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COUNS 120: Student Success
Justin Wembes · Diablo Valley College
In the contents: 15.03: Your Map to Success- The Career Planning Cycle
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Student Development 001 for College Success
Pedro Garcia and Paige Ortiz · Coalinga College
In the contents: 2.03: Your Map to Success- The Career Planning Cycle
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Engineering Success: A Seminar for First-Year Student
JuEun Lee · California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
In the contents: 03: Topic 03. Strategic Goal Setting for Success in Engineering
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Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students [Revised Edition]
Patricia Lynne · ROTEL · 2023
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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Beginning Algebra
Lumen Learning
This text builds concepts and skills in preparation for student success in subsequent college math courses. Course content includes basic solving equations & inequalities, graphing, solving systems of equations & inequalities, exponents, polynomials, factoring, rational expressions, roots, and rational exponents. With an OER text, aligned OER videos, complete slides, lecture notes, and complete online assessments, this title is a great low-cost alternative to traditional publisher materials.
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MNGT 481: Strategic Management
Precha Thavikulwat · Towson University
This text aims to develop strategic thinking skills that integrate and build on the concepts and practices from functional business courses. Students will practice in-depth analysis of industries and competitors, and work to understand how managers must develop and implement strategies that generate sustainable value for all stakeholders by positioning the organization successfully in its competitive environment.
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Blueprint for Success in College - Career Decision Making 1e (Dillon)
Dave Dillon · Grossmont College
A college students' guide for career success, this free Open Educational Resource text focuses on major identification and career exploration. The Blueprint for Success series comprises three books for the College Success and FYE (First-Year Experience) genre.
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English Composition- Connect, Collaborate, Communicate
Ann Inoshita, Karyl Garland, Kate Sims, Jeanne K. Tsutsui Keuma, & Tasha Williams · University of Hawaiʻi
In the contents: 1: College Success Skills · 01.2: College Success Skills
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The College Success Rulebook: Practical Advice for College and Beyond
Nathan Nobis · Morehouse College
The College Success Rulebook: Practical Advice for College and Beyond offers straightforward, practical advice for becoming a more successful and independent college student. The goa is to develop habits of excellence: habits that can help you learn difficult things, think independently, do good work, and prepare for life beyond college.
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Writing, Reading, and College Success: A First-Year Composition Course for All Learners
Athena Kashyap & Erika Dyquisto · City College of San Francisco
In the contents: 01: Writing and College Success · 1.02: Becoming a Successful College Student
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Basic Introduction to Estate Planning and Probate Practice for Paralegals
Beth R. Pless, J.D. · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 03: Succession · 3.01: Basic Introduction to Intestate Succession · 3.02: Basic Introduction to Testate Succession
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Steps to Success Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice
Kristen A. Munger · SUNY Oswego
In the contents: 1.09: Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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College Success
Amy Baldwin et al. · OpenStax
In the contents: 12.02: Your Map to Success- The Career Planning Cycle
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Academic Success
Bartlett et al. · University of Southern Queensland
In the contents: 01: Successful Beginnings · 1.03: Successful Connections · 02: Successful Foundations
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College 101
Josh Fulton, Shanya Gray, Tish Hayes & Sundus Madi-McCarthy · Moraine Valley Community College
In the contents: 2.04: Policies that support your rights as a student · 04: Enhancing Academic Success · 4.01: Tips for Academic Success
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English 96: Readings, Presentations, and Assignments
Paul Butera · City Colleges of Chicago
English 96 is an integrated reading and writing course designed to increase students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities and to promote their academic literacy for long-term success. This course provides a structured, rigorous learning environment that nurtures student engagement through a shared, sustained classroom experience, and it fosters collaboration in a curriculum that respects students’ individuality and humanity and that prepares them to meet college-level expectations.
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Foundations of Academic Success
Morgan et al. · James Cook University
In the contents: 01: Successful Beginnings · 02: Successful Foundations · 03: Successful Study Skills
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College Success and Advanced ESL Writing
Talley Caruso · Chabot College
This textbook enables college success with a particular focus on ESL (English as a Second Language) students developing academic reading and writing skills. Designed to be both instructional and accessible, this resource blends foundational writing instruction with targeted support for multilingual learners, empowering students to grow as confident, critical readers and effective academic writers.
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Arithmetic and Algebra
Samar ElHitti, Marianna Bonanome, Holly Carley, Thomas Tradler, & Lin Zhou · CUNY New York City College of Technology & NYC College of Technology
Arithmetic | Algebra provides a customized open-source textbook for the math developmental students at New York City College of Technology. The book consists of short chapters, addressing essential concepts necessary to successfully proceed to credit-level math courses. Each chapter provides several solved examples and one unsolved “Exit Problem”. Each chapter is also supplemented by its own WeBWork online homework assignment.
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Math 175: Plane Trigonometry
LibreTexts
This course is designed for students who are majoring in math, science, and engineering. This course equips students with the skills necessary for success in pre-calculus. It presents the concepts of plane trigonometry using a functions approach. Included is a study of basic relations, functions, and transformations, as well as circular functions, trigonometric functions of angles, identities, inverse functions and their equations and solutions of triangles.