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NSCC Open Textbooks

A list of Open Textbooks being used at NSCC. Textbook content boxes are created for NSCC Open Textbook and hosted in this guide. The embed code for Textbook Content Boxes is shared so boxes can be added to Brightspace courses.

Professional and Technical Writing

Professional and Technical Writing
CC BY-NC
Download FREE digital formats or read online.

This textbook for professional and technical communication is a compilation of several Open Resource materials. The purpose in its design is to provide a wide variety of materials on subjects in professional and technical communication, and to offer several different perspectives and delivery modes of those materials.

Digital copies are free.
A print copy can be ordered through the Print on Demand (POD) service.
Buy Professional and Technical Writing – POD

College Skills: Intermediate English

College Skills: Intermediate English
Link to this NEW open textbook from Coast Mountain College.
You can download and use digital versions of this textbook for FREE.

1, 2, 3 Write!

1, 2, 3 Write!
By Gay Monteverde
CC BY-NC-SA
1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

Order a Print on Demand Copy-- Print pages with coil binding.

Digital copies are free.
A print copy can be ordered through the Print on Demand (POD) service.
Buy 1, 2, 3 Write! – POD

Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity
Published in NSCC Pressbooks.

An interactive approach to conveying the values of academic integrity, clarifying the meaning of plagiarism, and introducing the basics of citations, quoting and paraphrasing.

Read online or download to read on your device.