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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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British Literature II - Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Bonnie J. Robinson · University of North Georgia
British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond features 37 authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the literature developed within and developing through their respective eras. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that has captivated readers in the past and still holds us now.
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CHN101: Elementary Mandarin I
Carl Polley · Kapi'olani Community College
This OER textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course. This text is used for the course CHN101: Elementary Mandarin I, taught at Kapi'olani Community College in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
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Equipping the Musical Ear
Sierra College · Lauren C. Sharkey
Equipping the Musical Ear is designed to be used in conjunction with beginning music theory courses. This text explores the different areas of focus for standard ear training or aural skills courses (sight singing, rhythmic dictation and performance, melodic dictation, intervals, and harmonic dictation), but in an open educational text and workbook format.
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10: Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-)
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HUST 292: Reclaiming the Classical Past for a Diverse and Global World
Jessalyn Bird · St. Mary'w College Notre Dame
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Speech 101: Introduction to Public Speaking for Social Justice
Carolyn Stevenson · City Colleges of Chicago
This text addresses the theory and practice of oral communication including the development of poise and confidence, delivery, and speech organization. Emphasis is placed on public speaking practice, small group discussion, and development of standards of criticism.
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Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispana
Julie Ann Ward, ed. · University of Oklahoma
Una antología crítica de textos literarios del mundo hispanohablante. Se enfoca en autores canónicos y también se intenta incluir voces marginadas. Cada texto tiene una introducción y anotaciones creadas por estudiantes. // A critical anthology of literary texts from the Spanish-speaking world. A focus on canonical authors and an attempt to include voices that have been marginalized. Each text includes an introduction and annotations created by students.
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English Literature I
Cristina Lopez-Bowlin · Oxnard College
This is an adaptation of British Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century, edited by Bonnie J. Robinson and Laura Getty, University of North Georgia. This anthology follows the shift of monarchic to parliamentarian rule in Britain, and the heroic epic to the more egalitarian novel as genre.
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Fundamentos de la lectura e interpretación
Katherine Karr-Cornejo · Whitworth University
Este libro introduce conceptos y prácticas para la lectura e interpretación de textos en español de una variedad de géneros, épocas y áreas geográficas. Además, incluye información para el desarrollo de estrategias críticas de lectura y competencias avanzadas de expresión en castellano. Es producido para el uso de la clase de Whitworth University del mismo título por su profesora con la colaboración de Dr. Jacob Rapp. Crédito foto "reading - lectura" by el_rogos is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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Modern World History: New Perspectives (OCC Version)
Jordan Stanton, Orange Coast College · LibreTexts
This is a collaborative project involving many authors who look at the history of the modern world through the lens of anti-racism, equity, and social justice. We offer some suggestions for a better way forward for teaching, writing, and thinking about our collective human past. This book represents a start of a complex process of reckoning that history as a discipline must undergo.
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Breve historia cultural hispánica
Enrique Yepes · Bowdoin College, Colegiatura Colombiana, & Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
This quick Socio-Cultural history provides an overview of the chronology of Spain (from the Middle Ages) and Spanish America (from Pre-Columbian times) to the beginning of the 21st century. It can serve as contextual reading for the "panoramic" courses on Hispanic literatures and art which are often taught on third-year Spanish courses in US universities. It is also useful as a reference for classes or conversations on any aspect of the Spanish cultures.
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La guerra civil española para estudiantes
Grant D. Moss · Universidad Estatal de Pittsburg
La guerra civil española para estudiantes usa prácticas pedagógicas principales para los que quieran comprender las complejidades de la guerra civil española (1936-1939), sus antecedentes y sus repercusiones culturales, sociales, históricas, políticas y artísticas. Las metodologías presentes ayudarán al estudiante a que se centre en la comunicación en vez de en la precisión gramatical mientras logre tener más conocimiento sobre la España de entre 1920 y 1945.
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Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetic Theory and Practice
Yuriko Saito, Ruth Sonderegger, and Ines Kleesattel · LibreTexts
Aesthetic Theory and Practice offers fresh perspectives on canonical and emerging topics in aesthetics, and also brings attention to a number of culturally sensitive topics that are customarily silenced in introductions to philosophical aesthetics. The papers are heterogeneous in terms of length and degrees of difficulty, inviting the reader into the study of contemporary aesthetics, which spans a lifetime.
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So You Want to Be a Historian?" A Guide to the Historian's Craft
Kenneth Smith · Taft College
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Span 100: Elementary Spanish II Vivir en las Fronteras
Roman Sanchez-Dominquez · Imperial Valley College
A continuation of SPAN 100 with the main emphasis on the imperfect, preterit, and the present perfect forms for both regular and irregular verbs. The course continues teaching language acquisition in a cultural context through the four basic language skills: hearing, speaking, reading, and writing. Not open to students with native fluency in Spanish and to those students who have studied in a Spanish Speaking country. Course is conducted in Spanish
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Phil 100: Introduction to Philosophy (Haven)
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Students will critically engage with core philosophical issues and questions, found in primary texts, regarding the topics of metaphysics, epistemology and possible other topics such as ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, philosophy of self and a life well lived. This course provides a survey of the discipline in its methodology and subject matter, allowing students the opportunity to understand themselves, their community and the greater pluralistic worl
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A Concise Introduction to Logic
Craig DeLancey · SUNY Oswego
This text is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history; the author uses examples from important and celebrated arguments in philosophy to illustrate logical principles. The text also includes a basic introduction to findings of advanced logic.