A Common Approach to Work-place Writing

Short Description:
This open textbook is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that will help with the real, everyday tasks of writing and speaking in their chosen profession.

Long Description:
This open textbook is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that will help with the real, everyday tasks of writing and speaking in their chosen profession. Organized in five major units— Communication Foundations, Professional Writing Processes, Routine Workplace Communication, Employment and Interpersonal Communication, and Presentations and Group Communication —this opened educational resource is conveniently presented in a variety of AODA-compliant formats and written in the reader-friendly style. This textbook helps ensure that students graduate with the communication skills necessary to succeed in the modern workplace.

Word Count: 221219

ISBN: 978-1-998755-44-8

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A Functional Approach

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Professional Writing Today: A Functional Approach provides clear, accessible guidance for writing in today's professional workplaces. This book is ideal for students at the beginning of their careers and entry-level employees looking to move to the next level.

Word Count: 60405

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Short Description:
Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their comfort, confidence, and skills in professional writing. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments.

Long Description:
Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their comfort, confidence, and skills in professional writing. It is designed for self-study, with exercises and activities to support learning of the concepts and processes that support clear, effective, and meaningful communication. Learners are guided systematically through the writing process, including: developing their own voice; grounding their work in principles of integrity and honesty; providing scholarly support for their ideas; developing a writing plan through a process of critical deconstruction; drafing a paper through critical reconstruction; and revising, editing, and completing a final review of their work.

The ebook follows the professional standards of the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual; however, learners are directed to that manual for specific APA editorial guidelines. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments.

Word Count: 30683

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A Guide for Graduate Students

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Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their competency in professional writing and APA format. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments. NEW 2020 VERSION

Long Description:
Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their competency in professional writing. It is designed for self-study, with exercises and activities to support mastery of the concepts and processes presented. Readers are guided through the process of developing their own voice, actively engaging with and thinking critically about the ideas of others, crafting a thesis and argument, reflecting and integrating the voices of others with scholarly integrity, and editing their paper to comply with professional standards of the 6th edition of the American Psychological Association Publication Manual. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments. NEW 2020 VERSION

Word Count: 109577

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NSCC Edition

Short Description:
This textbook for professional and technical communication is a compilation of several Open Resource materials. The purpose in its design is to provide a wide variety of materials on subjects in professional and technical communication, and to offer several different perspectives and delivery modes of those materials.

Word Count: 176364

ISBN: 978-1-990641-99-2

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An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative

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This is a Portuguese conversation textbook for all levels

Word Count: 2437

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Welcome to the Provincial English textbook, which was designed to fulfill the requirements for the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Provincial English course. This text provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking skills, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.

Word Count: 119236

ISBN: 978-1-77420-144-2

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Book review publications (Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly) and social cataloguing websites (GoodReads, LibraryThing) categorize the books they review into genres. Fiction and Nonfiction are the broadest categories. The more specialized categories include Mystery, Children's Books, and Poetry. This public domain anthology includes a range of books in these various genres for novice critics to practice the reviewer's craft.

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Well-regarded book review publications (Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly) and popular social cataloguing websites (GoodReads, LibraryThing) categorize the books they review into genres. Fiction and Nonfiction are the broadest categories. Specialized categories include Mysteries, Children’s Books, and Poetry. Of course, even these sub-genres of Fiction and Nonfiction go by different labels. For example, “Mystery” books at Kirkus Reviews are labeled Mystery and Detective. Publishers Weekly and GoodReads uses the label Mystery and Thriller. This public domain anthology, while open to expansion to include additional genres, such as science fiction or biography and memoir, provides a rich and varied collection of works for novice book critics to develop their skills as reviewers.

Word Count: 641425

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Word Count: 24984

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A reference for Oklahoma State University authors using Pressbooks to adapt or create open content

Short Description:
This Pressbooks Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks User Guide published by Pressbooks.com. Instead, in parts and chapters laid out to mimic the steps an author might take to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks, it redirects readers to pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks User Guide, supplements it with additional information, and includes instructions specific to Oklahoma State University faculty, instructors, and students.

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This Pressbooks Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks User Guide published by Pressbooks.com. Instead, in parts and chapters laid out to mimic the steps an author might take to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks, it redirects readers to pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks User Guide, supplements it with additional information, and includes instructions specific to Oklahoma State University faculty and staff.

Each section of this guide begins with a list of topics covered in its chapters. Key terms, specific to Pressbooks and its features, are set in bold and defined in the text body as well as summarized in the Glossary.

Word Count: 18385

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Reason and Writing for Success

Short Description:
Putting the Pieces Together: Reason and Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition; This text is designed as a companion resource to WRIT: Reason and Writing, which is Fanshawe College's introductory writing curriculum.

Long Description:
Putting the Pieces Together: Reason and Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.

Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements, this book addresses each concept with clear, concise and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate, and reinforce, learning.

Each unit allows students to demonstrate mastery of the principles of quality writing. With its incremental approach, it can address a range of writing levels and abilities, helping each student in your course prepare for their next writing or university course. Constant reinforcement is provided through examples and exercises, and the text involves students in the learning process through reading, problem-solving, practicing, listening, and experiencing the writing process.

Each chapter also has integrated examples that unify the discussion and form a common, easy-to-understand basis for discussion and exploration. This will put students at ease, and allow for greater absorption of the material.

Word Count: 136274

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Tome 2

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Portraits d'hommes et de femmes issus d'un pays de culture arabe (Maroc, Liban, Lybie) vivant dans la ville de Québec. Portraits réalisés par des étudiants et des étudiantes de l'Université Laval.

Word Count: 74290

ISBN: 978-2-924661-27-7

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Tome 1

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Portraits d'hommes et de femmes issues d'un pays de culture arabe (Algérie, Mauritanie, Syrie, Tunisie) vivant dans la ville de Québec, réalisés par des étudiants et étudiantes de l'Université Laval.

Word Count: 77512

ISBN: 978-2-924661-24-6

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This style guide is for authors publishing with RMIT Open Press using the Pressbooks platform. It sets out requirements for writing style, diversity, accessibility, acknowledging sources, and using figures, tables and embedded media. While the guide has been written for RMIT authors, it may provide a useful starting point for others wanting to publish open resources. The RMIT Open Press Style Guide is a companion to the RMIT Open Publishing Toolkit for Authors.

Long Description:
This style guide is for authors publishing with RMIT Open Press using the Pressbooks platform. It sets out requirements for writing style, diversity, accessibility, acknowledging sources, and using figures, tables and embedded media. While the guide has been written for RMIT authors, it may provide a useful starting point for others wanting to publish open resources. The RMIT Open Press Style Guide is a companion to the RMIT Open Publishing Toolkit for Authors.

Word Count: 6982

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This course explores the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable identities. Discussions will focus on some of the following questions: What does it mean to act black, white, privileged, or underprivileged? What do these artists suggest are the implications of performing (indeed playing at or with) racial identity, ethnicity, gender, and class status? How and why are race and class status often conflated in these performances?

Adapted for English Language Learners

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An adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's critically acclaimed play A Raisin in the Sun. This text has been adapted to a mid-length novel suitable for low-intermediate and intermediate level English Language Learners.

Long Description:
This is an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun intended for classroom use with low-intermediate English Language Learners. The original play has been adapted into a novel suitable for reading over the course of a quarter or semester. This OER text includes discussion questions, vocabulary activities, and writing prompts.

The Younger family lives in a small apartment. When they receive an insurance payment after the death of their father, the Younger children and their mother face a difficult decision. What will they do with the money?

Set in 1950s Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun explores an African American family’s challenges and dreams. It is a story of family love, prejudice, and resilience.

Content warnings: this story contains discussions of anti-Black violence, racism, pregnancy and discussion of terminating pregnancy, and alcohol consumption.

Word Count: 34909

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Reading Fiction is designed to sharpen your skills as a critical reader. As we explore both short stories and novels focusing on the theme of "the city in literature," we will learn about the various elements that shape the way we read texts - structure, narrative voice, character development, novelistic experimentation, historical and political contexts and reader response.