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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Meat Identification and Fabrication
Marshall Welsh & William R. Thibodeaux · Finch Henry Job Corps Center & Nicholls State University
This text offers you the opportunity to learn how nature made the domesticated and wild animals for us to harvest, fabricate, and prepare for table service. Along the way, we will explore their physiology and muscle composition as we learn how to divide them into primal, sub primal and usable cuts. The goal is to gain a working knowledge about the proteins we use in our profession and to learn how to make sub primals ready for guest service and the proper cooking methods for particular cuts.
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Guide to Writing
SUNY/Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
This writing style guide covers the fundamentals of English usage and writing. It includes sections on grammar and mechanics, editing, formatting, academic citation and research documentation, including the latest MLA and APA style guidelines. A useful supplement to any academic writing course.
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3.4: Maturity
Michael Rygel and Page Quinton · SUNY Potsdam
Textural maturity refers the the size and shape of grains and the nature of interstitial materials. Compositional maturity refers to the composition of framework grains. A complex set of processes influences these characteristics
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Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with Sources
Trischa Duke, Becky Bonarek, and Steph Mielcarek · University of Illinois Chicago
This textbook is specifically designed for ELSI 043: English for Academic Purposes II, a three-hour non-credit English course for freshmen enrolled in the UIC Global International Accelerator Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The focus of the text is on interacting in various ways with academic sources and popular articles, including paraphrasing, summarizing, responding to arguments, and using sources to support and develop your own ideas.
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Bad Ideas About Writing
Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. · West Virginia University
In the contents: 1.03: First-Year Composition Prepares Students For Academic Writing · 1.04: First-Year Composition Should Be Skipped
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Frameworks for Academic Writing
Steve Poulter · Newman University
This text is quite different from any other textbook or writing system. First, it is designed for a wide range of writing abilities, from beginning to expert academic writers. Writers who are simply unfamiliar with academic writing patterns benefit from sentence-by-sentence templates, prompts, tutorials, and examples. We have successfully applied the system to all academic writers, from 3rd-graders to dissertation writers. Secondly, the book is designed for a wide range of teaching abilities.
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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: 21.05: Composition as a Write of Passage · 21.07: On the Other Hand- The Role of Composition Courses Antithetical Writing in First Year
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Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text's aim is to prepare any student to write analytical essays for the argument and persuasion courses. Specifically, the text's goal is to help give students a better understanding of how to discover, develop, and revise an analytical essay.
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A Short Handbook for Writing Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Allosso & Allosso · LibreTexts
A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling: How to Craft Compelling Narratives
James Thibeault · Bentley University
This OER guide will teach you the basics of creative writing as well as provide various short stories that showcase particular creative writing elements.
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Reading and Writing Successfully in College
Patricia Lynne · Framingham State University
This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.
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Grammar Essentials
Excelsior Online Writing Lab · LibreTexts
The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.
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The Roadrunner’s Guide to English
Jenny Crisp · Dalton University
This online book is designed to help students learn the skills they will need to do well in college-level classes. Some courses will focus on writing, some on reading, and some on a combination of the two; this book is designed to work with all of those classes.
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Thematic Reading Anthology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This anthology is a curated collection of openly licensed primary texts, organized thematically, designed to be used as a reader in English composition courses. Includes personal essays, literature, video and audio files, Web writings, and long-form journalism, along with customizable assignments and instructor resources. This anthology was initially curated using materials from a variety of open sources.
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Basic Reading and Writing (Lumen)
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
Basic Reading and Writing builds a solid foundation around core aspects of the writing process: critical reading; methodical writing; research and documentation; practical grammar and punctuation. An optional module introduces core principles for college success that help students understand and develop good habits to improve their performance in this and other college courses.
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Food Chemistry
Divan Fard · Shasta College
This Food Chemistry text explores the chemical composition, properties, and reactions of foods. Topics include water, carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, acidity, flavor, physical transformations, Maillard reactions, lipid oxidation, enzymes, and fermentation, with emphasis on how chemistry influences food processing, quality, and stability
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The Tongue and Quill
US Air Force · LibreTexts
Military members and civilian employees of the Department of the Air Force must communicate clearly and effectively to carry out our missions. Although we live in an era of rapid personal and mass communication that was barely imagined just a few years ago, our Air Force still requires face-to-face briefings, background papers, and staff packages to keep the mission moving forward. This handbook provides the information to ensure clear communications-written or spoken.
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Critical Thinking
Andrew Gurevich · Mt Hood Community College
Using a combination of the newest findings in hemispheric science, neuropsychology, and brain development, along with the long-established rhetorical algorithms for analyzing the structure of arguments, this course explores the boundaries of critical and creative thinking in pursuit of developing a clearer and more robust model for the construction and deconstruction of various forms of argument.
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Online Technical Writing
David McMurrey · Austin Community College
The Online Technical Writing textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the essential skills and practices in technical writing. It covers various types of documents, including business correspondence, reports, proposals, user guides, and technical manuals, along with their design and formatting principles.
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The Process of Research Writing
Steven D. Krause · Eastern Michigan University
This research writing textbook suitable for teachers and students in research oriented composition and rhetoric classes. A lot of times, instructors and students tend to separate “thinking,” “researching,” and “writing” into different categories that aren't necessarily very well connected. First you think, then you research, and then you write. The reality is though that the possibilities and process of research writing are more complicated and much richer than that.