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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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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.
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People and Places: An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
This module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level in college. It is recommended for the first few weeks of a semester, since it covers fundamental sentence grammar and basic email communication etiquette. Academic language skills you will practice include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical analysis.
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Naming the Unnameable - An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
Michelle Bonczek Evory · Western Michigan University
Michelle Bonczek Evory's text offers practical advice and strategies for developing a writing process that is centered on play and supported by an understanding of America's rich literary traditions. With consideration to the psychology of invention, Evory provides students with exercises aimed to make writing in its early stages a form of play that gives way to more enriching insights through revision and embracing the writing of poetry as both a love of language.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Reading and Writing Successfully in College
Patricia Lynne · Framingham State University
This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.
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Critical Thinking Through Literature
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
This chapter offers instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing, critical thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and proper documentation through the study of literary works from major genres, while developing students’ close reading skills and promoting an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of literature.
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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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Voices of Resistance: Gender, Identity, and Power in Women's Literature
Helen Doss · City Colleges of Chicago
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The Roadrunner’s Guide to English
Jenny Crisp · Dalton University
This online book is designed to help students learn the skills they will need to do well in college-level classes. Some courses will focus on writing, some on reading, and some on a combination of the two; this book is designed to work with all of those classes.
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Thematic Reading Anthology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This anthology is a curated collection of openly licensed primary texts, organized thematically, designed to be used as a reader in English composition courses. Includes personal essays, literature, video and audio files, Web writings, and long-form journalism, along with customizable assignments and instructor resources. This anthology was initially curated using materials from a variety of open sources.
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Compact Anthology of World Literature
Laura Getty & Kyounghye Kwon · University of North Georgia
A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and European works, with only the British authors who were the most influential to European and non-Western authors (such as Shakespeare, whose works have influenced authors around the world to the present day).
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Reading and Writing for Learning
Fran Bozarth · Portland Community College
This text aims to improve reading through work on vocabulary development, motor skills, comprehension and some reading rate improvement. Instruction includes sentence structure, paragraph and essay development, and written expression. Students can expect to increase working vocabulary and improve skills in basic communications.
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Basic Reading and Writing (Lumen)
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
Basic Reading and Writing builds a solid foundation around core aspects of the writing process: critical reading; methodical writing; research and documentation; practical grammar and punctuation. An optional module introduces core principles for college success that help students understand and develop good habits to improve their performance in this and other college courses.
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4.2: The Writing Process for Literary Essays
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Intermediate Reading and Writing
Rebecca Al Haider · Reedley College
Intermediate-level reading/writing textbook uses themes from the novel Uprising. Includes pre-reading, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, and writing prompts. Level: 2 below TLEE
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5.9: Wilde, Oscar "The Nightingale and the Rose" (1888)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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ENG 103: Critical Reasoning - Writing the Research Paper
Rising Scholars Program · Lake Tahoe Community College
This book was compiled specifically for Lake Tahoe Community College's Rising Scholars Program. This course is designed to develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. The course will focus on the development of logical reasoning and analytical and argumentative writing skills. The course will conclude with the writing of a substantial revised research paper. Please return to the program if found.
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Children's Literature: Foundations, History, and Practice
Caroline Hopper · College of the Siskiyous
Children’s Literature: Foundations, History, and Practice is a comprehensive introduction to the study and teaching of children’s literature. Written for educators, pre-service teachers, parents, librarians, and others who care about young readers, the textbook explores why children’s books matter and how they shape children’s imagination, empathy, identity, and understanding of the world. Across sixteen chapters, the book covers major genres and topics in children’s literature, including pictu
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LIT 231: Survey of British Literature I
Ame Maloney · Skyline College
Study of the typical works of major British writers from the 8th to the 18th Century.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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