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EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers
Author(s): Shane Abrams, Portland State University
Updated: Sep 16, 2019
Description: 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 in all facets...[more]
Communication Theory
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Updated: May 9, 2019
Description: This book is an introduction to communication theory — the theory of how humans share, encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each other.
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