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Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students
Contributor: Lynne
Publisher: ROTEL
License: CC BY-SA
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.
(3 reviews)
Introduction to College Research
Copyright Year: 2021
Contributors: Butler, Sargent, and Smith
Publisher: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
License: CC BY
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.
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College Success Concise
Contributor: Baldwin
Publisher: OpenStax
License: CC BY
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.
(4 reviews)
It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Contributors: Kim, Marshall, and Pulliam
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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.
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Writing Rhetorically: Framing First Year Writing
Contributors: Fontenot, Rodrigue, and Waller
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY
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.
(3 reviews)
Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Falik, La Rue, and Watts
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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.
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The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Parrot, Ashby, and Collins
Publisher: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries
License: CC BY-NC
An Open Textbook for English 101: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric at Eastern Kentucky University
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Practicing and Presenting Social Research
Contributors: Robinson and Wilson
Publisher: University of British Columbia Library
License: CC BY-NC
This open-access textbook is for those who want to write exemplary social research. It provides an extensive outline of each step of the research process: outlining practical tools for conceptualizing its beginnings, generating proposals, getting ethics approval, relaxing from the stresses of research, writing academically, conducting a literature review, drafting a methods section, collecting the right data, formulating the findings, and sharing the results. Woven throughout each chapter are testimonies of other students who have likewise persevered through the research process, relating their obstacles, solutions, and motivations to each stage of the research process to illuminate not only the technical goals of research, but also the emotional maturity that research entails.
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Plan para el éxito en la universidad y la carrera profesional v 1.3
Copyright Year: 2021
Contributors: Dillon, Hill, and Lamoreaux
Publisher: Rebus Community
License: CC BY
Blueprint for Success in College and Career es una remezcla de cuatro REA (recursos educativos abiertos) ya existentes: A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students de Alise Lamoreaux, How to Learn Like a Pro! de Phyllis Nissila, Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom, editado por Thomas Priester, College Success, proporcionado por Lumen Learning, y un libro de texto previamente protegido por derechos de autor con contenido que ahora tiene licencia abierta: Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies, de Dave Dillon. Blueprint for Success in College and Career, un OER (Open Educational Resource) es una guía gratuita para que les estudiantes tengan éxito en el aula y en su carrera. Este texto, diseñado para mostrar cómo tener éxito en la universidad y en la preparación de la carrera, se centra en las técnicas de estudio, la gestión del tiempo, la exploración de la carrera, la salud y los conocimientos financieros.
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Writing as Inquiry: A Guide to WR 121 at the University of Oregon
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Clevinger and Rust
Publisher: University of Oregon Libraries
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome to our creative commons OER (open educational resource) for Writing 121 at the University of Oregon. This resource is designed for students to be a zero-cost, high-quality guide to academic writing, with the goal of preparing you for success in college and beyond.
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