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• Entering the Conversation by Naomi Salmon (Editor) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
  • “So You Wanna Be An Engineer, a Welder, a Teacher? Academic Disciplines and Professional Literacies” by Marlena Stanford and Justin Jory is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
  • “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” by Kyle D. Stedman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Writing & Research in the Disciplines: Advanced Composition at the University of Mississippi is published as an OER through Lumen Learning; however, “this courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations”^[1]; therefore, any sections pulled from this collection will have the corresponding licenses and attributions to those sections available at the beginning of the chapter in which the material appears.
• The Process of Research Writing by Steven D. Krause. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
• Claim Your Voice in First Year Composition, Vol. 2 by Cynthia Kiefer and Serene Rock is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, 1st Canadian Edition by Lindsey MacCallum and Teaching & Learning Ohio State University Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing by Melanie Gagich is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted; 5.2 Synthesizing in Your Writing by Yvonne Bruce, Melanie Gagich, and Svetlana Zhuravlova is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• An Introduction to Research Methods in Sociology by Valerie A. Sheppard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research by Ryerson University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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