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Building Academic Literacy
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While many study skills, composition and reading skills texts separate these activities into discrete skills to be learned separately, this books recognizes that these skills are interconnected. A student who struggles with the reading will have a hard time writing about it or discussing it. A student who has inadequate strategies for listening to lectures will struggle to see the connections between the lecture and the reading. Therefore, this book moves away from the “skills and drills” texts that are so common in reading and writing textbooks. Instead, this book features process and provides opportunities for students (and instructors) to think about the best ways to approach academic tasks. For example, a “skills and drills” oriented book might teach students how to take Cornell Notes and use graphic organizers, but it does not provide any information for students that would allow them to decide when it would be best to choose one note taking method over the other. This book’s main focus is helping students develop that sort of judgement.

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Education
Higher Education
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Textbook
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Minnesota State Opendora
Author:
Katie Klopfleisch
Loti-Beth Larsen
Date Added:
08/13/2020
College Writing Basics
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This is a resource to give to students about expectations for college writing, including links and resources for writing papers, emails, and more in an academic and professional manner.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Minnesota State Opendora
Author:
Amy Jo Swing
Date Added:
08/13/2020
Introduction to Electronics
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The advent of electronics has had a profound impact on our lives and impacted nearly every product that we use either directly or indirectly. Without electronics, present day computers, cell phones, stereos, televisions, and the internet would not be possible. And of course, without computers and modern communications tools, society could not have made the huge strides in fields such as medicine, aerospace technologies, meteorology, transportation, agriculture, education, and many others. It is for these reasons that the invention of the transistor is considered as one of the most important technological advancements in history.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Electronic Technology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Minnesota State Opendora
Author:
Tim Grebner
Date Added:
08/13/2020
Introduction to Global Studies
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This textbook introduces students to the basic concepts, trends, perspectives and interconnections of global society. Through readings, discussions, videos, webcasts and other activities, students examine the interdependence of people around the world and global issues that affect these relationships. It will provide an overview of the history and theoretical approaches that have created a global society through topics such as global politics, human rights, the natural environment, population, disease, gender, information technology, war and peace. This is a required course for the Global Studies Emphasis.

Subject:
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Minnesota State Opendora
Author:
Lori-Beth Larsen
Date Added:
08/13/2020
Out from the Shadows of Minneapolis: Power, Pride, and Perseverance at a Northern Community College
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Minneapolis College, the most selected higher education destination of students from all Minneapolis Public High Schools, is located downtown, nestled between the hustle of Hennepin Avenue and the green spaces of Loring Park. As a part of the Minnesota State system of colleges and universities, Minneapolis College most serves those students who are least likely to go to college. With three-quarters of the student body composed of those underrepresented in higher education, the hallways are filled with recent immigrants, those seeking to learn English, members of communities with the highest unemployment and incarceration rates in the state, veterans, those of low socioeconomic status, seekers of diversity, and those who wish to serve them. Collected here are their stories, stories of overcoming, coming up, perseverance, pride, and power in the face of depressed opportunity and systemic oppression.

Subject:
Education
Higher Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Minnesota State Opendora
Author:
Alison Bergblom
Jay Williams
Date Added:
03/21/2019
Why Writing Works: Disciplinary Approaches to Composing Texts
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Why Writing Works: Disciplinary Approaches to Composing Texts is an open-access, online textbook resource for college writing. It is written for an audience of second-year college students with a focus on writing in the disciplines.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Minnesota State Opendora
Author:
Amanda Bemer
Lisa Lucas
Lori Baker
Neil Smith
Date Added:
08/13/2020
You, Writing! A Guide to College Composition
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This text is meant to be used in any first year College Composition class or as a general guide to college writing. The book focuses on writing as a process, not a product. The goal is to help students discover their own writing process, trying out different methods and strategies to find what works best for them.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Minnesota State Opendora
Author:
Alexandra Glynn
Amy Jo Swing
Kelli Hallsten-Erickson
Date Added:
08/13/2020