About ‘Say it Well’

Say It Well: Writing for Real-World Communication, is adapted by (c) Claire H. Boor, Dorothy Conner, Kacy McAllister, and Brandi Quesenberry from a work duplicated and slightly modified by Delta College. Delta College removed chapters 5, and 11 through 15 from the University of Minnesota version. The University of Minnesota version was previously produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) as Writing for Success with the following attribution: “[Author removed at request of original publisher] First adapted edition was by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2015. This edition was adapted from a work originally produced in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that it not receive attribution.”

This adapted edition is produced by the School of Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech with funding support from the University Libraries’ Open Education Initiative. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. In this version, we added original content, organized and edited chapter content based on course need, and made the text course-specific. This work also incorporates exerpts from:

•  Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill (CC BY NC-SA 4.0),
• Integrated Reading and Writing by Sravani Banerjee, Elizabeth Eckford, Nicholas Goodwin, Robin Hahn (CC BY NC-SA 4.0).
• The Word on College Reading and Writing by Carol Burnell, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, and Nicole Rosevear (CC BY NC 4.0), and
• Let’s Get Writing by Elizabeth Browning; Kirsten DeVries; Kathy Boylan; Jenifer Kurtz; and Katelyn Burton, edited by Ann Moster (CC BY NC SA 4.0) which previously adapted some content from
  • English Composition I, Lumen Learning (CC-BY 4.0),
  • Rhetoric and Composition, John Barrett, et al. (CC-BY-SA 3.0), and
  • Writing for Success, (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

Further information is provided in the Book Adaptation Details, located at the end of the book.

Cover art: Adapted from “Torg Bridge” (c) Paul Kurlak. CC BY 2.0