College Writing
(View Complete Item Description)Textbook for introductory composition, focusing on writing processes, essay writing, and research writing.
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Oregon Writes Open Writing Text
(View Complete Item Description)A Project of Oregon Writes Short Description: This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Guided by Oregon's statewide college writing outcomes, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand. Faculty guide available: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1035227Order a print copy: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jenn-kepka/oregon-writes-open-writing-text/paperback/product-23840147.html Long Description: This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon. Created through a grant from Open Oregon in 2015-16, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand. Faculty guide available: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1035227 Order a print copy: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jenn-kepka/oregon-writes-open-writing-text/paperback/product-23840147.html Word Count: 66415 ISBN: 978-1-63635-058-5 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
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Improving Writing Performance: A Strategy for Writing Persuasive Essays
(View Complete Item Description)This Module highlights the differences between students who write well and those who struggle. Elements of the writing process are discussed, as are the prerequisite skills students need to write good papers. The module outlines and describes the process for teaching students the POW+TREE strategy, a writing strategy to help students produce better persuasive essays (est. completion time: 2 hours).
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LACC Writing Handbook
(View Complete Item Description)1: Chapter 1 Reading Skills 1.1: Use Pre-reading Strategies 1.2: Annotate and Take Notes 1.3: The Reading-Writing Connection 1.4: Critical Reading and Rhetorical Context 1.5: Reading Strategies - Previewing 1.5.1: 3.4 Annotation Basics 1.6: Questioning Strategies 1.7: Inferences 1.8: Vocabulary 1.9: Reading Strategies - Taking Notes 1.10: Main Ideas and Supporting Details 1.11: Paraphrazing and Summarizing 1.12: How to Read Like a Writer 1.13: Key Takeaways 2: Chapter 2 Writing Process 2.1: Apply Prewriting Models 2.1.1: Outlining 2.1.2: Outlining 2.1.3: Drafting 2.2: The Writing Process - How Do I Begin? (Exercises) 2.3: The Reading-Writing Process 2.4: Steps in the Reading-Writing Process 2.5: The College Essay Assignment- Analysis, Rubrics, and Critical Thinking 2.6: Argument 2.7: Purpose, Tone, Audience, Content in an Assignment 2.8: Prewriting Strategies 2.9: Outlining 2.10: Key Takeaways 2.11: Revising and Editing 2.12: Chapter 4 Revising 2.12.1: Revising and Editing 3: Chapter 3 Essay Essentials 3.1: Writing a Thesis 3.2: Working Thesis 3.3: Elements of a thesis 3.4: Where is the thesis? 3.5: Tips for writing a thesis statement 3.6: Resources 4: Chapter 4 Writing Basics 4.1: Moving Beyond the Five-paragraph Theme 4.1.1: The Three-story Thesis- From the Ground Up 4.2: The Three-story Thesis- From the Ground Up 4.3: Three-story Theses and the Organically Structured Argument 4.4: Exercises 4.5: Verb tense 4.6: Passive and active voice 4.7: Run-ons, fragments, comma splices 5: Sentence Clarity 5.1: Chapter 5 Sentence Clarity 5.1.1: Sentence Variety 5.1.2: Coordination and Subordination 5.1.3: Parallelism 5.1.4: Writing Introductions 5.1.5: Writing Conclusions 5.1.6: Writing Summaries 5.1.7: Paraphrasing 5.1.8: Quoting
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College Writing Handbook
(View Complete Item Description)Abstract This PDF focuses on college-level writing, critical reading, and research challenges. This College Writing Handbook is a modified version of the Guide to Writing by Vallerie Mott and a writer listed as "Alexis." The original version of this book was released under a CC-BY license and is copyright by Lumen Learning. The changes to this book listed are released under a CC-BY-SA license and are copyright by Joshua Dickinson of Jefferson Community College. Description This all-in-one handbook has several chapters on the writing process. Also featured is coverage of critical reading, logical fallacies, avoiding plagiarism, citing in APA or MLA style, writing across the disciplines, as well as the typical grammar, punctuation, usage, ESL coverage. URI http://hdl.handle.net/1951/71295 Subjects College Writing, Research, Usage, Grammar, Handbook, APA Style, MLA Style, Writing Process
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Narrative Writing WriteAlong Videos
(View Complete Item Description)This series of videos walks students through the writing and revising process for narrative essays. Topics include conclusions, dialogue, transitions, organization, etc. Each video is under 10 minutes long. Users may access two videos before being asked to establish a free account.
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Writing to Learn: A Course Design and Educational Resources
(View Complete Item Description)The course design, in-class activities, assignments, and citations here offer ways educators can use the writing process to improve student learning, focusing on undgraduate and early graduate work. These materials can be remixed and repurposed, in whole or in part, as you wish under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. If you repurpose these materials for a particular discipline or context, an email about your work would be greatly appreciated!
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World Regional Geography
(View Complete Item Description)People, Places and Globalization Word Count: 275982 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
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World Regional Geography
(View Complete Item Description)Rather than present students with a broad, novice-level introduction to geography, emphasizing places and vocabulary terms, this text approaches geography as experts understand the discipline, focusing on connections and an in-depth understanding of core themes. This thematic approach, informed by pedagogical research, provides students with an introduction to thinking geographically. Instead of repeating the same several themes each chapter, this text emphasizes depth over breadth by arranging each chapter around a central theme and then exploring that theme in detail as it applies to the particular region. In addition, while chapters are designed to stand alone and be rearranged or eliminated at the instructor's discretion, the theme of globalization and inequality unites all of the regions discussed. This core focus enables students to draw connections between regions and to better understand the interconnectedness of our world. Furthermore, the focus on both globalization and inequality helps demonstrate the real-world application of the concepts discussed. Colonialism, for instance, rather than a historical relict, becomes a force that has shaped geography and informs social justice. This thematic approach is also intended to facilitate active learning and would be suitable for a flipped or team-based learning-style course since it more easily integrates case studies and higher-order thinking than the traditional model.
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Introduction to World Regional Geography
(View Complete Item Description)Word Count: 197795 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
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World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
(View Complete Item Description)The discipline of geography bridges the social sciences with the physical sciences and can provide a framework for understanding our world. By studying geography, we can begin to understand the relationships and common factors that tie our human community together. The world is undergoing globalization on a massive scale as a result of the rapid transfer of information and technology and the growth of modes of transportation and communication. The more we understand our world, the better prepared we will be to address the issues that confront our future. There are many approaches to studying world geography. This textbook takes a regional approach and focuses on themes that illustrate the globalization process, which in turn assists us in better understanding our global community and its current affairs.
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World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
(View Complete Item Description)World Regional Geography takes a regional approach to globalization and world geography. The textbook was designed to provide accurate and current information regarding world regional geography in an easy-to-read format. Fundamental geographic concepts and regions are presented in concise chapters that provide a foundational framework for understanding development patterns around the world. Essential topics include location, the environment, and global economic dynamics. Important theories, concepts, and principles are utilized throughout the textbook for each region.
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World Geography
(View Complete Item Description)The 6th grade MI Open Book Geography Text explores the five themes of geography, first by providing an introduction to the study of geography itself, then focusing in on a theme each chapter while studying a region of the world. The final chapters explore the themes in action in other regions.
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Introduction to Human Geography
(View Complete Item Description)Human geography emphasizes the importance of geography as a field of inquiry and introduces students to the concept of spatial organization. Knowing the location of places, people, and events is a gateway to understanding complex environmental relationships and interconnections among places and across landscapes. Geographic concepts emphasize location, space, place, scale of analysis, pattern, regionalization, and globalization. These concepts are essential to understanding spatial interaction and spatial behavior, the dynamics of human population growth and migration, patterns of culture, political control of territory, areas of agricultural production, the changing location of industry and economic development strategies, and evolving human settlement patterns, particularly urbanization. Geographers use geospatial technology (e.g., satellite imagery, aerial photography, geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and drone technology), spatial data, mathematical formulas, and design models to understand the world from a spatial perspective better. Human geography enables us to consider the regional organization of various phenomena and encourages geographic analysis to understand processes in a changing world. For example, geographic perspectives on the impact of human activities on the environment, from local to global scales, include effects on land, water, atmosphere, population, biodiversity, and climate. These human ecological examples are inherent throughout the discipline, especially in topics dealing with population growth, agricultural and industrial practices, and rapid urbanization. Geographers apply geographic methods and geospatial technologies to a variety of situations.
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Human Geography: An open textbook for Advanced Placement
(View Complete Item Description)Human Geography: An open textbook for Advanced Placement is aligned to the 2015 College Board course articulation for AP Human Geography. The purpose of AP Human Geography is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.
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Geography & Day of the Dead
(View Complete Item Description)This resource was created by Cierra Morten, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.
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Bioregion Assignment
(View Complete Item Description)A weekly bioregion homework assignment exploring for the student local landscape changes. What were the past natural conditions and native uses to todays uses, as well as projected changes in the coming decades. (Note: this resource was added to OER Commons as part of a batch upload of over 2,200 records. If you notice an issue with the quality of the metadata, please let us know by using the 'report' button and we will flag it for consideration.)
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Producing Bioregional Knowledge and Understanding: Student Projects Based on Field Learning
(View Complete Item Description)Students produce a set of eight personal travel 'insights' from field trips within their bioregion. Each insight consists of an image produced by the student and accompanying text; students are producers of meaning rather than consumers. (Note: this resource was added to OER Commons as part of a batch upload of over 2,200 records. If you notice an issue with the quality of the metadata, please let us know by using the 'report' button and we will flag it for consideration.)
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Culture and Climate Change
(View Complete Item Description)This is a short, in-class activity. Students will complete a brief individual carbon-footprint and will then be given a card with information about the carbon footprint of an individual in another part of the world. Students will then be asked to reflect on the 'climate consequences' faced by that person compared to the 'climate consequences' they themselves face. Discussion will lead into consideration of current and future effects of climate change on cultures in our own bioregion - as well as a reflection on the way our own cultural practices may be contributing to the climate catastrophe worldwide.
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Investigating Local Food: Meet Your Washington Farmers
(View Complete Item Description)This assignment sequence seeks to stimulate students' thinking and writing about food production in the western Washington bioregion through a series of activities combining readings, class discussion, fieldwork, and writing assignments. Collaborative work in and outside of class culminates in students' interviewing local farmers and vendors at farmers markets and writing a surprising informative essay. (Note: this resource was added to OER Commons as part of a batch upload of over 2,200 records. If you notice an issue with the quality of the metadata, please let us know by using the 'report' button and we will flag it for consideration.)
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