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The casebook offers five reading units organized thematically around significant questions at issue. Reading Unit 1 grounds students in contemporary questions of science and its boundaries, offering a blend of dense and approachable readings intended to spark class conversations on the topic of scientific culture. Units 2 and 3 extend discourses on scientific culture into areas of critical analysis such as gender, race and ethnicity, religion, ethics, and colonialism, as well as examining issues of language and perception. Unit 4 focuses on basic questions of fact, definition, and interpretation by exploring the discourse surrounding anomalies, pseudoscience, and skepticism, making it particularly useful for reviewing and extending students’ understanding of skills learned in Writing 121. Finally, Unit 5 offers a case study on Frankenstein as a techno-moral lesson on overreaching ambition and how it applies to scientific culture today. While the Table of Contents is organized thematically, many readings have cross-unit (and cross-disciplinary) connections and relevance. We encourage instructors to make use of the Alternative Table of Contents and to feel welcome to assign the entire casebook in your courses and/or to use individual readings or units as launching points for individual and team research projects. Supplementary teaching resources can be found in the casebook bibliography.

A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives. The Chemeketa Community College version provides Chemeketa students a more in depth look at some student services that they can access. The Chemeketa version also expands on pre-existing chapters of the original textbook, A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students, by giving examples of how services at Chemeketa work for students and provides them tips on how to navigate the services to be successful at Chemeketa.

Non-traditional students face critical issues surrounding participation and success in college. These critical issues include, but are not limited to, the following

• Strategies for managing competing needs on their time
• Difficulty navigating institutional environments
• Understanding the culture of college
• Transitional services not in place to the same degree as for “traditional” students
• Knowledgeable support systems
• Personal barriers
• Unpredictable influences on their schedules
• Work first, study second priorities
• Paying for college
• Underprepared foundation skills (Reading, Writing, Math, Computer Literacy, Human Relations, Oral Communication).

Most textbooks available on the topic of college transition/success today focus on the traditional 18-year old student and the needs of someone living away from home for the first time.The goal of the book is to help students understand how to select the right college for them and then become acquainted with the inner workings and language of college. The book is designed to be a practical guide for first-generation college students as they navigate potentially unfamiliar topics such as understanding the costs of college beyond tuition, navigating college websites, and defining critical language needed to understand communication regarding the context and culture of the college.

This writing course for advanced students of ESOL offers an integrated approach to metacognition and critical thinking skills, research and source evaluation skills, standard composition and grammar skills, and academic vocabulary skills.

Technical Writing for Technicians covers the processes and fundamentals required for successful workplace writing. The textbook focuses on documents commonly written by technicians, such as: emails, descriptions, customer intake documents, project closeout documentation, bad news messages, instructions, summaries, accident reports, and employment docs (resumes and cover letters).

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This courses presents grammar and composition skills for upper-level ESOL students using the social justice themes of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The course addresses specifically definition, cause-and-effect, and discussion essays using a paragraph-to-essay writing process.

This collection of stories about immigration is based on oral histories with staff, faculty, and students of Portland Community College from over twenty countries. Their narratives cover such topics as education, economic hardships and opportunities, family, marriage, documentation status, citizenship, gender, sexuality, war, violence, xenophobia, refugee camps, religion, politics, and language.

This book contains favorite stories about Oregon from ESOL News Oregon (http://www.tinyurl.com/esolnewsoregon) prepared specifically for advanced ESOL students. Each story contains an image or video; graded text; self-scoring exercises for vocabulary and comprehension practice; discussion prompts, and writing prompts.

This book contains favorite stories about Oregon from ESOL News Oregon (http://www.tinyurl.com/esolnewsoregon) prepared specifically for intermediate ESOL students. Each story contains an image or video; graded text; self-scoring exercises for vocabulary and comprehension practice; discussion prompts, and writing prompts.

This book contains favorite stories about Oregon from ESOL News Oregon (http://www.tinyurl.com/esolnewsoregon) prepared specifically for beginner ESOL students. Each story contains an image or video; graded text; self-scoring exercises for vocabulary and comprehension practice; discussion prompts, and writing prompts.