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English Composition II: Rhetorical Methods Based
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
English Composition II is an expository writing course that helps students develop more advanced writing skills than English Composition I. The course also reviews and incorporates some of the same skills. This course teaches research skills by emphasizing the development of advanced analytical/critical reading skills, proficiency in investigative research, and the writing of persuasive prose including documented and researched argumentative essays.
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Exploring Movie Construction and Production
John Reich · Genesee Community College
Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated.
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Anímate: La fonología, la fonética y la dialectología del español
Grant D. Moss · Pittsburg State University
Anímate: La fonología, la fonética y la dialectología del español provee prácticas pedagógicas principales para los que quieran perfeccionar su español (castellano). Las metodologías presentes ayudarán al estudiante a que se centre en la comunicación en vez de en la precisión gramatical.
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Reading and Composition
Monica Urban · College of the Sequoias
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Beginning Japanese for Professionals I
Emiko Konomi · Portland State University
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.
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The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic
Douglas Drabkin · Fort Hays State University
This text seeks to help students develop reading proficiency in Tajik at advanced level through authentic texts written for native speakers and provides them glimpses into the history, culture and society of Tajikistan without losing its focus on cultural aspects of the country—an aspect that constitutes a core component in the second language acquisition. The book can be adopted by instructors as a supplementary or the main textbook for advanced-level courses.
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Introduction to World Religions (NWTC)
Andy Tigert · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This text covers a wide range of religious traditions, including Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and American tribal religions, as well as European paganism and Wicca. It provides an overview of the beliefs, practices, and historical contexts of these diverse religious traditions.
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At The Center
Cathy Thwing and student writers at Pima Community College · LibreTexts
Global issues affect us locally, and local issues affect us individually. This section explores our experience with local/global issues.
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Placing the History of College Writing - Stories from the Incomplete Archive
Nathan Shepley · University of Houston
In Placing the History of College Writing, Nathan Shepley argues that pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing's physical, social, and discursive surroundings. Even if the immediate outcome of student writing is to generate academic credit, Shepley shows, the writing does more complex rhetorical work.
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American Environmental History
Dan Allosso · Bemidji State University
For too long the environment has been considered little more than a neutral background to history. This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present.
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LIBR 318: Library Research and Information Literacy
Kari Wergeland · Sacramento City College
This course provides students with the information competency skills necessary for research and information evaluation. Students will delve into the academic research process as well as gain insight into the vast world of information. The skills acquired in this course are applicable to academic research, on-the-job research, and lifelong learning.
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Critical Thinking in Academic Research
Cindy Gruwell and Robin Ewing · University of West Florida
Critical Thinking in Academic Research will introduce students to the techniques and principles of critical thinking. However, a commitment to lifelong learning is required for critical thinking, it takes more than a single course or reading a book. In order for students to develop their own arguments, they need to find supporting evidence. This text provides guidance on developing research questions and finding resources to answer the questions.
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7.13: Hill, Sean. "Distance Between Desires" from Dangerous Goods (2013)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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American Women's History: Ancient America to the Present
Jennifer L. Altenhofel · Taft College
This is a book about women by a woman. It’s not your typical American history book. It follows the rhythms of women’s lives and begins and ends with their perspectives. Because history is best taught as a story, this book is the story of many generations of women who persevered, labored, loved, and lost. I hope I have done them justice.
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Beyond Argument - Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change
Sarah Allen · University of Northern Colorado
This text offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the care of the self — an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises to reinvigorate the form and address many of the concerns expressed by essay scholars and writers regarding the lack of rigorous exploration we see in our students' personal essays — and sometime in our own.
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Résumer, Synthétiser, Argumenter
Sylvie Clamageran and Henriette Gezundhaj · York University
Le manuel RÉSUMER, SYNTHÉTISER, ARGUMENTER s’adresse aux étudiants de français langue seconde de niveau avancé (3e ou 4e année universitaire, essentiellement). Profitant des possibilités qu’offre le format multimédia, le manuel intègre un certain nombre d’exercices autocorrigés et de présentations sur des points de langue. Ce manuel se présente dans un format multistandard et multiplateforme. On peut le consulter à partir d’ordinateurs, de tablettes et de téléphones.
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ESL: Beginning Reading and Writing (ESL130)
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ESL 130 is for Coalinga College students whose native language is not English. This course emphasizes beginning reading, basic grammar, and sentence writing. Students may enroll in 1 unit (6 weeks of study), 2 units (12 weeks of study), or 3 units (18 weeks of study) per semester.
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Introduction to Apparel Production Workbook
Laurie M. Apple · University of Arkansas
Welcome to Introduction to Apparel Production. Whether you are part of the college class or learning on your own, you will gain important concepts and techniques in beginning apparel production. This workbook is to accompany the activities through in person teaching or online learning.
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Explorations 1: Grammar for the Experienced Beginner
Susan Caisse, Kristee Emens-Hesslink, & Jennifer Rueda · Clackamas Community College
Welcome to Explorations 1: Grammar for the Experienced Beginner. This English grammar textbook was designed for a class of Clackamas Community College (CCC) ESOL students who need only a review of the BE verb and are ready to learn the simple present and present progressive tenses.
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Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé
Annabelle Dolidon and Stéphanie Roulon · Portland State University
Histoires d'Avenirs est un manuel basé sur neuf nouvelles de science fiction française qui s'adresse à un public d'apprenants étrangers (de niveaux intermédiaire et avancé) mais aussi à un public natif voulant approfondir ses connaissances de la science-fiction moderne - après un chapitre préliminaire qui rappelle les bases historiques du genre.