APA Style Guide

The standard citation style guide book for the fields of business, education, health science, public service, and social science is the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2010. The American Psychological Association (APA) publishes the manual. We commonly refer to it as "the APA Manual". The business, education, health science, public service, and social science departments at IRSC recommend APA format for papers written in these fields. Two types of citations are included in most research papers: citations within the text of the document and a list of reference citations at the end of the paper. In-Text Citations: The APA Manual uses the author-date citation system for in-text citations. Reference Citations: The sources you use in your work are included as a separate list at the end of the paper. The APA Manual suggests using the title, References, for the list.

Material Type: Reading

College Success

The focus of this textbook is preparing students for a college education with the study and life skills they need to become successful students.

Material Type: Full Course, Textbook

Study, Strategize and Succeed – Open Textbook

College is a formative time for students. Understanding effective strategies for student success can go a long way in helping with retention of students.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Kwantlen Polytechnic University Learning Centres

OER Educational Technology Textbooks

Educational Technology textbooks that have a wide array of teaching-and-learning–related software and hardware that's increasingly being used in college and university classrooms to help facilitate collaboration in an active learning environments for students.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: A project created by ISKME

Advanced Design and Optimization of Composite Structures I

This course introduces the basic components of an airframe structure and discusses their use and limitations. The realities of composite design such as the effect of material scatter, environmental knockdowns, and damage knockdowns are discussed and guidelines accounting for these effects and leading to robust designs are presented. The resulting design constraints and predictive tools are applied to real-life design problems in composite structures. A brief revision of lamination theory and failure criteria leads into the development of analytical solutions for typical failure modes for monolithic skins (layup strength, buckling under combined loads and for a variety of boundary conditions) and stiffeners (strength, column buckling under a variety of loads and boundary conditions, local buckling or crippling for one-edge and no-edge-free conditions). These are then combined into stiffened composite structures where additional failure modes such as skin-stiffener separation are considered. Analogous treatment of sandwich skins examines buckling, wrinkling, crimping, intra-cellular buckling failure modes. Once the basic analysis and design techniques have been presented, typical designs (e.g. flange layup, stiffness, taper requirements) are presented and a series of design guidelines (stiffness mismatch minimization, symmetric and balanced layups, 10% rule, etc.) addressing layup and geometry are discussed. On the metal side, the corresponding design practices and analysis methods are presented for the more important failure modes (buckling, crippling) and comparisons to composite designs are made. A design problem is given in the end as an application of the material in this Part of the course.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Dr. Christos Kassapoglou, Dr.ir. Mostafa Abdalla

Advanced Structural Analysis

This course is designed to introduce students who wish to specialize in stress analysis of thin-walled structures to more advanced topics such as the analysis of statically indeterminate structures, warping, constraint stresses, shear diffusion, and elements of plate bending.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Dr. Mostafa Abdalla

Applied Fluid Mechanics Lab Manual

This lab manual provides students with the theory, practical applications, objectives, and laboratory procedure of ten experiments. The manual also includes educational videos showing how student should run each experiment and a workbook for organizing data collected in the lab and preparing result tables and charts.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Habib Ahmari

Buckling of Structures

The course is concerned with the concept of structural stability. This concept is applied to discrete and continuous basic structural elements (beams, frames, plates and shells). The fundamental concepts are introduced on the basis of the governing differential equations. The course includes the following topics: *Equations of motion, nonlinear equilibrium equations, stationary potential energy criterion. *Stability analysis for the basic structural elements. *Design methods for stability of basic structural elements.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Dr.ir. R. de Breuker

Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials

How do you design an aircraft or spacecraft? And in doing so, how do you keep the risk of failure minimal while bearing in mind that they will eventually fail? In this course you will be taken on a journey through the structural and material design of aircraft. You will see and understand how aircraft and spacecraft are manufactured, and learn how safety is enshrined at every stage. Experts from the Aerospace Structures and Materials Department of Delft University of Technology will help you explore and analyze the mechanical properties of materials; learning about manufacturing techniques, fatigue, loads and stresses, design considerations and more – all the scientific and engineering principles that structural and materials engineers face on a daily basis. By the end of the course, you will have learned to think like they do!

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Dr. Calvin Rans, Dr.ir. Gillian Saunders-Smit, dr.ir. R.C. Alderliesten, dr. Julie Tuewen, Ir. Jos Sinke

Non-Linear Structural Modeling

Non-Linear Structural Modeling covers the basics of non-linearities in the Finite Element Method (FEM), considering static and stability (buckling) analyses, and practical application thereof applied to both aerospace and non-aerospace examples. Special emphasis is put on the implementation of these non-linearities in a FEM model and any issues that might arise from incorporating these

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Ir.J.M.A.M. Hol

Spacecraft Technology

Exploration of space is never out of the news for long and the desire to construct lower-cost, reliable and more capable spacecraft has never been greater. At TU Delft years of technology development and research experience in space engineering allow us to offer this course, which examines spacecraft technologies for satellites and launch vehicles. This course provides: knowledge of the technical principles of rockets and satellite bus subsystems the ability to select state-of-the-art, available components analysis of the physical and technical limitations of subsystem components identification of the key performance parameters of different spacecraft subsystems comparison of the values obtained by ideal theory and real-life ones opportunity to make preliminary designs for a spacecraft based on its key requirements

Material Type: Lecture

Authors: Angelo Cervone, Jasper Bouwmeester

Understanding Nuclear Energy

You will learn the physics behind nuclear science, how to gain energy from nuclear fission, how nuclear reactors operate safely, and the life cycle of nuclear fuel: from mining to disposal. In the last part of the course, we will focus on what matters most in the public debate: the economic and social impact of nuclear energy but also the future of energy systems.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Prof. dr. ir. Jan Kloosterman

Stress Element and Mohr Circle

Drawing a stress element and Mohr Circle is essential step of machine design process. The powerpoint covers the stepwise procedure of drawing a Mohr Circe based on a give stress element. 

Material Type: Lecture, Lecture Notes

Author: Sulaman Pashah

Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation

A collection of free and open primary texts in digital formats for the study of early world literature in English translation. Multiple English translations are provided for comparison and study, as well as open secondary and supplemental resources.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Japeth Koech, Susan Hrach

Literary Criticism Thesis Examples: UTA Libraries, University of Texas at Arlington

This site includes samples of thesis statements for literary criticism essays, as well as thesis patterns that students can experiment with while practicing thesis statements.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: University of Texas Arlington Libraries

A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences

A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Dan Allosso, Salvatore Allosso

Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future

In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is "more than" its interconnected elements. To explain how and why antiracist work in the writing classroom is vital to literacy learning, Inoue incorporates ideas about the white racial habitus that informs dominant discourses in the academy and other contexts. Inoue helps teachers understand the unintended racism that often occurs when teachers do not have explicit antiracist agendas in their assessments. Drawing on his own teaching and classroom inquiry, Inoue offers a heuristic for developing and critiquing writing assessment ecologies that explores seven elements of any writing assessment ecology: power, parts, purposes, people, processes, products, and places.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Asao B. Inoue

Better writing from the beginning: An open text on the college writing process

Covers processes and fundamentals of writing expository essays, including structure, organization and development, diction and style, revision and editing, mechanics and standard usage required for college-level writing. This project was funded by a grant from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission in Oregon, a grant that ran from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. The text of the book is complete (though, in the way of these things, still evolving), but moving it online is still in progress. The chapters available here are ready to be used or copied; additional chapters will be added during the summer of 2017 as the conversion and final copy edits are completed.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Jenn Kepka

Academic Writing I

Composition I focuses on principles of writing, critical reading and essay composition using rhetorical styles common in college-level writing (narrative, example/illustration, compare/contrast, cause-and-effect, argument).

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Lisa Ford, Tompkins Cortland Community College

Argument & Critical Thinking

In this learning area, you will learn how to develop an argumentative essay and stronger critical thinking skills. This learning area will help you develop your arguments, understand your audience, evaluate source material, approach arguments rhetorically, and avoid logical fallacies. Here, you’ll also learn about evaluating other arguments and creating digital writing projects related to your argument.

Material Type: Module