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Communication Beginnings - An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners
Della Jean Abrahams · Portland State University
This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities.
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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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Critical Thinking and Literature
Roxann Schmidt · Diablo Valley College
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English 101-97: Readings and Assignments by Professor Lani Montreal
Lani Montreal · City Colleges of Chicago
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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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Tiny Tales from Africa: The Animals I (Gibbs)
Laura Gibbs · University of Oklahoma
Welcome to Tiny Tales from Africa: The Animals (volume 1). This is a collection of two hundred stories from Africa featuring animal characters, and each story is just 100 words long.
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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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English 101: Composition
Alisa Allkins · City Colleges of Chicago
This texts focuses on the teaching the evelopment of critical and analytical skills in writing and reading of expository prose.
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Jane Good - Elementary- Curation 4th Grade-Reading-and-Writing-Trimester-1.zip
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Critical Reasoning and Writing
Noah Levin · Golden West College
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BenU Writing Colloquium
Scott Stillar, Wilson Chen & Maria Granic · Benedictine University
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English 96: Everyday Matters: Writing Toward Social Justice
Rosie Banks · City Colleges of Chicago
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Expression and Inquiry
Chris Manning, Sally Pierce, and Melissa Lucken · Lansing Community College
This first year composition text contains three major sections—Section One primarily focuses on the nuts and bolts of writing to get students engaged in the process of writing and also considering what their point or claim is. Section Two continues to discuss academic writing including research and other inquiry methods as well as analysis. Section The circles back to the techniques of description and narration to engage readers and develop voice in all writing.
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Nepos Hannibal
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English 101: College Composition
Adam MacDougall · Oxnard College
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Grammar Essentials
Excelsior Online Writing Lab · LibreTexts
The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.
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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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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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10.8: Ecocriticism
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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English Composition II: Rhetorical Methods Based
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
English Composition II is an expository writing course that helps students develop more advanced writing skills than English Composition I. The course also reviews and incorporates some of the same skills. This course teaches research skills by emphasizing the development of advanced analytical/critical reading skills, proficiency in investigative research, and the writing of persuasive prose including documented and researched argumentative essays.