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Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2
Emiko Konomi · Portland State University Library · 2017
This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school. As a beginning level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically for working adults. Explanations are kept concise so as to only cover key points. The main focus is on oral communication and the accompanying audio is to be used extensively. This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course.
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Technical Writing
Annemarie Hamlin; Chris Rubio · Open Oregon Educational Resources · 2016
This open textbook offers students of technical writing an introduction to the processes and products involved in professional, workplace, and technical writing. The text is broken up into sections reflecting key components of researching, developing, and producing a technical report. Readers will also learn about other professional communication, designing documents, and creating and integrating graphics. Written especially for an academic setting, this book provides readers with guidance on information literacy and documenting sources. This book was collected, adapted, and edited from multiple openly licensed sources.
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A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action
Charles Bazerman · WAC Clearinghouse · 2013
The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion" (p. 3). An expression of more than a quarter-century of reflection and scholarly inquiry, this volume represents a significant contribution to contemporary rhetorical theory.
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Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence
Amy Guptill · Open SUNY · 2016
Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes. It provides a friendly, down-to-earth introduction to professors' goals and expectations, demystifying the norms of the academy and how they shape college writing assignments. Each of the nine chapters can be read separately, and each includes suggested exercises to bring the main messages to life. Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to join the academic community as novice scholars and to approach writing as a meaningful medium of thought and communication. With concise discussions, clear multidisciplinary examples, and empathy for the challenges of student life, Guptill conveys a welcoming tone. In addition, each chapter includes Student Voices: peer-to-peer wisdom from real SUNY Brockport students about their strategies for and experiences with college writing. While there are many affordable writing guides available, most focus only on sentence-level issues or, conversely, a broad introduction to making the transition. Writing In College, in contrast, provides both a coherent frame for approaching writing assignments and indispensable advice for effective organization and expression.
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Stand up, Speak out - The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing · 2016
Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking features two key themes. First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication. It is this practical approach and integrated ethical coverage that setsStand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speakingapart from the other texts in this market.
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Experimental Design and Technical Writing for Engineers
Susan Ely · University of Southern Indiana · 2024
This text is intended for undergraduate engineering students completing a technical writing course. As engineers complete technical writing in conjunction with research activities, this work also includes a basic overview of experimental design and the implications of robust quantitative methodologies. Hallmarks of quantitative research, best practices in presentation of data and a brief description of the use of descriptive statistics in data analysis are also provided. Technical communications for engineers often include industry related documents like memos, executive summaries, case studies, quality and process documents, standard operating procedures and requests for proposals. These documents are discussed, in addition to formal technical reports. The text also includes best practices in engineering oral presentations and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on technical communications. Ethical implications of engineering communications are also discussed from a framework of professional integrity as defined by the National Society of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics. Students using this text should be capable of communicating, in both verbal and written formats, in a way that clearly, concisely and correctly conveys engineering principles, projects and concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
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Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
Beth Hewett; Kevin DePew; Elif Guler; Robbin Zeff Warner · WAC Clearinghouse · 2015
Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction, edited by Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew, with associate editors Elif Guler and Robbin Zeff Warner, addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses. Written by experts in the field (members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee for Effective Practices in OWI and other experts and stakeholders), the contributors to this collection explain the foundations of the recently published (2013) A Position Statement of Principles and Examples Effective Practices for OWI and provide illustrative practical applications. To that end, in every chapter, the authors address issues of inclusive and accessible writing instruction (based upon physical and mental disability, linguistic ability, and socioeconomic challenges) in technology enhanced settings. The five parts of this book attempt to cover the most important issues relevant to principle-centered OWI: (1) An OWI Primer, (2) OWI Pedagogy and Administrative Decisions, (3) Practicing Inclusivity in OWI, (4) Faculty and Student Preparation for OWI, and (5) New Directions in OWI. Working from the belief that most writing courses eventually will be mediated online to various degrees, the editors offer principles and practices that will allow this collection to inform future composition theory and praxis. To this end, the editors hope that the guidance provided in this collection will encourage readers to join a conversation about designing OWI practices, contributing to the scholarship about OWI, and reshaping OWI theory.
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The OER Guide to Media Writing
Mark Poepsel · Southern Illinois University
In the contents: 8.03: Hashtag relatable - internal communications
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Oral Interpretation of Literature
Anna Martinez · Clovis Community College
In the contents: 1.02: Communication Apprehension
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High-Intermediate Academic Grammar for ESL Students
Rebecca Al Haider · Reedley College
In the contents: 1.06: Communication Practice · 2.05: Communication Practice · 3.06: Communication Practice
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Cyborgs and Centaurs: Academic Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Liza Long · College of Western Idaho
In the contents: 03: Unit Three- Multimodal Communication in My Field
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English 96: Readings, Presentations, and Assignments
Paul Butera · City Colleges of Chicago
In the contents: 02: Empathy the Key to Compelling Communication-- by Paul Butera · 2.01: Empathy the Key to Compelling Communication--Reading
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Critical Reading, Critical Writing
Howard Community College · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.11: Multimodal Communication
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Placing the History of College Writing - Stories from the Incomplete Archive
Nathan Shepley · University of Houston
In the contents: 1.03: Tracking Lines of Communication - Student Writing as a Response to Civic Issues
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The Grand Grammar Guide (ESL 388)
Brent Warner · Irvine Valley College
In the contents: 2.6.06: Communication Practice · 7.1.06: Communication Practice
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English Composition I
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.08: Introduction to Communication and Professionalism · 1.09: Communication and Context
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Critical Expressivism - Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Roeder & Gatto · LibreTexts
In the contents: 3.02: Communication as Social Action- Critical Expressivist Pedagogies in the Writing Classroom
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Write-What-Matters
Liza Long, Amy Minervini, and Joel Gladd · College of Western Idaho, College of Western Idaho, and Lewis-Clark State College
In the contents: 11.09: Establishing Lines of Communication with the Oppositions Traditional Allies
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Reading and Writing for Learning
Fran Bozarth · Portland Community College
This text aims to improve reading through work on vocabulary development, motor skills, comprehension and some reading rate improvement. Instruction includes sentence structure, paragraph and essay development, and written expression. Students can expect to increase working vocabulary and improve skills in basic communications.
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Open Technical Writing An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing
Adam Rex Pope · University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
In the contents: 1.02: Professional Voice and Technical Communication · 03: Visual Communication and Technical Writing · 3.01: How does visual communication work