Acknowledgments
- Many thanks to the The Conversation, On the Commons, YES! Magazine, Mosaic, The Comics Grid, The Seattle Star, ProPublica, Boing Boing, Discard Studies, and TED Talks for making their work open and available to students of writing.
- Thanks to Creative Commons for creating the infrastructure and guidance which made this collection possible.
- A special thank you to Linda González who midway through this project challenged us to include more voices from people of color which resulted in this collection becoming more diverse, more interesting, and more useful.
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