This collection is intended to provide instructors with a wide variety of nonfiction examples of good writing that they can use to teach composition.

This book is written by students in an Integrated Basic Education Skills and Training (I-BEST) class at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. Jessica Dunker and Paul Redman, instructors, have contextualized the reading, writing and classroom activities for this course around topics related to diversity and ethnic studies. This Pressbook is a reflection of the work our students have made in writing as well as gaining a better understanding of themselves and each other.

This book showcases stories written by English language learners at Highline College in Des Moines, WA.

This book represents student research from the Applied Research Symposium at Lake Washington Institute of Technology on May 25, 2023. The Applied Research Committee welcomes and supports student work including research and project work in all disciplines across the college. In this issue, students contributed research from fields of mathematics, biology, microbiology, design, computer science, robotics, and public health. This was the third annual symposium on campus. The symposium was organized by the Applied Research Committee.

Contents include student-produced common home care aids, dental products, and caries risk assessment evidence and treatment recommendations. It is meant as a chairside guide to aid in patient education as well as clinical guidance for the dental hygiene clinician.

Music, Heritage, and Community is about the use of music, presentations, and XR tools to support anti-racist teaching and to engage the community. This resource features interviews with professional musical artists who work with The Rhapsody Project, a Seattle-based community organization, and it also includes interviews with a Northwest Virtual Reality Specialist about the use of of virtual reality (VR) to teach local Black history. A variety of tools, including non-digital organic tools, online conferencing tools, and extended reality (XR) can further support teaching practices to decolonizing classrooms and be used to build community.

A collaborative project of stories written by English language learners which were interpreted and illustrated by art students in drawing classes.

This anthology is a collection of student writing from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. The class that these students wrote these essays in is unique, as are the students themselves. This class, English 093-099-101, is a multilevel English composition course that blends pre-college (093 and 099) with college writing (101). The purpose of this multilevel course is to enable students to complete more than one level of English coursework in the same quarter, thus saving them time and money and helping them to achieve their academic goals more quickly and easily. The students in this class are special, and not just because they are enrolled in different levels of English in the same classroom. They come from a wide variety of backgrounds and educational experiences. Many are currently in high school or trying to complete a high school equivalency. Others are international students. The majority are immigrants. A great many are first-generation college students. Some are in workforce retraining and find themselves in a classroom for the first time in decades. What they have in common is that almost all of them are new to the conventions of American academic essay writing.

This book shares student stories written in an accelerated English (ENGL 093/099/101) course within general education and the Integrated Basic Education Skills and Training (I-BEST) program.