Course Terms of Use

All Saylor Academy courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. For licensing purposes, a "course" is defined as the structure, syllabus, learning outcomes, unit descriptions, and the framing text that accompanies resources curated from third parties. That excludes the third party resources themselves, including the following resources used in this course, which contain the individual licenses listed below:

California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office Resources:

  • Attributed to California Community Colleges
  • Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Essential Study Skills Wikispace Resources:

  • Attributed to Essential Study Skills
  • Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Boundless  Resources:

  • Attributed to Boundless and respective authors
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Handbook for Writers

  • Attributed to Essential Study Skills
  • Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Writing for Success

  • Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor.
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Cardiff University, University Library Service: "Paraphrasing and Summarizing"  

Brock University: BrockLibrary: "What Is Plagiarism and How to Avoid It"

Allison Schroll's "Transitional Devices" 

Lauren Patty's "Types of Essays

David Hunter's "Elements of Expository Essays"

Australian College of Applied Psychology: ACAP Student Learning Support: "Reflective Writing"

Yeditepe University Writing Center Wikispace: "How to Write a Research Paper"

Humboldt State University Wikispace: "Writing Introductions and Conclusions"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies: "Resources for Writers: Introduction Strategies"

The Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Resources:

powers806: "Steps for Planning to Write an Argument"

Literacy4DS: "Active Reading"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/WSBCTC Resources:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center Resources:

All other resources are copyrighted, and may not be reproduced without the explicity permission from the copyright holder.

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