tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?page=8&term=Writing+as+Material+PracticeOpen Textbook Library - Search results for "Writing as Material Practice"2024-03-03T22:03:33Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png15942024-03-03T22:09:46Z2024-03-03T22:09:46Z(Re)Writing Communities and Identities - Sixth Edition<img alt="Read more about (Re)Writing Communities and Identities - Sixth Edition" title="(Re)Writing Communities and Identities - Sixth Edition cover image" class="cover " width="688" height="892" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTExODcsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--a8071f1c1303df93da65905da1a84be4654e7e9d/re.jpg" />(Re)Writing Communities and Identities enables college-level students to develop their ability to compose various informative and expressive genres, including analyses, reflections, summaries, syntheses, and informative reports. While students raise their consciousness about their writing process and audience-based informative strategies, they also familiarize themselves with important social and cultural issues related to the theme of "identities and communities."16012024-03-03T23:15:46Z2024-03-03T23:15:46ZBusiness Writing For Everyone<img alt="Read more about Business Writing For Everyone" title="Business Writing For Everyone cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTEyMDgsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--d6c2101d53f7f5272328503a4c085935be25aee5/Open-Education_Pressbooks_Cover-Business-Writing-for-Everyone-350x453.jpg" />Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.16202024-03-17T00:47:32Z2024-03-18T16:57:08ZHeritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing<img alt="Read more about Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing" title="Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTEzMjQsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--7f04a0470ce38eaf34b665ecf88fcb7d25902b85/081622_RotelProject_HeritageofChange-Ver2-Tracy-3-350x453.jpg" />In first-year writing courses, it can often feel that we practice writing and research in a vacuum. Writing is about communication, and, if we do not feel that we have an audience, then it can seem like our writing has no purpose (even though practice of any kind will help us develop these skills). Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing is a method for students to think about the social changes that were prevalent during the COVID years and remain important in their wake. Heritages of Change is a lens for thinking and writing about these ideas. Through curation and exhibition as an act of activism, students focus on a specific audience with whom they can communicate authentically about this dynamic world.4492018-09-07T17:22:02Z2024-01-22T14:52:16ZIntellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials<img alt="Read more about Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials" title="Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials cover image" class="cover " width="420" height="600" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTkwNCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--56e2e8c8ef262f6019418a3922d76ea3d4ab0d46/ipcasebook2018_front-cover.jpg" />This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. It focuses on the three graphmain forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but many of the ideas discussed here apply far beyond those legal areas and far beyond the law of the United States. The book is intended to be a textbook for the basic Intellectual Property class, but because it is an open coursebook, which can be freely edited and customized, it is also suitable for an undergraduate class, or for a business, library studies, communications or other graduate school class. Each chapter contains cases and secondary readings and a set of problems or role-playing exercises involving the material. The problems range from a video of the Napster oral argument to counseling clients about search engines and trademarks, applying the First Amendment to digital rights management and copyright or commenting on the Supreme Court's rulings on gene patents.5952018-09-07T17:22:12Z2024-01-22T14:52:13ZLaw School Materials for Success<img alt="Read more about Law School Materials for Success" title="Law School Materials for Success cover image" class="cover " width="188" height="250" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTE4LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--cdeea57e2562c1414386d17320b19594ad88899a/0000LawMatSuc.png" />The first year of law school is, for many people, one of the most significant transitions of their adult life. Law school demands a lot as it helps you make the transition from your prior identity as student (or as some other occupational role) to your new identity as an attorney. To meet the demands of law school, it is often helpful to have the big picture before you begin – a sense of what it is you are trying to do as you prepare for classes, participate in those classes, review and prepare for exams, take exams, and then begin the cycle once again. Law School Materials for Success is designed to give you the essentials of that process. It is purposefully brief – most law students do not have the time for an extensive examination of the study of law school. Rather, they need a source for some basic, critical advice and some pointers on where to go for more if necessary. That is what this book and the accompanying podcasts are designed to provide.6472018-12-09T17:12:56Z2024-01-22T14:52:02ZIntroduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials<img alt="Read more about Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials" title="Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials cover image" class="cover " width="300" height="370" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTg1LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--37ba2f31452a6a42923f1bc01369f8eea6e6f0eb/9789463660754.jpg" />This book provides an introduction to the discipline of aerospace structures and materials. It is the first book to date that includes all relevant aspects of this discipline within a single monologue. These aspects range from materials, manufacturing and processing techniques, to structures, design principles and structural performance, including aspects like durability and safety. With the purpose of introducing students into the basics of the entire discipline, the book presents the subjects broadly and loosely connected, adopting either a formal description or an informal walk around type of presentation. A key lessons conveyed within this book is the interplay between the exact science and engineering topics, like solid material physics and structural analysis, and the soft topics that are not easily captured by equations and formulas. Safety, manufacturability, availability and costing are some of these topics that are presented in this book to explain decisions and design solutions within this discipline.10722021-09-27T20:06:30Z2024-01-22T14:52:27ZImpact of Materials on Society<img alt="Read more about Impact of Materials on Society" title="Impact of Materials on Society cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjkwMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7cede268423b289a341ecbad90f657d24729529d/IMOS_PB6x9Cover-683x1024.jpg" />This textbook supports the Impact of Materials on Society course and teaching materials, developed with the Materials Research Society. The textbook offers an exploration into materials (including ceramics, clay, concrete, glass, metals, and polymers) and the relationship with technologies and social structures. The textbook was developed by an interdisciplinary team from Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences, including anthropologists, sociologists, historians, media studies experts, Classicists, and more.14942023-09-28T21:55:48Z2024-03-25T13:37:27ZEssential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave<img alt="Read more about Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave" title="Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave cover image" class="cover " width="1280" height="1690" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTU4MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--833ea9432d97f11034674f9dd0b9051c62598fdd/EmbeddedImage.jpg" />Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave combines two core engineering science courses - “Statics” and “Strength of Materials” - in mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering. It weaves together various essential topics from Statics and Strength of Materials to allow discussing structural design from the very beginning. The traditional content of these courses are reordered to make it convenient to cover rigid body equilibrium and extend it to deformable body mechanics.The e-book covers the most useful topics from both courses with computational support through MATLAB/Octave. The traditional approach for engineering content is emphasized and is rigorously supported through graphics and analysis. Prior knowledge of MATLAB is not necessary. Instructions for its use in context is provided and explained. It takes advantage of the numerical, symbolic, and graphical capability of MATLAB for effective problem solving. This computational ability provides a natural procedure for What if? exploration that is important for design. The book also emphasizes graphics to understand, learn, and explore design. The idea for this book, the organization, and the flow of content is original and new. The integration of computation, and the marriage of analytical and computational skills is a new valuable experience provided by this e-book. Most importantly the book is very interactive with respect to the code as it appears along with the analysis.15962024-03-03T22:23:54Z2024-03-03T22:23:54ZInterior Materiality<img alt="Read more about Interior Materiality" title="Interior Materiality cover image" class="cover " width="689" height="704" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTExOTMsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--b4de511074d960d3dc6dbe9210bd883294783270/interior.jpg" />The knowledge of materials and finishes is the bridge that links conceptual design to real-world application. It is among the core content of virtually all interior architecture/design curricula, moreover, access to up-to-date information on emerging technologies and trends is a key exigency for the contemporary designer. Accordingly, this book is authored to form a comprehensive resource for the “hows” and “whys” surrounding the functional and aesthetic contributions of a wide selection of materials and finishes used in multiple spatial design contexts. The knowledge base presented here is not only useful in shaping spatial experience, ensuring occupant well-being, and employing sustainable thinking but also beneficial in managing budget and schedule while enabling the delivery of top-quality work. The book investigates fundamental material properties, performance criteria, as well as sector-specific standards, regulations, and guidelines, with a special focus on concerns surrounding occupant health and safety as well as environmental impact and sustainability concerns. Furthermore, fabrication, installation, and maintenance issues were explored in detail. Various information collection and organization conventions are also discussed with regard to detailing, specification, estimation, and documentation of materials and finishes.772018-09-07T17:21:42Z2024-03-25T13:04:26ZStand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking<img alt="Read more about Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking" title="Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTk3MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--3abd8417cd3164d161ece0a88b376a5dad872aad/Stand-Up-Speak-Out-683x1024.jpg" />Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking features two key themes. First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication. It is this practical approach and integrated ethical coverage that setsStand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speakingapart from the other texts in this market.
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