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Writing as Material Practice: Substance/ surface and medium

Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations/ and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials/ techniques/ colour/ scale/ orientation ...Read More
Writing for Electronic Media

Welcome to Writing for Electronic Media/ an OER textbook. OER stands for Open Educational Resource/ which means it’s free for all who access. Since it is electronic/ I will do what I can to keep it updated with the changing media. People’s viewing habits are changing as they migrate to ...Read More
Writing for Strategic Communication Industries

Good writing skills are important in today's competitive work environment. This is especially the case for communication-related professions such as public relations/ brand communication/ journalism/ and marketing. Writing for Strategic Communication Industries emphasizes practical application of academic inquiry to help readers improve their writing skills. This book gives readers: Straightforward ...Read More
Writing for Success

Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps/ builds writing/ reading/ and critical thinking/ and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements/ this book addresses each concept with clear/ concise and effective examples that ...Read More
Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence

Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text ...Read More
Writing in Knowledge Societies

The editors of Writing in Knowledge Societies provide a thoughtful/ carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple/ subtle/ yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic/ articulating the central role ...Read More
Writing Instruction Tips For Automated Essay Graders: How To Design an Essay for a Non-human Reader

As schools/ as well as the workplace/ become more automated/ and remote or distance learning/working becomes the “new normal/” understanding and leveraging artificial intelligence will become a critical skill.
Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places

Emerging from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project/ this collection of essays is meant to inform decision-making by teachers/ program managers/ and college/university administrators considering how writing can most appropriately be defined/ managed/ funded/ and taught in the places where they work. Writing Programs Worldwide offers an important global perspective to ...Read More
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Vol. I

Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing/ much like the modelmade famous by Wendy Bishop's “The Subject Is . . .” series. In eachchapter/ authors present their unique views/ insights/ and strategies forwriting by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing ...Read More
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Vol. II

Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter/ authors present their unique views/ insights/ and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences/ these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger ...Read More
Writing Spaces Web Writing Style Guide

The Writing Spaces Web Writing Style Guide was created as a crowdsourcing project of Collaborvention 2011: A Computers and Writing Unconference. College writing teachers from around the web joined together to create this guide (see our Contributors list). The advice within it is based on contemporary theories and best practices. While the text was originally written for students in undergraduate writing classes/ it can also be a suitable resource for other writers interested in learning more about writing for the web. This document is available as a web text for reading online/ a printer-friendly PDF/ and an EPUB ereader versions.
Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present

Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present is a text that surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism/ realism/ naturalism/ modernism/ and modern literature.
Writing Unleashed: Content and Structure - 3.0

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.
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu

The purpose of this text is to provide a reference for University level assembly language and systems programming courses. Specifically/ this text addresses the x86-64 instruction set for the popular x86-64 class of processors using the Ubuntu 64-bit Operating System (OS). While the provided code and various examples should work ...Read More
Yet Another Calculus Text

I intend this book to be/ firstly/ a introduction to calculus based on the hyperrealnumber system. In other words/ I will use infinitesimal and infinite numbers freely. Just as most beginning calculus books provide no logical justification for the real number system/ I will provide none for the hyperreals. The ...Read More
Yet Another Introductory Number Theory Textbook (Cryptology Emphasis Version)

This version of YAINTT has a particular emphasis on connections to cryptology. The cryptologic material appears in Chapter 4 and §§5.5 and 5.6/ arising naturally (I hope) out of the ambient number theory. The main cryptologic applications – being the RSA cryptosystem/ Diffie-Hellman key exchange/ and the ElGamal cryptosystem – ...Read More
Yoga Minds/ Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy

In Yoga Minds/ Writing Bodies/ Christy Wenger argues for the inclusion of Eastern-influenced contemplative education within writing studies. She observes that/ although we have "embodied" writing education in general by discussing the rhetorics of racialized/ gendered/ and disabled bodies/ we have done substantially less to address the particular bodies that ...Read More
Yorùbá Yé Mi

The Yorùbá Yé Mi textbook/ combined with an open access/ multi-media website at http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/yemi/ is an interactive/ communicative/ introductory Yorùbá program. It provides college/university students with basic listening/ speaking/ reading/ and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá. It exposes the learner not only to Yorùbá language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorùbá-speaking people of South-western Nigeria. It contains effective techniques for teaching and learning Yorùbá including tones/ and is user friendly in its approach.
You/ Writing! A Guide to College Composition

This text is meant to be used in any first year College Composition class or as a general guide to college writing. The book focuses on writing as a process/ not a product. The goal is to help students discover their own writing process/ tryin g out different methods and strategies to find what works best for them