Acknowledgements
About this Textbook
This open textbook has been compiled, edited, and partially adapted by faculty from the School of Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College using existing open educational sources available through a Creative Commons ShareAlike attribution licence.
This work is part of the FanshaweOpen learning initiative and is made available through a Creative Commons Attribtuion-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence unless otherwise noted.
If sections of this resource appear to contain several writing and/or voice styles, that’s intentional! As a compilation, we have attempted to gather sources that reflect and reinforce the core teaching and learning methodologies we use in our reason and writing curriculum.
Original Sources
We want to acknowledge and thank the following authors/entities who have graciously made their work available for the remixing, reusing, and adapting of this text:
Putting the Pieces Together: Reason and Writing for Success has been remixed and adapted from two existing sources.
- Writing for Success from the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative, which is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license
- Parts of Chapter 2 have been reproduced and adapted from Aaron Tucker and Paul Chafe’s Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research (2018) by Ryerson University and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
The versions listed above of Writing for Success were derived from work originally created, 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. As of December 31, 2024, the original version is no longer available on the UMN publishing platform.
Cover image: image generated using Adobe Firefly Image 3 from the prompt “Unfished puzzle with pieces – red tones.”
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