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Description
The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric gives instructors and students of college writing courses a single source for information on metacognitive critical reading, rhetorical awareness, and MLA formatting basics as well as interesting and relevant reading and viewing content. Its approach is interdisciplinary, bringing in material from ecology, sociology, psychology, technology, popular culture, political science, cultural studies, and literature. Each essay, website, video, infographic, and poem has been carefully chosen to speak to the Eastern Kentucky University community, but everyone can find something that speaks to our common human experience and our need to communicate and connect with one another.
ISBN
978-1-734328-2-9
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Encompass Digital Archive, Eastern Kentucky University
City
Richmond, KY
Subjects
critical thinking, metacognition, rhetorical awareness, reading, writing, rhetoric
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Parrott, Jill M.; Ashby, Dominic J.; and Collins, Jonathon, "The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric" (2022). EKUOPEN: Open Textbooks. 4.
https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/4
Comments
Publication of this open access textbook was made possible by the EKU Alternative Textbook Grant, funded by the EKU Board of Regents, and by the support of EKU Libraries.