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This book is a compilation of several Creative Commons textbooks and resources. This book pulls from the following sources:

• Critical Thinking by Andrew Gurevich is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Writing in College by Amy Guptill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Writing for Success is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2011 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.
• Academic Writing I by Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Rhetoric and Persuasion by cwilliams1 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Writing & Research in the Disciplines: Advanced Composition at the University of Mississippi is currently an online textbook published on Lumen Learning and unless otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
• Chapter 5.3 “Styles of Argument” is pulled from “Making an Argument”, section 6.3 from the book Communication for Business Success (v. 1.0). This book is licensed under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa 3.0 license. The publisher has asked for the customary Creative Commons attribution to the original publisher, authors, title, and book URI to be removed. Additionally, per the publisher’s request, their name has been removed in some passages. 
• 88 Open Essays – A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric by Sarah Wangler & Tina Ulrich is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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