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Introduction to College Composition
Caroline Hopper Scott · College of the Siskiyous
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Light Bulb: Rhetoric and Composition
Tonia Pahari · Chattahoochee Technical College
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English 101: Composition
Jason Dye · City Colleges of Chicago
This texts addresses the development of critical and analytical skills in writing and reading of expository prose.
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English Composition I
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
English Composition I covers all of the essential content about the writing process, rhetorical styles, and writing successfully for college. Students will learn about critical thinking, analysis, argumentation, reflection, and making sound rhetorical choices to write effective academic essays. Students will also learn about techniques for reading, interpreting, and utilizing a variety of sources in their writing.
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Critical Expressivism - Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Roeder & Gatto · LibreTexts
In the contents: 3.04: Is it Possible to Teach Writing So That People Stop Killing Each Other Nonviolence Composition and Critical Expressivism
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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 advance writing skills. The text 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. This course emphasizes on the research process and information literacy.
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Advanced Spanish Language and Composition
Katherine Karr-Cornejo · Whitworth University
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Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
Brendan Fong & David I. Spivak · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Category theory is a relatively new branch of mathematics that has transformed much of pure math research. The technical advance is that category theory provides a framework in which to organize formal systems and by which to translate between them, allowing one to transfer knowledge from one field to another. But this same organizational framework also has many compelling examples outside of pure math. In this text, we will give seven sketches on real-world applications of category theory.
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Introduction to College Composition
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
Introduction to College Composition focuses on helping students practice and strengthen the basic concepts and skills of the writing process: critical reading; process-based writing; research and documentation; and practical grammar and mechanics. An optional module introduces “college success” strategies that help students understand and develop good habits to improve their performance in this and other college courses.
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About Writing Guide with Handbook, a textbook for English Composition
OpenStax · LibreTexts
This text aligns to the goals, topics, and objectives of many first-year writing and composition courses. It is organized according to relevant genres, and focuses on the writing process, effective writing practices or strategies—including graphic organizers, writing frames, and word banks to support visual learning—and conventions of usage and style. The text includes an editing and documentation handbook to provide information on grammar and mechanics, common usage errors, and citation styles.
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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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Horse of a Different Color - English Composition & Rhetoric
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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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Rhetoric and Composition
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Rhetoric and Composition
Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead · Bay College
Adapted from Writing for Success and Edited by Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead Designed by the Bay College Online Learning Department and Bay College Library.
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English Composition
Karen Woodring · Harrisburg Area Community College
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English Composition II - Rhetorical Methods–Based
Lumen · LibreTexts
English Composition II is an expository writing course that helps students develop advance writing skills. The text 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. This course emphasizes on the research process and information literacy.
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ENGWR 300: College Composition
Lyudmila Moraru · Cosumnes River College
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Composing Ourselves and our World
Elizabeth Burrows, Angela Fowler, Heath Fowler, and Amy Locklear · Auburn University at Montgomery
In the contents: 01: Part I- The Composition Process
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International Advances in Writing Research - Cultures, Places, Measures
Bazerman et al. · LibreTexts
The thirty chapters in this edited collection were selected from the more than 500 presentations at the Writing Research Across Borders II Conference in 2011. With representatives from more than forty countries, this conference gave rise to the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research. The chapters selected for this collection represent cutting edge research on writing from all regions, organized around three themes—cultures, places, and measures.