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:

Writing Commons Resources:

  • Attributed to Writing Commons
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
  • Original versions can be found here: http://writingcommons.org/

Pavel Zemliansky's Methods of Discovery: A Guide to Research Writing:

  • Attributed to Pavel Zemilansky
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  • Original versions can be found here: http://methodsofdiscovery.net/

Utah State University Resources:

  • Attributed to Utah State University
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5
  • Original versions can be found here: http://ocw.usu.edu/English/introduction-to-writing-academic-prose/writing-process.html

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

  • Attributed to The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.5
  • Original versions can be found here: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/

Wikipedia Resources:

  • Attributed to Wikipedia
  • Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Original versions can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikibooks Resources:

  • Attributed to Wikibooks
  • Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Original versions can be found here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition

WikiEducator Resources:

  • Attributed to WikiEducator
  • Licensed under CC BY 3.0
  • Original versions can be found here: http://wikieducator.org/Critical_reasoning

Connexions Resources:

  • Attributed to Connexions and Rice University
  • Licensed under CC BY 4.0
  • Original versions can be found here: http://cnx.org/

Handbook for Writers:

  • Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
  • Original versions can be found here: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_handbook-for-writers/index.html

Writing for Success:

  • Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
  • Original versions can be found here: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_writing-for-success/

Khan Academy Resources:

  • Attributed to Khan Academy
  • Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
  • Original versions can be found here: https://www.khanacademy.org/

John Muir's The Yosemite:

  • Attributed to John Muir
  • This material is in the public domain
  • Original versions can be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26592  
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