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About Writing Guide with Handbook, a textbook for English Composition
OpenStax · LibreTexts
In the contents: 16.08: Spotlight on ... Humanities
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Successful College Composition
Kathryn Crowther et al. · Georgia Perimeter College
This text is a transformation of Writing for Success under a grant from Affordable Learning Georgia to Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) in 2015. Section 1.3 was authored by Rebecca Weaver. This text is a revision of a prior adaptation of Writing for Success led by Rosemary Cox in GPC’s Department of English, titled Successful College Writing for GPC Students (2014, 2015).
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The Tongue and Quill
US Air Force · LibreTexts
Military members and civilian employees of the Department of the Air Force must communicate clearly and effectively to carry out our missions. Although we live in an era of rapid personal and mass communication that was barely imagined just a few years ago, our Air Force still requires face-to-face briefings, background papers, and staff packages to keep the mission moving forward. This handbook provides the information to ensure clear communications-written or spoken.
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Critical Thinking
Andrew Gurevich · Mt Hood Community College
Using a combination of the newest findings in hemispheric science, neuropsychology, and brain development, along with the long-established rhetorical algorithms for analyzing the structure of arguments, this course explores the boundaries of critical and creative thinking in pursuit of developing a clearer and more robust model for the construction and deconstruction of various forms of argument.
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Online Technical Writing
David McMurrey · Austin Community College
The Online Technical Writing textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the essential skills and practices in technical writing. It covers various types of documents, including business correspondence, reports, proposals, user guides, and technical manuals, along with their design and formatting principles.
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British Literature II - Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Bonnie J. Robinson · University of North Georgia
British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond features 37 authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the literature developed within and developing through their respective eras. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that has captivated readers in the past and still holds us now.
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English Literature I
Cristina Lopez-Bowlin · Oxnard College
This is an adaptation of British Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century, edited by Bonnie J. Robinson and 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.
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American Literature I
Anne Eidenmuller · Columbia Basin College
American Literature I (1650–1860) examines significant literary works of early American and Puritan literature, the Enlightenment, American Romanticism, and pre-Civil War era. The course includes primary texts (many accompanied by video/audio options), historical background, literary criticism and interpretation, and instruction on writing about literature.
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The Process of Research Writing
Steven D. Krause · Eastern Michigan University
This research writing textbook suitable for teachers and students in research oriented composition and rhetoric classes. A lot of times, instructors and students tend to separate “thinking,” “researching,” and “writing” into different categories that aren't necessarily very well connected. First you think, then you research, and then you write. The reality is though that the possibilities and process of research writing are more complicated and much richer than that.
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Peter and Wendy
J. M. Barrie · LibreTexts
"Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie is a novel published in 1911, adapted from his 1904 play. It tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up. He invites Wendy Darling and her brothers to the magical island of Neverland, home to mermaids, fairies, and pirates. There they encounter the Lost Boys and the menacing Captain Hook, experiencing adventures that blur the line between childhood wonder and danger.
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Open Technical Writing An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing
Adam Rex Pope · University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.
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Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus · LibreTexts
In the following pages will be found a translation of two of the Aeschylus greatest compositions, viz., the "Prometheus Chained" and the "Seven Against Thebes." The first of these dramas has been designated "The sublimest poem and simplest tragedy of antiquity," and the second, while probably an earlier work and containing much that is undramatic, presents such a splendid spectacle of true Grecian chivalry that it has been regarded as the equal of anything which the author ever attempted.
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Write or Left
Sybil Priebe · North Dakota State College of Science
In this book, we'll go over some of the general principles of writing practices as well as advice and tips on how to write creatively, but mainly, you’ll be introduced to as many genres and categories as possible. We won’t get bogged down in doing the writing process “perfectly” or creating “perfect literature.” The goal is to learn about as many genres as possible, practice writing in those genres, and get feedback.
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ENG 231: World Literature I
Brendan Shapiro · College of Southern Nevada
This textbook of world literature covers the time period from earliest texts to c1651. In the “Professor’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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Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap · Open Educational Resources Initiative
This text 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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Writing and Literature - Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Tanya Long Bennett · University of North Georgia
Writing and Literature builds a new conversation covering various genres of literature and writing. Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful visual aids throughout emphasizes the importance of critical reading and analysis in producing a successful composition.
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Methods of Discovery - Online Writing Guide
Pavel Zemliansky · Oslo Metropolitan University
Methods of Discovery by Pavel Zemliansky is an online writing guide that presents research writing as a rhetorical process. It teaches research across multiple genres, covers both scholarly and non-academic sources, includes multimedia and online resources, offers flexible activities for different courses and audiences.
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Grammar Essentials
Excelsior Online Writing Lab · Excelsior College
We speak of this as usage. There are far more usage rules than grammar rules, and they are far more difficult to master. Many of them you just have to learn; and, after you learn them, you have to use them over and over and over in order to incorporate them into your language.
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Scriptwriting for Video, Broadcast, and Digital Media
Noemi Zeigler · Laney College
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9.3: Sophocles. Antigone (441 BC)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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