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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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Research in Color: A hands-on roadmap to literature reviews in the social sciences
Frances Brady · National Louis University
This workbook guides graduate students through the literature review process for a research course, dissertation, thesis, or publication. Through pragmatic and creative activities, students will find and evaluate sources, take effective notes, recognize patterns, and synthesize findings to prepare them for writing their literature reviews.
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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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Beyond Dichotomy - Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies
Steven J. Corbett · George Mason University
How closely can or should writing centers and writing classrooms collaborate? Beyond Dichotomy explores how research on peer tutoring one-to-one and in small groups can inform our work with students in writing centers and other tutoring programs, as well as in writing courses and classrooms. These multi-method (including rhetorical and discourse analyses and ethnographic and case-study) investigations center on several course-based tutoring (CBT) partnerships at two universities.
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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
In the contents: 1.05: Active Social Symbolic Selves - The Pragmatic Tradition within American Social Science
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PRJ 2000: Newswriting for Public Relations
Joel Whitaker · Prince George's Community College
This text explores the research, planning, implementation, and evaluation cycle pertaining to news writing in public relations with a focus on writing collateral, including memos, newsletters, advisories, interview materials, and new releases. The text considers strategies, tactics, and public relations law as it applies to different mediums of communication in the context of corporations, the entertainment industry, non-profit organizations, and the political and government field.
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Persuasion, Critical Thinking, and Writing
Paula Cardwell · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
This text was written to support introductory persuasion courses. Material to support a persuasive critical thinking and writing course is included. Material can be easily remixed or adapted to support a persuasive speaking course.
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Bad Ideas About Writing
Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. · West Virginia University
Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of and antidotes to major myths in writing instruction.
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Critical Expressivism - Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Roeder & Gatto · LibreTexts
In the contents: 4.04: Emersons Pragmatic Call for Critical Conscience- Double Consciousness Cognition and Human Nature
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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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Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew, Editors · WAC Clearinghouse
Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses.
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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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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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Bad Ideas About Writing
Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. · West Virginia University
Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of and antidotes to major myths in writing instruction.
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The Anti-Textbook of Writing
Sybil Priebe · North Dakota State College of Science
Since writing is subjective, the rules aren’t always black and white. What can we do, if writing is subjective and doesn’t have PERFECT rules then? We just practice the genres we know. We give it our best shot. We just practice.
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Writing as Material Practice - Substance, Surface and Medium
Kathryn Piquette et al. · University College London
Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, color, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day.
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Afrofuturism Across the African Diaspora: Empowering Black Students Through Literature
Patricia France and Hajra Ismail Yacooboli · College of Marin
In the contents: 3.03: Poetry- Human Interaction Imagery Science
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Writing Unleashed
Sybil Priebe, Ronda Marman, & Dana Anderson · North Dakota State College of Science
Welcome to Writing Unleashed, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as an extremely brief guide for students, jam-packed with teachers’ voices, students’ voices, and engineered for fun.
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International Advances in Writing Research - Cultures, Places, Measures
Bazerman et al. · LibreTexts
In the contents: 6.03: Immersed in the Game of Science- Beliefs Emotions and Strategies of NNES Scientists who Regularly Publish in English
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Rhetoric and Composition
Becky Rudd · Citrus College
In the contents: 5.03: Writing in the Sciences · 7.10: Writing in the Sciences