This text is a compilation of lecture notes from pathophysiology courses I have taught over the last ten years. The goal of the text is to equip future advanced practice nurses with knowledge of pathophysiology for common diseases and disorders they may encounter in the primary care setting.
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Students use the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, why, and how) to evaluate an information source and determine if they would cite it in a paper. This assignment is used as an information literacy exercise at the University of Tennessee Libraries, where students are given a New York Times column to read before completing the assignment in groups. For a copy of this resource as it was originally given to students, go to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vtrPDaeiV6VFJUYUNzRGlfb00/view?usp=sharing. Results of the use of this activity were shared in an article published in the journal Reference & User Services Quarterly 53, no. 4 (Summer 2014): 334-347.
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These are PowerPoint slides for the Exploring public speaking textbook for instructors/students to use.
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The textbook is for individuals who teach the basic public speaking course.
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These lesson plans and materials are designed for high school students, especially 9th and 10th graders. The goals of these lessons are for students to review and learn more about figurative language devices, to compare and contrast poetry from different authors, and understand point of view in order to see that authors have different perspectives in their works. This lesson plan unit covers six different poems from local Emma Bell Miles and famous Henry Thoreau. Each poem has a video, presentation, and handout to accompany it. The lesson plan has been divided into two 50 minute class periods. The first class period is designed to introduce the students to the poems and authors using the various materials. The second class period is designed to cover point of view according to Miles and Thoreau and ask the students to compare and contrast the authors’ perspectives and experiences.
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This online book will not magically make a First Year Experience an easy one. Instead, we hope students gain the knowledge, skills, and motivation to move past challenges they encounter during their college journey. The textbook covers: -Nashville States's degrees and the careers they prepare you for. -Academic and well-being support resources available to you at Nashville State. -Discovering your own personal motivation, career goals, and academic goals that will guide your time at Nashville State
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An activity to practice reflective writing on the topic of food.
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This writing assignment--the formal argument--requires students to use the comparison/contrast mode to support a stand on a controversial historial issue, along with material from sources chosen by their instructor.
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Douglass, Frederick. "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro"Speech, Rochester, NY, July4, 1852. Independence Hall Association (ushistory.org). https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/more/douglass.htmlDescription: Douglass' address to a predominantly white audience regarding the celebration of the Fourth of July by African Americans
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Videos for a general chemistry one course. The textbook used in the course is the OpenStax text Chemistry, Atoms First, 2nd Ed.Coming soon...discussion prompts for The Poisoner's Handbook.
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This file contains grammar lessons and assignments for a Level 1 academic ESL class with an emphasis on applying grammar lessons in writing. It can be combined with the other files in this folder to create an entire OER based class.
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For this activity, students will first complete a mindset assessment to learn about their current mindset. Next, students will review the videos and the attached article entitled "Building Growth Mindset" and answer the four questions posed by Bradley Busch in the article.
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This Java source file contains the "Guess the secret number" game.Students will learn various Java technologies and programming skills by writing this game.
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The Hangman game in Java. Students will learn how to read inputs from the keyboard, how to print outputs, and how to repeat a task using loops.
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Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey,” March 17, 1947. Accessed at https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/56/special-message-congress-greece-and-turkey-truman-doctrine Oct. 24, 2021. This work is in the Public Domain.
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U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.Corbett, P. Scott, Volker Janssen, John M Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, and Paul Vickery. U.S. History. Houston, TX: OpenStax, 2014. https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction .
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Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2. General Correspondence. -1864: Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, August 1, 1862 Clipping of Letter; endorsed by Lincoln. August 1, 1862.Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mal4233500/.
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This resource provides references, writing aids and guides for students writing essays in a literature-based composition course. These materials were culled from several different sites; the individual pages link back to the original resource and indicate the Creative Commons license under which the page is adapted and/or reused. Except where otherwise noted, this resource is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.
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Instructions for completing a final draft oif an illustration essay to be used in conjunction with a peer review activity.
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