept with clear, concise and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate, and reinforce, learning.
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Critical Reading, Critical Writing
Howard Community College · LibreTexts
Curated and/or composed by the English Faculty at Howard Community College
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Let's Get Writing
Elizabeth Browning, Kirsten DeVries, Kathy Boylan, Jenifer Kurtz, and Katelyn Burton · Virginia Western Community College
This introduction is designed to exemplify how writers think about and produce text. The guiding features are the following: (1) Every good piece of writing is an argument. (2) Everything worth writing and reading begins with a specific question. (3) Improving skills takes practice, feedback, and re-thinking, redoing, revising.
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Heritages of Change - Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing
Kisha G. Tracy · Fitchburg State University
Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing is a method for students to think about the social changes that were prevalent during the COVID years and remain important in their wake. Heritages of Change is a lens for thinking and writing about these ideas. Through curation and exhibition as an act of activism, students focus on a specific audience with whom they can communicate authentically about this dynamic world.
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Placing the History of College Writing - Stories from the Incomplete Archive
Nathan Shepley · University of Houston
In the contents: 1.02: Customizing Composition - Students Broadening Behavioral Codes · 1.04: Composition on Display - Students Performing College Competence · 1.05: Rethinking Links Between Histories of Composition
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Beyond Argument - Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change
Sarah Allen · University of Northern Colorado
This text offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the care of the self — an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises to reinvigorate the form and address many of the concerns expressed by essay scholars and writers regarding the lack of rigorous exploration we see in our students' personal essays — and sometime in our own.
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Integrated Reading and Writing
Sravani Banerjee, Elizabeth Eckford, Nicholas Goodwin, Robin Hahn, and Binh Vo · Evergreen Valley 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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Spanish Through Literature and the Arts Indigenous Perspectives on Global Issues
María Datel · Boston University
This Spanish conversation and composition textbook explores indigenous cultures throughout Latin America from a decolonial standpoint which challenges the impacts of colonization and unlearns the legacies it has left behind. We will recognize that such cultures offer insights and alternatives to resolving modern-day crises – including climate change, food sovereignty, healthcare access, and gender inequalities – while refraining from romanticizing an idealized past.
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Guide to Writing
SUNY/Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
This writing style guide covers the fundamentals of English usage and writing. It includes sections on grammar and mechanics, editing, formatting, academic citation and research documentation, including the latest MLA and APA style guidelines. A useful supplement to any academic writing course.
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Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with Sources
Trischa Duke, Becky Bonarek, and Steph Mielcarek · University of Illinois Chicago
This textbook is specifically designed for ELSI 043: English for Academic Purposes II, a three-hour non-credit English course for freshmen enrolled in the UIC Global International Accelerator Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The focus of the text is on interacting in various ways with academic sources and popular articles, including paraphrasing, summarizing, responding to arguments, and using sources to support and develop your own ideas.
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Bad Ideas About Writing
Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. · West Virginia University
In the contents: 1.03: First-Year Composition Prepares Students For Academic Writing · 1.04: First-Year Composition Should Be Skipped
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Frameworks for Academic Writing
Steve Poulter · Newman University
This text is quite different from any other textbook or writing system. First, it is designed for a wide range of writing abilities, from beginning to expert academic writers. Writers who are simply unfamiliar with academic writing patterns benefit from sentence-by-sentence templates, prompts, tutorials, and examples. We have successfully applied the system to all academic writers, from 3rd-graders to dissertation writers. Secondly, the book is designed for a wide range of teaching abilities.
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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: 21.05: Composition as a Write of Passage · 21.07: On the Other Hand- The Role of Composition Courses Antithetical Writing in First Year
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Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text's aim is to prepare any student to write analytical essays for the argument and persuasion courses. Specifically, the text's goal is to help give students a better understanding of how to discover, develop, and revise an analytical essay.
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A Short Handbook for Writing Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Allosso & Allosso · LibreTexts
A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.
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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.