tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/student-successOpen Textbook Library - Student Success Textbooks2024-03-17T01:48:50Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png16232024-03-17T01:57:52Z2024-03-18T16:57:08ZWhy Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education<img alt="Read more about Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education" title="Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTEzMzMsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--eb21433e9737090495f4060e90ea49a0ad916c7f/081622_RotelProject_TakethisCourse-Final-350x453.jpg" />Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education developed out of many years of thinking about general education courses and curriculums. We, as university personnel, do not always succeed in explaining why we have certain requirements. Even though these courses make up a significant percentage of our college careers, there is not often time set aside to talk about general education and explore its purpose and goals. When we do not know the reason why we are doing something, it can sometimes lead to apathy and even resentment. Once we have an idea of the purpose, then we can start to appreciate and learn. It is worthwhile to spend some time thinking about these purposes, both “official” and personal ones, in order to maximize student learning. This textbook helps students systematically study how general education requirements are developed, their history, post-graduation value, etc. It emphasizes exploration of the significance of individual learning outcomes, especially through the lens of John Lewis’ philosophy of “good, necessary trouble.” For instructors adopting this book, it is designed to assign in its entirety or in parts as instructors can choose to emphasize relevant learning outcomes. It is also designed for use by advisors, especially with advisees who express concerns over taking certain requirements.15552024-01-14T02:49:06Z2024-01-14T02:49:06ZSourcing, summarizing, and synthesizing: Skills for effective research writing <img alt="Read more about Sourcing, summarizing, and synthesizing: Skills for effective research writing " title="Sourcing, summarizing, and synthesizing: Skills for effective research writing cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="500" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA1OTMsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--5147e2c83ada25e986ef4af9f554f8f863212751/Wendy-L.-McBride3b-350x500.png" />An open educational text written by McBride.15522024-01-14T01:14:46Z2024-01-14T01:14:46ZWriting for Inquiry and Research<img alt="Read more about Writing for Inquiry and Research" title="Writing for Inquiry and Research cover image" class="cover " width="813" height="1053" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA1ODIsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--acfd6ff3293038633be77e662c43d59c19eb73e7/writingfor.jpg" />Writing for Inquiry and Research guides students through the composition process of writing a research paper. The book divides this process into four chapters that each focus on a genre connected to research writing: the annotated bibliography, proposal, literature review, and research essay. Each chapter provides significant guidance with reading, writing, and research strategies, along with significant examples and links to external resources. This book serves to help students and instructors with a writing-project-based approach, transforming the research process into an accessible series of smaller, more attainable steps for a semester-long course in research writing. Additional resources throughout the book, as well as in three appendices, allow for students and instructors to explore the many facets of the writing process together.14192023-05-02T22:43:05Z2024-03-17T01:20:37ZReading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students<img alt="Read more about Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students" title="Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="994" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjU1NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--41a1fdb16cfaf863010ae85bd9778f893732ff24/081622_RotelProject_Composition-Lynne-11024_1-768x994.jpg" />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.14142023-04-29T23:44:09Z2024-02-23T19:21:18ZIntroduction to College Research<img alt="Read more about Introduction to College Research" title="Introduction to College Research cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="1002" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjUwMywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e2a627ce260ee8e0a9353897ac62d57d44868692/OER-CollegeResearch-Cover-HappyNewYear-scaled-1-768x1002.jpg" />This book acknowledges our changing information landscape, covering key concepts in information literacy to support a research process with intention. We start by critically examining the online environment many of us already engage with every day, looking at algorithms, the attention economy, information disorder and cynicism, information hygiene, and fact-checking. We then move into an exploration of information source types, meaningful research topics, keyword choices, effective search strategies, library resources, Web search considerations, the ethical use of information, and citation.14022023-04-24T15:20:30Z2024-02-23T23:00:14ZCollege Success Concise<img alt="Read more about College Success Concise" title="College Success Concise cover image" class="cover " width="410" height="524" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjAyOSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--52c13d575c214acea743b776dde4e5822f8eb375/Screenshot%202023-04-24%20at%2010.18.34%20AM.png" />OpenStax College Success Concise serves First Year Experience, Student Success, and College Transition courses, and can also be used as a supplementary resource in courses across the curriculum. With the input of hundreds of instructors and academic success experts, the authors carefully prioritized the most critical topics to align to briefer courses. The offering covers material such as college culture, time management, mindset, study skills, test preparation, financial literacy, health, and planning for the future. While much of the material is very similar to the original College Success book, this version was holistically edited and updated. Users will see additions such as a new section on group work and greatly expanded coverage of stress management and wellbeing. While College Success Concise is a self-contained work with a logical flow and narrative, our open (CC-BY) license and multiple formats allow instructors and students to utilize content from the original College Success text, as well. Ancillaries such as the Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, and Lecture Slides will specifically support College Success Concise. Print copies of this book will be available for the fall 2023 semester. You can sign up to be notified when print copies are available.13472023-02-27T17:01:22Z2024-01-22T14:52:40ZIt’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century<img alt="Read more about It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century" title="It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDU1MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--9e1bddcd8aa41d4b0ad7e08702b1420c6289dc6b/8-350x525.png" />In addition to original material this book is an adaptation of Introduction to Speech Communication authored by Sarah E. Hollingsworth, Kathryn Weinland, Sasha Hanrahan, and Mary Walker with a CC BY-NC-SA license. Introduction to Speech Communication includes original work as well as adapted and remixed material from Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition licensed CC BY-NC-SA, Stand Up, Speak Out licensed CC BY-NC-SA, and Fundamentals of Public Speaking licensed CC BY. It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century also adapted a chapter from Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy authored by Meggie Mapes that is licensed CC BY-NC-SA. The information on “What is an Open Textbook?” is adapted from Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology by Christina Hendricks with a CC-BY license. See the Adaptations section for specific changes. This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. This project features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks technology partner, and workforce representatives. It will enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials will be released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others.The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course13452023-02-16T15:37:47Z2024-01-22T14:52:40ZWriting Rhetorically: Framing First Year Writing<img alt="Read more about Writing Rhetorically: Framing First Year Writing" title="Writing Rhetorically: Framing First Year Writing cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDU0NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7af71bed2dac2b5df264e3eb100f9fbd201c95b7/11-350x525.png" />This course equips students with a strong understanding of how to use rhetorical modes that underpin much academic writing. The textbook covers modes related to creative writing, such as narration and illustration, while also covering analytically-focused modes such as comparison and cause and effect. Detailed assignment sheets are supplemented by helpful student worksheets for each major paper assignment. The book's final chapter includes grammar and style exercises. This textbook has been heavily adapted from material taken from English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods-Based, an OER developed and authored by Lumen Learning. Each chapter’s author has edited and created new content using Lumen Learning’s text as its primary source material, except where otherwise indicated. Where applicable, other source materials have been noted at the chapter level. This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. This project features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks technology partner, and workforce representatives. It will enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials will be released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others.The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course13412023-02-16T15:30:03Z2024-01-22T14:52:39ZRhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class<img alt="Read more about Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class" title="Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDU0MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a7efb2305508315c26988283654291fe3162a009/12-350x525.png" />Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class offers students necessary concepts and practice to learn all the elements needed for successful first year writing and set the stage for future writing success in college. This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. This project features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks technology partner, and workforce representatives. It will enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials will be released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others.The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course.13322023-02-06T20:21:02Z2024-01-22T14:52:38ZThe Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric<img alt="Read more about The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric" title="The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric cover image" class="cover " width="116" height="150" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDUyMSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8f2fe2152f14a86d55af101c9efda9ef07a0531d/thumbnail.jpeg" />An Open Textbook for English 101: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric at Eastern Kentucky University
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