Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Writing, Reading, and College Success: A First-Year Composition Course for All Learners
Athena Kashyap & Erika Dyquisto · City College of San Francisco
In the contents: 01: Writing and College Success · 1.02: Becoming a Successful College Student · 4.03: The College Essay Assignment- Analysis Rubrics and Critical Thinking
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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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College Success and Advanced ESL Writing
Talley Caruso · Chabot College
This textbook enables college success with a particular focus on ESL (English as a Second Language) students developing academic reading and writing skills. Designed to be both instructional and accessible, this resource blends foundational writing instruction with targeted support for multilingual learners, empowering students to grow as confident, critical readers and effective academic writers.
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Successful College Composition (Crowther, et al.)
Gina Hogan · Citrus College
In the contents: 1.01: Becoming a Successful Writer
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A Guide to Successful College Writing
Cristina Lopez-Bowlin · Oxnard College
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Reading and Writing Successfully in College
Patricia Lynne · Framingham State University
In the contents: 02: Successful College Reading · 2.01: Why Reading in a College Writing Textbook · 2.14: Reading in College and Elsewhere
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Successful College Composition
Kathryn Crowther et al. · Georgia Perimeter College
In the contents: 1.1: Becoming a Successful Writer
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English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods–Based
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 4.06: Writing for Success- Narration · 5.04: Writing for Success- Illustration Example · 6.05: Writing for Success- Compare Contrast
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English Composition- Connect, Collaborate, Communicate
Ann Inoshita, Karyl Garland, Kate Sims, Jeanne K. Tsutsui Keuma, & Tasha Williams · University of Hawaiʻi
In the contents: 1: College Success Skills · 01.2: College Success Skills
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Accelerated English
Ashley Paul · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 1.09: Writing for Success- Narration · 2.02: Writing for Success- Illustration Example · 3.05: Writing for Success- Compare Contrast
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English 96: Readings, Presentations, and Assignments
Paul Butera · City Colleges of Chicago
English 96 is an integrated reading and writing course designed to increase students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities and to promote their academic literacy for long-term success. This course provides a structured, rigorous learning environment that nurtures student engagement through a shared, sustained classroom experience, and it fosters collaboration in a curriculum that respects students’ individuality and humanity and that prepares them to meet college-level expectations.
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Playwriting
Nick Garcia · Los Medanos College
This book is a resource designed to help guide you through the essential components of a play and is designed to serve as a guide to helping you develop a process for your writing that has been proven over time to be successful. These lessons are garnered from many books, interviews, classes, and life lessons on playwriting and story development.
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Basic Reading and Writing (Lumen)
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: Module 1: Success Skills · 1.1: Introduction to Success Skills · 1.2: Habits for Success
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Rhetoric and Composition
Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead · Bay College
In the contents: 01: Reading and Writing in College
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About Writing - A Guide
Robing Jeffrey · Klamath Community College
This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students!
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EmpoWord - A Student-Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers
Shane Abrams · Ashland High School
EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
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A Guide to Rhetoric Genre and Success in First Year Writing - CSN Edition
Angela Spires, Brendan Shapiro, Geoffrey Kenmuir, Kimberly Kohl, and Linda Gannon · College of Southern Nevada
In the contents: 1.01: What is a College Writing Course
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Basic Reading and Writing
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 03: Module 1- Success Skills · 3.01: Why It Matters- Success Skills · 3.02: Performance Assessment- Success Skills Journal
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ENG-001A: Composition and Reading
Jill Bonds · Coalinga College
In the contents: 1.01: Becoming a Successful Writer · 2.3.05: Becoming a Successful Writer · 2.4.03: In College Everythings an Argument- A Guide for Decoding College Writing Assignments
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English Composition I
Nathan Rundquist · Minnesota State University Moorhead
In the contents: 01: College Success Skills · 1.02: College Success Skills