The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They …
The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos. This is also available as a free PDF textbook and as print on demand.
College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed …
College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing etext for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic assignments. Following that, we provide instruction in paragraph and essay writing with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more challenging assignments.
English faculty from West Texas A&M University, Amarillo College, Texas A&M University …
English faculty from West Texas A&M University, Amarillo College, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, and Texas A&M University - Galveston teamed up to create this open access resource: College Reading and Writing Foundations. This textbook was primarily created for integrated reading and writing courses but serves as a great refresher or supplement for anyone in college.
NOTE: This is a beta version of College Reading & Writing Foundations being piloted for assessment and revision in Spring 2022. Content will be revised and added throughout 2022, with the final version available December 2022.
College Success takes a fresh look at what it means, in today’s …
College Success takes a fresh look at what it means, in today’s world, with today’s students, to be successful in college.Although many of the topics included—from study skills to personal health, from test-taking to managing time and money—will look familiar to those who have used student success texts that have been around for many editions, College Success takes a new approach. The focus is on realistic, practical tools for the students who need them. This is a book designed, frankly, for students who may have difficulty with traditional college texts. The style is direct and to the point. Information is presented concisely and as simply as possible. This is not a weighty tome that discusses student success—this is a manual for doing it.College student demographics have changed considerably in recent decades. More than a third of all students enroll not directly from high school but after a delay of some years. More students are working and have families. More students come from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds. More students are the first in their family to attend college. More students have grown up with electronic media and now read and think in ways different from the previous generation. With these and so many other cultural changes, more students are not well prepared for a college education with the study skills and life skills they need to become successful students.For each student to get the most out of College Success and their college experience they must understand who they are as it relates to college. To that end, in every chapter students explore themselves, because success starts with recognizing your own strengths and weaknesses. Students make their own goals based on this self-assessment, determining what success in college really means for them as individuals. Interactive activities then help students learn the choices available to them and the possibilities for improving their skills. Skills are presented in step-by-step processes, tips for success in manageable highlighted displays. Most important, students always see the value of what they are reading—and how they can begin to apply it immediately in their own lives.College Success is intended for use in Freshmen Orientation, Study Skills or Student Success courses. A 2009 study revealed that currently nationwide, 34% of college freshmen do not return to their college for their sophomore year. This book is designed to help change that.
These worksheets are designed to help students practice the placement of the …
These worksheets are designed to help students practice the placement of the proper punctuation between independent clauses. These worksheets are designed to supplement previously generated lessons rather than as a stand-alone lesson.
Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will - analyze example sentences …
Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will - analyze example sentences to determine whether a comma is needed before the coordinating conjunction based on the presence of independent clauses.
Author: Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder Supervisor: Terri Pantuso
This Composition Reader is an edited, curated collection of OER material for …
This Composition Reader is an edited, curated collection of OER material for you to use as you see fit in your course. It consists of personal essays, literature, video and audio files, web writing, and long-form journalism.
In this section, you will learn about the importance of ethical considerations …
In this section, you will learn about the importance of ethical considerations and implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. This section highlights that LLMs are not inherently good or bad. Instead, the importance of user engagement in ethical practices is emphasized to ensure responsible use of these tools.
Ethical considerations for educators include attention to student privacy, expectations, and consequences—all of which should clearly be defined in syllabus statements, classroom policies, or institutional statements. Meanwhile, ethical implications exist involving varying ethical standards for how people approach LLMs differently, how human and machine bias influence GenAI, and how style guides differ on citing information garnered from ChatGPT.
After reading this section, you should be able to articulate your own ethical queries and concerns related to LLMs, such as ChatGPT, both as a general user and an educator.
Author: C. Anneke Snyder Contributors: Gwendolyn Inocencio, Mary Landry, Jonahs Kneitly Designers: Irene AI, Sweta Kailani Supervisors: Terri Pantuso, Sarah LeMire
This resource models a possible research unit for instructors interested in guiding …
This resource models a possible research unit for instructors interested in guiding students through contextual literary analysis. As such, this resource outlines strategies for delving into the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts of recommended mentor texts, such as ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway. Additionally, this resource provides a suggested pacing for the unit as well as an outline and rubric for crafting and evaluating the final essay. By the end of this section, instructors will be equipped to design their own contextual analysis research unit that suits their class interests and needs.
Author: Katherine Yoerg Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder Supervisor: Terri Pantuso
This is a collection of cumulative units of study for conventional errors …
This is a collection of cumulative units of study for conventional errors common in student writing. It's flexible, functional, and zeroes in problems typically seen in writing of all types, from the eternal "there/they're/their" struggle to correct colon use. Units are organized from most simple to most challenging.
Seminar provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative research methods in the …
Seminar provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative research methods in the social sciences. Topics covered include: hypothesis formulation and theory construction; data collection techniques (experimental, survey, and observational); ethical issues in research; and how to prepare a research proposal. Goal is to provide students with the methodological skills to evaluate existing studies and to select appropriate methods for use in their own research.
CRW 111 students gain practice in applying effective strategies for understanding college …
CRW 111 students gain practice in applying effective strategies for understanding college material by relating generalization to supporting ideas and identifying the patterns into which ideas are structured. Students use computers to develop analytical capabilities in the course's computer lab component. CRW 111 carries 3 credits and meets 3 hours per week.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will - analyze a chosen …
Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will - analyze a chosen concept through various strategies, such as its connotations, denotations, and more. - create a well-organized essay that explains and defends a proposed definition for their chosen concept through reasoning strategies, evidence, and credible sources.
Author: Kimberly Stelly Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder Supervisor: Terri Pantuso
This worksheet is designed to help students develop the ability to identify …
This worksheet is designed to help students develop the ability to identify unclear pronoun usage in their own writing. To achieve this ability, students are shown examples of demonstrative determiners and unclear antecedents as well as strategies to help them avoid these mistakes in their own work. This worksheet is designed to supplement previously generated lessons rather than as a stand-alone lesson.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will - create a well-organized …
Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will - create a well-organized essay that describes in vivid detail a significant person, place, event, moment, or object that has impacted their life or perspective. - evaluate the effectiveness of their drafting by seeking feedback from peers and revising to improve clarity, organization, and impact.
Author: Kimberly Stelly Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder Supervisor: Terri Pantuso
A multimedia 1st-year German language program based on videos of native speakers …
A multimedia 1st-year German language program based on videos of native speakers and the UT Summer Program in Wrzburg, Germany. The online textbook includes recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, an online grammar component, online comparative polls and internet writing activities.
This assignment asks students to take bibliographic data and generate a properly …
This assignment asks students to take bibliographic data and generate a properly formatted APA citation. After completing questions #1-8, they are then asked to create 3 properly formatted in-text citations in APA style. Finally, they are asked to take the first 8 citations and turn them into a properly formatted reference sheet, attached to the end of the worksheet. Depending on skill level, the instructor may choose to allow them to use an aid (like Purdue Owl) to construct the citations or do them from memory. This assignment is best used to assess students’ understanding of APA and provide them with low-stakes practice of these formatting skills.
This assignment asks students to take bibliographic data and generate a properly …
This assignment asks students to take bibliographic data and generate a properly formatted MLA citation. After completing questions #1-8, they are then asked to create 3 properly formatted in-text citations in MLA style. Finally, they are asked to take the first 8 citations and turn them into a properly formatted reference sheet, attached to the end of the worksheet. Depending on skill level, the instructor may choose to allow them to use an aid (like Purdue Owl) to construct the citations or do them from memory. This assignment is best used to assess students’ understanding of MLA and provide them with low-stakes practice of these formatting skills.
EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student …
EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in all facets of their lives. Straightforward and readable instruction sections introduce key vocabulary, concepts, and strategies. Three culminating assignments (Descriptive Personal Narrative; Text-Wrestling Analysis; Persuasive Research Essay) give students a chance to show their learning while also practicing rhetorical awareness techniques for future writing situations.
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