Book Adaptation Details
The chapters in Say it Well are adapted from various sections of Writing for Success, with some content also drawn from Integrated Reading and Writing, The Word on College Reading and Writing, and Let’s Get Writing, each of which is available under a Creative Commons license allowing adaptation. Each chapter was revised for consistency and accessibility—merging, updating, or supplementing original material with new examples, templates, and notes. Figures were enhanced with alt text, outdated references removed, and formatting aligned across chapters.
Table A.1 Adaptation Details
| Chapter | Source | Notes |
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| 1 | Ch 1 of Writing for Success Ch 6.1 of Writing for Success Original content Ch. 1.4 created by Claire Boor Reference to Ch. 2.4 from Integrated Reading and Writing
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Added original content: template for Block Letter Style with peer review; Edited for names of chapter references within Writing for Success (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); Deleted preview list of subchapters for all chapters; Link to Integrated Reading and Writing (CC BY NC SA 4.0) ch. 2.4 by Sravani Banerjee, Elizabeth Eckford, Nicholas Goodwin, Robin Hahn, and Binh Vo in Ch 1.5; Created Letter to students and abstract. |
| 2 | Ch 2 & 4 of Writing for Success Ch 10.6.6 of Integrated Reading and Writing Content from Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence |
Integrated chapter 4 of Writing for Success as chapter 2 of Say It Well; Added chapter section about writing concisely, sourced from Integrated Reading and Writing (CC BY NC SA 4.0); Updated format to align with the format of other chapters. Added a note in chapter 2.9 about use of “they” as a singular pronoun. In 2.4 added content from Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill (CC BY NC-SA 4.0). |
| 3 | Ch 9 of Writing for Success | The first section, including the figure, is sourced from Let's Get Writing (CC BY NC SA 4.0). Section by Kathy Bolan; Added alternative text to figures. |
| 4 | Ch 3 of Writing for Success | Updated dates to be more current; Added learning objectives to certain sections. Deleted references to other chapters from previous iteration; Added chapter section about run on sentences, comma splices and fragments, sourced from Integrated Reading and Writing (CC BY NC SA 4.0); Added Best Editing and Grammar Resources (a Links List) from The Word on College Reading and Writing (CC BY NC 4.0), by Carol Burnell, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, and Nicole Rosevear. In 4.1, the section "Commas Before Conjunctions in Compound Sentences" is from Integrated Reading and Writing 9.2.13: Missing Comma in Compound Sentence In 4.10 added Best Editing and Grammar Resources (a Links List) from The Word on College Reading and Writing . |
| 5 | Chapter 2 & 7 of Writing for Success | Adapted parts of chapter 2 and 7 of Writing for Success (CC BY NC SA 4.0) to this chapter. |
