Search Constraints
Number of results to display per page
Results for:
Search Results
-
e-book
In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would endow Pompey with unprecedented powers, the bill proved hugely popular among the people, and one of the praetors, Marcus Tullius Cicero, also hastened to lend it his support. In his first ever political speech, variously entitled pro lege Manilia or de imperio Gnaei Pompei, Cicero argues that the war against Mithridates requires the appointment of a perfect general and that the only man to live up to such lofty standards is Pompey. In the section under consideration here, Cicero defines the most important hallmarks of the ideal military commander and tries to demonstrate that Pompey is his living embodiment. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, the incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Cicero's prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning, Area Studies, and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Speeches addresses etc. Latin Cicero Marcus Tullius Pompey -- the Great -- 106 B.C.-48 B.C. Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world's greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero's Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres' alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose. This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero's speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids, and a translation. As a literary artefact, the speech gives us insight into how the supreme master of Latin eloquence developed what we would now call rhetorical "spin". As an historical document, it provides a window into the dark underbelly of Rome's imperial expansion and exploitation of the Near East. Ingo Gildenhard's illuminating commentary on this A-Level set text will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both high school and undergraduate level. It will also be a valuable resource to Latin teachers and to anyone interested in Cicero, language and rhetoric, and the legal culture of Ancient Rome.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning, Area Studies, and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Speeches addresses etc. Latin Cicero Marcus Tullius Textbooks Latin language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
This collection is the first of five dealing with the rudiments of music.
- Subjects:
- Performing Arts
- Keywords:
- Music theory Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
Inferring and Explaining is a book in practical epistemology. It examines the notion of evidence and assumes that good evidence is the essence of rational thinking. Evidence is the cornerstone of the natural, social, and behavioral sciences. But it is equally central to almost all academic pursuits and, perhaps most importantly, to the basic need to live an intelligent and reflective life. The book further assumes that a particular model of evidence— Inference to the Best Explanation—not only captures the essence of (good) evidence but suggests a very practical, and pedagogically useful, procedure for evidence evaluation. The book is intended primarily for two sorts of introductory courses. First and foremost are courses in critical thinking (or informal or practical logic). In addition, however, the book has application in more general courses (or major sections of courses) in introductory philosophy.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Explanation Critical thinking Knowledge Theory of Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one multimedia textbook geared towards multiple learning styles and disciplines. The components of the textbook, including the embedded videos, could be swapped in and out in order to accommodate a professor’s best idea of his/her own course design.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Report writing Textbooks Academic writing
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Composition exercises Textbooks English language -- Rhetoric
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
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.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Humanities Social sciences Textbooks Academic writing
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual’s reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about ‘oughts’ and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming.Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Ethics Metaethics Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
The goal of this book is to improve your logical-reasoning skills. These skills are also called "critical thinking skills." They are a complex weave of abilities that help you get someone's point, generate reasons for your own point, evaluate the reasons given by others, decide what or what not to do, decide what information to accept or reject, explain a complicated idea, apply conscious quality control as you think, and resist propaganda. Your most important critical thinking skill is your skill at making judgments─not snap judgments that occur in the blink of an eye, but those that require careful reasoning. This book is also available as an adaptable Word file.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Logic Critical thinking Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
To complete the course ECUR 415.3: Current Issues in EAL, students are required to submit a final paper that reflects their growing knowledge about English as an Additional Language (EAL). EAL is the term used in Saskatchewan to describe students who speak languages other than English and require adequate levels of English to be successful with the school curriculum. Most students enrolled in the online course ECUR 415 are practicing teachers who are working toward a Post-Degree Certificate in EAL Education (PDCEAL), while continuing to live and work in various locations both within and outside of the province. The certificate program, offered through the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, is recognized by provincial education authorities as being equivalent to one full year of post-degree study. As such, the certificate equips teachers with the knowledge and expertise to be considered teacher-specialists of EAL Education. The course ECUR 415 also attracts some pre-service teachers who are pursuing a Bachelor of Education degree and have an interest in EAL Education.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Study teaching Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
This textbook is based on the MOOC Responsible Innovation offered by the TU Delft. It provides a framework to reflect on the ethics and risks of new technologies. How can we make sure that innovations do justice to social and ethical values? How can we minimize (unknown)risks?The book explains: The concept and importance of responsible innovation for society Key ethical concepts and considerations to analyse the risks of new technologies Different types of innovation (e.g. radical, niche, incremental, frugal) Roadmap for Responsible Innovation by Industry The concept of Value Sensitive Design (VSD) It includes a link to all the web lectures as well as case studies ranging from care robots and nuclear energy to Artificial Intelligence and self-driving vehicles.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Risk management Technological innovations -- Moral ethical aspects Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
We intend this work to be less a bestiary of bad ideas about writing than an effort to name bad ideas and suggest better ones. Some of those bad ideas are quite old, such as the archetype of the inspired genius author, the five-paragraph essay, or the abuse of adjunct writing teachers. Others are much newer, such as computerized essay scoring or gamification. Some ideas, such as the supposed demise of literacy brought on by texting, are newer bad ideas but are really instances of older bad ideas about literacy always being in a cycle of decline. Yet the same core questions such as what is good writing, what makes a good writer, how should writing be assessed, and the like persist across contexts, technologies, and eras. The project has its genesis in frustration, but what emerges is hope: hope for leaving aside bad ideas and thinking about writing in more productive, inclusive, and useful ways.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Composition exercises English language -- Rhetoric -- Study teaching Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others’ behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition. It considers basic questions about moral and ethical judgment: Is there such a thing as something that is really right or really wrong independent of time, place and perspective? What is the relationship between religion and ethics? How can we reconcile self-interest and ethics? Is it ever acceptable to harm one person in order to help others? What do recent discussions in evolutionary biology or have to say about human moral systems? What is the relation between gender and ethics? The authors invite you to participate in their exploration of these and many other questions in philosophical ethics.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Ethics Philosophy Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
This book is a broad introduction to Australian politics and public policy. This field of study is important for Australians to understand the exercise of political power, their history and the scope for change. It is also important for analysts outside Australia looking for comparative cases. Within this volume are diverse topics and perspectives, demonstrating that the study of Australian politics and policy is not ‘fixed’. Rather, it is a contested field of academic scholarship. Indeed, the volume’s editors do not all agree on the content of this introduction!
- Subjects:
- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Politics government Australia Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
Welcome to composition and rhetoric! While most of you are taking this course because it is required, we hope that all of you will leave with more confidence in your reading, writing, researching, and speaking abilities as these are all elements of freshman composition. Many times, these elements are presented in excellent textbooks written by top scholars. While the collaborators of this particular textbook respect and value those textbooks available from publishers, we have been concerned with disenfranchising students who do not have the resources to purchase textbooks. Therefore, we decided to put together this Open Educational Resource (OER) explicitly for use in freshman composition courses at Texas A&M University. Thanks to a generous grant from Dean David Carlson of the Texas A&M University Libraries, this project became a reality. It is a collaborative endeavor undertaken by faculty in the libraries and English Department as part of the Provost’s Student Success Initiatives at Texas A&M and continues to be a work in progress. Combined, Dr. Terri Pantuso, Dr. Kathy Anders, and Prof. Sarah LeMire have over 30 years of experience in writing and research instruction. Our goal is for students to leave this course as critical thinkers, polished writers, and informed citizens who can engage in civil public discourse. Gig ‘em, Ags!
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Composition exercises Textbooks English language -- Rhetoric Academic writing
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
Others
Grammar Monster is an interactive website designed to revise (or teach) English grammar and punctuation. It is aimed at native English speakers and advanced students who are required to produce high-quality correspondence and want to improve their existing accuracy.Although the site has paid-for items, the majority of what you see if free, including lessons and test on punctuation, definitions of parts of speech, grammatical terms, a section on common grammatical errors and also easily confused words. Grammar monster is also suitable for ADVANCED ESL students. Grammar Monster is designed for people who already write reasonably well and doesn't cover basic grammar points which a native English speaker would already know. For example, the site shows how to use semicolons, but not how to conjugate verbs.
- Course related:
- ELC1011 Practical English for University Studies
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Grammar
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
Welcome to the official YouTube channel of the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. English Language Centre Objectives: 1. To enhance students' communication skills so that they can pursue academic and professional excellence 2. To foster students' independent, life-long English language learning and whole-person development 3. To support the pursuit of English language excellence within the PolyU and in the wider Hong Kong community Find more about us here: https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/
- Course related:
- ELC6001 Presentation Skills for Research Students
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Education Higher -- Computer-assisted instruction English language -- Study teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
Academic Word List Coxhead (2000). The most frequent word in each family is in italics. There are 570 headwords and about 3000 words altogether. For more information see The Academic Word List. For more practice see: Schmitt & Schmitt (2005), or the Compleat Lexical Tutor.
- Course related:
- ELC1011 English for University Studies and ELC1013 English for University Studies
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Vocabulary English language -- Rhetoric
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
The Native Korean numbers are used when you say your age, tell the time or count something in Korean.And this system is only needed to tell the numbers from 1 to 99. Bigger numbers (like 100 for instance) existed in the past in native Korean numbers but they are no longer used. So all you have to remember is the numbers between 1~99. Therefore, it would be much easier for you to memorize these numbers compared to the Sino Korean Numbers
- Course related:
- CBS2631 Korean 1
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Korean language --Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the only large, genre-balanced corpus of American English. COCA is probably the most widely-used corpus of English, and it is related to many other corpora of English that we have created. These corpora were formerly known as the "BYU Corpora", and they offer unparalleled insight into variation in English. The corpus contains more than one billion words of text (25+ million words each year 1990-2019) from eight genres: spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, academic texts, and (with the update in March 2020): TV and Movies subtitles, blogs, and other web pages.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Corpora (Linguistics)
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
Khan Academy Grammarian David Rheinstrom welcomes you to his favorite topic: the study of language, its rules, and its conventions. By understanding English – by speaking it, by writing it, by reading this very sentence – you are a grammarian yourself! Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanitie... Grammar on Khan Academy: Grammar is the collection of rules and conventions that make languages go. This section is about Standard American English, but there's something here for everyone.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Grammar
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Courseware
This course studies what is language and what does knowledge of a language consist of. It asks how do children learn languages and is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do languages change; is any language or dialect superior to another; and how are speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions is provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words, and sound systems. No prior training in linguistics is assumed.
- Subjects:
- English Language and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Linguistics
- Resource Type:
- Courseware
-
MOOC
Those who work in modern language service industry are required to be capable of using computers and Internet to aid their translation job by adapting a variety of efficient tools, rather than just using word processor tools and several basic computer-aided translation software. This course teaches the basic concepts of computer-aided translation technology, helps students learn to use a variety of computer-aided translation tools, enhances their ability to engage in various kinds of language service in such a technical environment, and helps them understand what the modern language service industry looks like. This course covers introduction to modern language services industry, basic principles and concepts of translation technology, information technology used in the process of language translation, how to use electronic dictionaries, Internet resources and corpus tools, practice of different computer-aided translation tools, translation quality assessment, basic concepts of machine translation, globalization, localization and so on. As a compulsory course for students majoring in Translation and Interpreting, this course is also suitable for students with or without language major background. By learning this course, students can better understand modern language service industry and their work efficiency will be improved for them to better deliver translation service. The course is one of the PKU-DeTao MOOCs, which is a joint effort by Peking University and DeTao Masters Academy.
- Subjects:
- Translating and Interpreting and Computing
- Keywords:
- Machine translating Translating interpreting
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
-
Video
Dr Keyu Jin will discuss the impact of China’s financial reforms. Keyu Jin (@KeyuJin) is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics and a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics and Centre for Economic Performance. The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching. The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Economic history China
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
Since 1979, we have been campaigning against gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information. We have helped many government departments and other official organisations with their documents, reports and publications. We believe that everyone should have access to clear and concise information. The campaign officially began after founder, Chrissie Maher OBE, publicly shredded hundreds of official documents in Parliament Square, London. Entirely independent, we fund our work through our commercial services, which include editing and training. We have worked with thousands of organisations including many UK government departments, public authorities and international banks, helping them make sure their public information is as clear as possible. Our Crystal Mark now appears on more than 23,000 documents worldwide. Launched in 1990, and the first mark of its kind, the Crystal Mark is used by over 1600 organisations who want to provide the clearest possible information.
- Course related:
- ELC3721 English Communication for Hospitality and Tourism Management
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Composition exercises
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Others
This website provides knowledge of different Chinese histories and covers the topic of : (1) Inventions & Science-Printing Press (2) Taiping Rebellion (3) Ming Dynasty (4) Qin Dynasty (5) Han Dynasty (6) Tang Dynasty (7) Shang Dynasty (8) Skill Road (9) 8 Parties so wild they made it into history books (10) Greeks may have influenced China's terra cotta army (11) 7 historical treasures discovered by accident
- Course related:
- APSS1H34C Governing China Politics and Legal System
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China History
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
This video is about the how to introduce yourself in English in 7 steps.
- Course related:
- ELC1011 Practical English for University Studies
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Self-instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
In this learning resources page, you can find resources related to learning scripts, debating tipsm english exercise, exam tips and advices from the experts.
- Course related:
- ELC2011 Advanced English Reading and Writing Skills
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
To know more on Chinese folk religions
- Course related:
- CC307P Chinese Folk Religions and Beliefs
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Gods Chinese Religion China
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Have you ever wondered what makes metaphors, similes, and analogies different? Or do you want to know what the three types of irony in literature are? If you're analyzing prose, poetry, nonfiction, or any other piece of text, you'll need to know the literary devices highlighted in this video. I'll show you the definitions of each device and concrete examples drawn from some of my favorite books, poems, movies, and TV shows. These devices will definitely help if you are annotating text or taking the AP Lit and AP Lang exams. Stay tuned for part 2!
- Course related:
- ELC2011 Advanced English Reading and Writing Skills
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Discourse analysis Figures of speech Metaphor
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
This video explains the topic of Chinese character classification.
- Course related:
- CBS2C10P An Exploration of Chinese Characters and Scripts
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language
- Keywords:
- Chinese language -- Etymology Chinese characters
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
This video explains the topic of Korean vowels and diphthongs.
- Course related:
- CBS2631 Introductory Korean I
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Korean language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
The Online King Sejong Institute currently has three types of courses. (1) Cyber Korean Courses: After enrolling for Korean classes within a set period and being approved, you can start studying. An online teacher will manage your learning and provide feedback on questions and homework. (2) Cyber Korean Culture Courses:Shall we learn about Korean culture such as K-pop, travel in Korea, and Korean food? This is a course focused on learning more about Korea through special topics. Check out interesting Korean culture! (3) Self-study Courses: This is a course for those who want to study Korean by themselves. You can always preview or review Materials that you want to learn Korean anywhere, anytime.
- Course related:
- CBS4637 Advanced Korean I
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Korean language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
With this video compilation you'll be able to get started with the Japanese language and have conversations after only 4 hours! You've decided to start learning Japanese, so let's build up your vocabulary! In this video, you'll learn some of the most important words and phrases in the Japanese language. If you want to start learning Japanese, this video is made for you. Our host expresses herself in simple Japanese, with subtitles. This video will challenge your listening comprehension skills and help you progress in your Japanese study.
- Course related:
- CBS 2501 Introduction to Japanese
- Subjects:
- Japanese Language
- Keywords:
- Japanese language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
課程應用大量具體生動的史實資料，再現近百年來這一跌宕起伏、波瀾壯闊的歷史進程，特別是重現這一過程中那些激蕩人心、感天動地的重大事件和人物，並在此基礎上總結這一過程的根本經驗和啟示。
- Course related:
- CC312P Women in China
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China History Women
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
John Mill and the Greatest Happiness Principle -- A Comic Course Wanna watch the full version of the comic that explains the ideas of Mill and other philosophers? Join our free online course: https://www.edx.org/course/practical-thinking-skills-for-a-successful-life-2 You can also ask questions and discuss ideas with professional thinkers in the course forums for free!
- Course related:
- CBS1A22 Creativity and Creative Thinking.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Mill John Stuart 1806-1873 Happiness
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
This video is actually a link for learning Japanese language and the video belongs to the edX course organizer, Waseda University
- Course related:
- CBS1C16 Understanding Japan: A Journey into Japanese Culture and Society
- Subjects:
- Japanese Language
- Keywords:
- Japanese language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
We have everything you need! Learn with books, e-books and online courses. You can learn to speak Korean anywhere, anytime, with our fun online lessons and beautiful paper books. We will help you continue learning without giving up.
- Course related:
- CBS2631 Introductory Korean I
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Korean language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
MOOC
Japanese language has become extremely popular among learners in recent years, since it is the best way to explore one of the richest and most mysterious cultures of the modern East. This course is aimed at those who are interested in understanding Japanese way of thinking and view of the world through learning the language. Course materials are provided by the teaching staff from the Department of Japan Studies. Upon completion of this course the learners will be able: 1. To read simple texts in Japanese and write using the hiragana and katakana scripts as well as the kanji characters. 2. To understand basic vocabulary in speech and use it in everyday communicative situations. 3. To form their own sentences using the provided grammar material. The course provides extensive materials on Japanese grammar, phonetics, writing system and communication etiquette, as well as exercises for learners to apply the new knowledge. The vocabulary of the course consists of more than 200 words. Those who are interested in continuing their learning of Japanese language can proceed to the second part of this course - Japanese for beginners 2.
- Course related:
- CBS2501 Introductory Japanese 1
- Subjects:
- Japanese Language
- Keywords:
- Japanese language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
-
Video
In this video I outline the basic process types in English. Process is an experiential function of the verbal group. In functional grammar, we understand that verbs may have different functions - they are not only 'doing' words but also words of 'thinking', 'feeling', 'being', 'having', 'saying' and more.
- Course related:
- ENGL2006 Analysis of English Grammar
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Linguistics English language -- Grammar
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Dr Kalyani Vallath explains very important terms from Cultural Studies to help students of English Literature in preparing for NTA NET English, university entrance exams, and to help with research. Video made by Hariharan S Vallath
- Course related:
- APSS1B12 Media and Everyday Life
- Subjects:
- Sociology and Cultural Studies
- Keywords:
- Mass media -- Political aspects Mass media -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
Translation means converting written information from one language into another. Conversion is not restricted to written text. For example, text can be converted to a CD, DVD or sound file. Tip: Learning about your target audience will help you to identify the most suitable format into which the resource should be translated. For a target audience with limited literacy in their community language, information translated into written text is unsuitable.
- Course related:
- CBS3801Introduction to Translation
- Subjects:
- Translating and Interpreting
- Keywords:
- Translating interpreting
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
In 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke teaches you linguistics! The content is based on an introductory university-level curriculum, curated by a team of linguists: Lauren Gawne, Jessi Grieser, and Gretchen McCulloch. By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Understand how linguists approach analyzing language, including our ethical responsibility to use our increased understanding of how language works to be more compassionate with language * Identify and analyze the structural features of language, across different levels, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics * Apply this structural approach to describe language as it is used, including its social functions, how people learn language, and how language is used in technology * Recognize that there are thousands of spoken languages and hundreds of signed languages in the world * Identify the International Phonetic Alphabet and understand the system behind how the IPA chart is organized"
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Linguistics
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
e-book
"This book is an introduction to communication theory - the theory of how humans share, encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each other."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Communication Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Liberté, by Gretchen Angelo, is a first-year college French textbook with a true communicative approach. Each chapter is built around communicative strategies. Clearly dened [sic] objectives in communication, culture, and grammar are given at the start of each chapter, and summary exercises at the end allow students to measure their mastery of these objectives."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Textbooks French language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"forall x is an open access introductory textbook in formal logic. It covers translation, proofs, and formal semantics for sentential and predicate logic."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Logic
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Scott McLean's Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements, this book addresses each concept with clear, concise and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate, and reinforce, learning."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Textbooks English language -- Grammar
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Native Peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric, historic and contemporary information is presented. Each chapter begins with an example from the oral tradition that reflects the theme of the chapter."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Indians of North America Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This book's title tells its intent. It is written to help you understand media and culture. The media and culture are so much a part of our days that sometimes it is difficult to step back and appreciate and apprehend their great impact on our lives. The book's title, and the book itself, begin with a focus squarely on media. Think of your typical day. If you are like many people, you wake to a digital alarm clock or perhaps your cell phone. Soon after waking, you likely have a routine that involves some media. Some people immediately check the cell phone for text messages. Others will turn on the computer and check Facebook, email, or websites. Some people read the newspaper. Others listen to music on an iPod or CD. Some people will turn on the television and watch a weather channel, cable news, or Sports Center. Heading to work or class, you may chat on a cell phone or listen to music. Your classes likely employ various types of media from course management software to PowerPoint presentations to DVDs to YouTube. You may return home and relax with video games, television, movies, more Facebook, or music. You connect with friends on campus and beyond with text messages or Facebook. And your day may end as you fall asleep to digital music. Media for most of us are entwined with almost every aspect of life and work. Understanding media will not only help you appreciate the role of media in your life but also help you be a more informed citizen, a more savvy consumer, and a more successful worker. Media influence all those aspects of life as well."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Communication and Cultural Studies
- Keywords:
- Culture Mass media Social media Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of reading and studying literature, even earlier literature. It shows students, some of whom will themselves become teachers, that literature actually has something to say to them. Furthermore, it shows that literature is meant to be enjoyed, that, as the Roman poet Horace (and his Renaissance disciple Sir Philip Sidney) said, the functions of literature are to teach and to delight. The book will also be useful to teachers who want to convey their passion for literature to their students. After an introductory chapter that offers advice on how to read (and teach) literature, the book consists of a series of chapters that examine individual literary works ranging from The Iliad to Charles Dickens' Bleak House. These chapters can not substitute for reading the actual works. Rather they are intended to help students read those works. They are attempts to demystify the act of reading and to show that these works, whether they are nearly three thousand or less than two hundred years old, still have important things to say to contemporary readers."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- English Literature
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Literature
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Aldous Huxley Annual with the permission of the authors and editors. Designed to supplement the annotated complete texts of three famous short novels: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, each casebook offers cross-disciplinary guided research topics which will encourage majors in fields other than English to undertake topics in diverse areas, including History, Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Biology, and Psychology. Selections have also been included to encourage topical, thematic, and generic cross-referencing. Students will also be exposed to a wide-range of approaches, including new-critical, psychoanalytic, historical, and feminist."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- English Literature
- Keywords:
- Textbooks English literature
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Grammar Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Open Modernisms is an open, Creative-Commons-licensed online platform that allows teachers and scholars to build custom anthologies of out-of-copyright primary materials for the period 1850-1950. It uses a custom-built Islandora module to host a library of documents from which users can select and rearrange in whatever order they like
- Subjects:
- English Literature
- Keywords:
- English literature
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
Welcome to Francais Interactif where readers can explore the French language and culture by following the lives of real students from the University of Texas who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. In addition to following the exploits of these UT students, visitors can also watch interviews of native French speakers, as well as scenes of day-to-day interactions in France.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- French language -- Study teaching -- English speakers
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"American Government is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including Insider Perspective features and a Get Connected module that shows students how they can get engaged in the political process. The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them."--Open Textbook Library.
- Subjects:
- Area Studies and Political Science
- Keywords:
- United States Politics government
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Since Indigenous peoples have developed time-proven approaches to sustaining both community and environment, Elders and young people are concerned that this rich legacy of Indigenous Science with its wealth of environmental knowledge and the wisdom of previous generations could disappear if it is not respected, studied and understood by today's children and youth. A perspective where relationships between home place and all other beings that inhabit the earth is vitally important to all residents - both inheritors of ancient Indigenous Knowledge and wisdom, and newcomers who can experience the engagement, joy and promise of science instilled with a sense of place. This book takes a step forward toward preserving and actively using the knowledge, stories, and lessons for today and future generations, and with it a worldview that informs everyday attitudes toward the earth. Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science is far more than a set of research papers or curriculum studies. The project outputs include both, but they are incorporated into a theoretical structure that can provide the methodological basis for future efforts that attempt to develop culturally responsive Indigenous Science curricula in home places. It is not just one or two angels to organize, but multiple interwoven approaches and cases that give this project its exceptional importance. Thus, the project outputs have been organized into two books. Book 1 provides an overview of why traditional knowledge and wisdom should be included in the science curriculum, a window into the science and technologies of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America, Indigenous worldview, culturally responsive teaching strategies and curriculum models, and evaluative techniques. It is intended that the rich examples and cases, combined with the resources listed in the appendices, will enable teachers and students to explore Indigenous Science examples in the classroom
- Subjects:
- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Ethnoscience Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This is an English-language skills textbook to help ESL students acquire communication skills in the community (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The book is aimed at Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) levels 5/6, focusing on intercultural skills and essential skills: reading text, document use, writing, oral communication, thinking skills, working with others, and computer use"--BC Campus website.
-
e-book
"This Open Educational Resource (OER), developed by Olds College is collaboration with the Government of Alberta, is a series of modules intended for use in Higher Education courses or by independent learners. This resource is useful for instructors whose courses cover introductory communication skills, workplace communication, technical communication, or business writing. It contains four modules (Foundations, Writing, Presentations, and Interpersonal), each with its own lesson plans, assessments, and supporting materials. Below, you will find online access to the entire series, plus an instructor overview of the modules. For the PDF and editable files, and instructor resources for each individual module, select the FIND links below"--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Communication and English Language
- Keywords:
- Business writing Communication Textbooks Communication of technical information
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Concise Introduction to Logic is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Logic Reasoning
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and social movements. It is designed as a first anthology for intermediate Spanish students at American universities. Although brief, it includes poetry, drama in verse and short story. The works have been selected for their literary interest and the social importance of their themes. They are all by canonical authors"--BC Campus website
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Spanish language -- Study teaching (Secondary) 1800-1899 Spanish literature
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"The term 'capacity building' has come into common usage in twenty-first century international development. While the term means different things to different people, it is often used to describe an infusion of knowledge or skills to help 'build' a government's or institution's ability to address key development challenges. However, like other well intentioned interventions from the industrialized West, such 'capacity building' can have destructive, as well as productive, impacts. This volume problematizes such activities and presents an alternative approach to promoting capacity in development contexts. The volume starts with an exploration of the concept of capacity building and goes on to focus on two examples of capacity promotion for early childhood education, care and development (ECD). The First Nations Partnerships Program (FNPP), an innovative and successful post-secondary education program initiated in 1989 at the request of a large tribal council in northern Canada, led to 10 educational deliveries with diverse Indigenous communities over the subsequent two decades. The second program, launched in 1994 at the request of UNICEF headquarters, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa. While the program encompasses a range of capacity-promoting activities, the central vehicle for this ECD development work is the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU), a program created in 2001 and now in transition to African universities. This book describes approaches to capacity promotion that respond to the complexities and possibilities of communities-at local and country levels. These initiatives challenge established developmental narratives in ECD and international development, and in so doing provide alternative ways for scholars and practitioners in ECD, education, and the broad international development field to enhance capacities"--BC Campus website.
- Keywords:
- Early childhood education Child development Child care
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Le terme "renforcement des capacités" est entré dans le langage courant durant le développement international du vingt-et-unième siècle. Alors que ce terme a une signification différente pour différentes personnes, il est souvent utilisé pour décrire une infusion de connaissances ou de compétences pour contribuer à la création d'un gouvernement ou institution capable de répondre aux défis majeurs liés au développement. Toutefois, comme d'autres interventions bien intentionnées de l'Ouest industrialisé, un tel "renforcement des capacités" peut avoir un effet autant destructeur que productif. Ce volume problématise de telles activités et présente une autre façon de promouvoir la construction de capacité dans le cadre du développement. Le volume commence par une exploration du concept de renforcement des capacités et se concentre ensuite sur deux exemples de promotion de capacités pour l'éducation, les soins et le développement de la petite enfance (DPE). Le Programme de Partenariats des Premières Nations (PPPN), un programme d'éducation postsecondaire innovateur et efficace lancé en 1989 à la demande d'un grand conseil tribal dans le nord du Canada, a mené à 10 apports éducatifs dans diverses communautés autochtones au cours des vingt ans qui ont suivis. Le deuxième programme, lancé en 1994 à la demande du siège de l'UNICEF, met l'accent sur l'Afrique subsaharienne. Alors que le programme inclut toute une gamme d'activités qui concernent la promotion de capacités, le vecteur central pour ce travail de développement est l'Université Virtuelle pour le Développement de la Petite-Enfance (UVDPE), un programme créé en 2001 et maintenant en phase de transition vers les universités africaines. Ce livre décrit des approches pour la promotion de capacité qui répondent aux complexités et aux possibilités des communautés - au niveau local ainsi que national. Ces initiatives défient le discours actuel en ce qui concerne le développent dans le cadre du DPE et du développement international et, ce faisant, fournit d'autres moyens de renforcer les capacités pour les chercheurs et les professionnels dans le DPE, l'éducation, et le vaste domaine du développement international"--BC Campus website.
- Keywords:
- Child development Early childhood education Child care
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"It is important for students not only to get an appreciation and understanding of philosophy but also to be exposed to the very words and ideas of those who have shaped our thinking over the centuries. Accordingly, the title of this collection hints at the facts that these readings are from the original sources and that these philosophers were the originators of many of the issues we still discuss today. Major areas of philosophy covered here are: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Socio-Political Philosophy, and finally, Aesthetics"--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Philosophical literature Philosophy European Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Speaking and Writing Punjabi, by Ranbir Johal, is an introductory Punjabi textbook/workbook. This textbook is organized around a communicative approach with each chapter containing dialogues and exercises based on topics such as greetings and introductions, family and friends, daily routine, food and shopping. Ranbir Johal teaches Punjabi language and South Asian content courses at Kwantlen Polytechnic University."--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Panjabi language
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"No matter what your field is, having professional communication skills are essential to success in today's workplace. This book covers key business communications topics that will help you in your career, including intercultural communication, team work, professional writing, audience analysis and adapting messages, document formatting, oral communication, and more."--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Communication Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This book has been written for adult students of English Language Arts at a Grade 10 level. As such, it meets the criteria established by the British Columbia Ministry of Education while providing content suitable for adult learners. The goal of the book is to help students develop skills in reading, writing, language use, and study skills. The book is divided into ten units, each of which focuses on a specific theme
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Textbooks English language
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This books provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. The text includes a number of features such as learning objectives, exercises, real world examples, key terms, and post-chapter assessments.This text is adapted from Business Communication for Success. This 2018 adaptation has significantly reduced the size and scope of the original publication and added Canadian examples. This open textbook is designed in 12 chapters featuring a spectrum of current and relevant Canadian business communication topics."--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Communication and English Language
- Keywords:
- Business communication Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This is the WSIA edition of Trudy's Govier's seminal volume, Problems in Argument Analysis and Evaluation. Originally published in 1987 by Foris Publications, this was a pioneering work that played a major role in establishing argumentation theory as a discipline. Today, it is as relevant to the field as when it first appeared, with discussions of questions and issues that remain central to the study of argument. It has defined the main approaches to many of those issues and guided the ways in which we might respond to them. From this foundation, it sets the stage for further investigations and emerging research. This is a second edition of the book that is corrected and updated by the author, with new prefaces to each chapter."--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Reasoning Textbooks Logic
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Knowing Home attempts to capture the creative vision of Indigenous scientific knowledge and technology that is derived from an ecology of a home place. The traditional wisdom component of Indigenous Science - the values and ways of decision-making - assists humans in their relationship with each other, the land and water, and all of creation. Indigenous perspectives have the potential to give insight and guidance to the kind of environmental ethics and deep understanding that we must gain as we attempt to solve the increasingly complex problems of the 21st century. This book provides a window into the vast storehouse of innovations and technologies of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America. It is our hope that the Indigenous Science examples, research, and curriculum models will inspire deep reflection regarding the under-representation of Aboriginal students in the sciences. It is intended that the rich examples and cases, combined with the resources listed in the appendices, will enable teachers and students to explore Indigenous Science examples in the classroom, and in addition, support the development of curriculum projects in home places."--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Ethnoscience Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Media, Society, Culture, and You is an approachable introductory Mass Communication text that covers major mass communication terms and concepts including "digital culture." It discusses various media platforms and how they are evolving as Information and Communication Technologies change"--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Mass media culture
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This is a textbook on formal logic. The book is divided into eight parts. Part I introduces the topic and notions of logic in an informal way, without introducing a formal language yet. Parts II-IV concern truth-functional languages. In it, sentences are formed from basic sentences using a number of connectives ('or', 'and', 'not', 'if . . . then') which just combine sentences into more complicated ones. We discuss logical notions such as entailment in two ways: semantically, using the method of truth tables (in Part III) and proof-theoretically, using a system of formal derivations (in Part IV). Parts V-VII deal with a more complicated language, that of first-order logic. It includes, in addition to the connectives of truth-functional logic, also names, predicates, identity, and the so-called quantifiers. These additional elements of the language make it much more expressive than the truth-functional language, and we'll spend a fair amount of time investigating just how much one can express in it. Again, logical notions for the language of first-order logic are defined semantically, using interpretations, and proof-theoretically, using a more complex version of the formal derivation system introduced in Part IV. Part VIII covers an advanced topic: that of expressive adequacy of the truth-functional connectives"--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Logic
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This textbook is based on the Open Logic Project. It covers naive set theory, first-order logic, sequent calculus and natural deduction, the completeness, compactness, and Löwenheim-Skolem theorems, Turing machines, and the undecidability of the halting problem and of first-order logic"--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Logic
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Cree: Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This collection includes an updated and redesigned Cree language textbook, Cree language audio labs, and a Cree language workbook"--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Cree language
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"This open textbook is designed to introduce readers to the basics of professional communications in technical fields: audience and task analysis in workplace contexts, clear and concise communications style, effective document design, teamwork and collaboration, and fundamental research skills"--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Communication Technical writing -- Textbooks Business writing Textbooks Communication of technical information
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Le manuel Résumer, synthétiser, argumenter s'adresse aux étudiants de français langue seconde de niveau avancé (3e ou 4e année universitaire, essentiellement). Comme son titre l'indique, le manuel couvre l'écriture de résumés et de synthèses (cinq chapitres) et de textes argumentatifs (cinq chapitres). Les dix chapitres permettent de couvrir facilement un cours de six crédits
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- French language -- Composition exercises French language -- Study teaching (Secondary) French language -- Written French
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"The purpose of this book is to help students achieve the learning objectives of their English 12 course. These include how to write intelligently, clearly, and fluently
-
e-book
"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
-
e-book
"This textbook pioneers a new approach to the study of international relations by historicizing the material traditionally taught in international relations courses and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates, and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa, and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, Indic, and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism, and globalization - and their consequences on contemporary society"--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- History
- Keywords:
- International relations -- History
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
Communication beginnings : an introductory listening and speaking text for English language learners
"This textbook is designed for advanced beginning-intermediate English language learners in an academic English program. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary and reviews basic grammar points. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers, as well as links to additional listening resources on the web."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Problems exercises English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers English language -- Spoken English Listening
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Building Blocks of Academic Writing covers typical writing situations for developing academic writers, from prewriting and research through expressing themselves online. Developmental work in different types of paragraphs--descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive--allows students to build capacity for longer essays. Each chapter includes review questions with a Canadian focus that instructors can assign to help students practise the skills developed in the text. This book aligns with the BC ABE Level: Intermediate English"--BC Campus website.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Academic writing
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Since the 18th century, the historical study of "Indians," "Natives," and "Aboriginals" in universities and colleges was contextualized within the story of colonization and growing European influence. Whatever justification might be mustered for that practice, it had real and dire effects: Canadians -- including many Indigenous people -- came to understand Indigenous histories as tangential, small, unimportant, and even a blind alley. This kind of thinking enabled Canadian authorities and citizens to regard Indigenous communities as being "without history," as in, outside of history, which we can agree in modern times is simply untrue, as this book strives to show. The preface introduces you to some of the practices and challenges of Indigenous history, focusing on the nature and quality of sources, innovative historical methodologies, and the leading historiographical trends (that is, what historians are thinking very broadly and what they have studied in the last decade or four). It turns, then, to histories of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere before ca. 1500. The twelve chapters that follow are arranged under three headings: Commerce and Allies, Engaging Colonialism, and Culture Crisis Change Challenge. And there is a thirteenth chapter that brings us deep enough into the twenty-first century to allow a visit with two of the most important recent developments in Canadian civic life: Idle No More and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Both of these processes arose from the failures of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous communities. They reveal, therefore, as much about the history of Canada as they do of the historical experiences of Indigenous peoples"--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Canada Indigenous peoples History
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively. The chapters, all written by experts in the field, provide an overview of what arguments are, the different types of arguments one can expect to encounter in both philosophy and everyday life, and how to recognise common argumentative mistakes."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Philosophy Textbooks Logic
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion introduces some of the major traditional arguments for and against the existence of God, as well as some less well-known, but thought-provoking arguments for the existence of God, and one of the most important new challenges to religious belief from the Cognitive Science of Religion. An introductory chapter traces the connection between philosophy and religion throughout Western history, and a final chapter addresses the place of non-Western and non-monotheistic religions within contemporary philosophy of religion."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Religious Studies
- Keywords:
- Philosophy Religion Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-book
"forall x: Calgary is a full-featured textbook on formal logic. It covers key notions of logic such as consequence and validity of arguments, the syntax of truth-functional propositional logic TFL and truth-table semantics, the syntax of first-order (predicate) logic FOL with identity (first-order interpretations), translating (formalizing) English in TFL and FOL, and Fitch-style natural deduction proof systems for both TFL and FOL. It also deals with some advanced topics such as modal logic, soundness, and functional completeness. Exercises with solutions are available. It is provided in PDF (for screen reading, printing, and a special version for dyslexics) and in LaTeX source code. A proof editor/checker for the proof system used is available at proofs.openlogicproject.org."--BCcampus website.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Logic
- Resource Type:
- e-book
-
e-journal
In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY) license. They may be downloaded, printed, distributed, or posted online as long as they are properly attributed. The journal including:
Computer Reviews Journal
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research
Journal of Evolutionary Medicine Journal of Orthopaedics and Trauma
MathLAB Journal Socialsci Journal
To Chemistry Journal
To Physics Journal
Mintage Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences
Journal of Foreign Language Education and Technology
- Subjects:
- Medicine, Chemistry, Computing, Biology, Foreign Language Learning, and Physics
- Keywords:
- Science Periodicals Computer science Language languages--Computer-assisted instruction Medicine Technology Chemistry Social sciences Physics
- Resource Type:
- e-journal
-
e-journal
Edorium journals is one of the leading academic publishers of open access journals. It publishes peer reviewed journals and international journals in fields including basic sciences, medical specialties and surgical specialties. You can refer the open access journals list on Edorium Journals to know the sub-specialties under which scholarly articles can be published here. It covers a variety of disciplines including medicine, science, humanities, technology, chemistry, arts, biology, engineering, management, physics, cancer research, neuroscience, genetics, immunology and infection, environment, developmental biology, bioengineering, clinical skills, biochemistry, behavior, psychology, and many more.
- Subjects:
- Environmental Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology, Biology, and Medicine
- Keywords:
- Science Periodicals Arts Physics Technology Chemistry Social sciences Environmental sciences Engineering Humanities Biology Medicine
- Resource Type:
- e-journal
-
e-journal
Estonian Academy Publishers issues seven open access scientific journals, peer-reviewed, indexed and abstracted in international review publications and databases. All journals have an international Editorial board. Publications of the Estonian Academy Publishers cover almost all important areas of contemporary science. Our journals are peer reviewed and recognized by the Estonian Research Council and the Estonian Committee of Science Compentence as journals meeting international scientific standards.
- Subjects:
- Environmental Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Archeology, Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, and Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Science Periodicals Uralic languages Ecology Mathematics Archaeology Technology Chemistry Social sciences Europe -- Baltic Sea Region Engineering Humanities Geology History Physics
- Resource Type:
- e-journal
-
e-journal
In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the open license. The journal including the disciplines:
Biological Sciences
Medicine
Case Reports
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences and Education
Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
- Subjects:
- Medicine, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, and Physics
- Keywords:
- Science Periodicals Computer science Physics Mathematics Education Technology Social sciences Environmental sciences Engineering Biology Medicine Physical sciences
- Resource Type:
- e-journal
-
e-journal
In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the open license. The journal including the disciplines:
Biomedical & Life Science
Business & Economics
Chemistry & Materials Science
Computer Science & Communication
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
Medicine & Healthcare
Physics & Mathematics
Social Science & Humanities
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Economics, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, and Biology
- Keywords:
- Science Periodicals Industrial management Computer science Physics Mathematics Life sciences Economics Technology Chemistry Social sciences Environmental sciences Engineering Materials science Medicine
- Resource Type:
- e-journal
-
e-journal
Maxwell Scientific Publication Corp. operates as an independent science and technology publisher with a global reputation for quality products and services to contribute to the advancement of research knowledge. In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the open license. The journal including the disciplines:
Agricultural Sciences
Business Management & Economics Computer & Information Technology
Engineering
Food Science and Technology
Mathematics
Medicines
Social Sciences
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Economics, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, Management, Medicine, and Food Science
- Keywords:
- Statistics Science Periodicals Industrial management Food science Agriculture Fisheries Medicine Mathematics Life sciences Economics Technology Dairying Social sciences Environmental sciences Engineering Aquatic sciences Information technology Food industry trade
- Resource Type:
- e-journal
-
e-journal
In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The journal covers a various disciplines, including:
Biomedical & Life Sciences
Business & Management
Chemistry & Material Science
Computer & Communications
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
Humanities
Physics & Mathematics
Social Sciences
- Subjects:
- Management, Physics, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, and Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- Industrial management Computer science Management Physics Mathematics Social Sciences Chemistry Engineering Environmental sciences Humanities Biology
- Resource Type:
- e-journal
-
Video
《典籍裡的中國》作為總台重點文化類創新節目，聚焦中華優秀文化典籍，從中甄選最值得講述的優秀傳統文化作品，以“文化節目+戲劇+影視化”的方式，講述典籍的成書、核心思想以及流轉中的閃亮故事，讓書寫在典籍裡的文字“活”起來，展現典籍裡蘊含的中國智慧、中國精神和中國價值。
- Course related:
- CC5001 Introduction to the Study of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Civilization China History
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
Linggle is an English grammar and linguistic search engine developed by the Natural Language Processing Lab of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. It helps you check word choice, usage and collocations in order to make your writing more natural. The suggested results are from several corpora like Google Web 1T 5-gram, British National Corpus, New York Times Annotated Corpus.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Grammar
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
MOOC
Whatever your academic background, developing a set of soft skills is a key factor in your career. Having your own business and developing a corporate career will depend on the way the world looks and the speed in which decisions are made.
The MicroMasters program: Professional skills: negotiation and leadership of Tecnológico de Monterrey, is composed of professional postgraduate courses based on the Full-Time Master in Business Management. The MicroMasters program certificate will allow you to consolidate the professional skills that will launch your career such as negotiation, leadership, communication and critical thinking. Take the first steps in an exponential professional career and redefine your goals in a global, diverse and challenging environment in the leading business school in Latin America.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Communication Leadership
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
-
MOOC
In this course, we have incorporated up-to-date theory, multimedia, and peer-to-peer interaction to bring our own expertise together with the benefits of collaborative learning to create an engaging instructional environment. We have brought our own institutions' expertise in service-learning together with experienced teachers from around the world, and academic experts in the field to give you a range of perspectives and make the material as useful as possible.
- Course related:
- APSS2S09 Service leadership through serving children and families with special needs
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Student affairs services Learning Psychology of College teaching Service learning
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
-
Video
.
- Course related:
- ELC1A04 From Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter: Fantasy, Reality and Humanity
- Subjects:
- History
- Keywords:
- World history
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Band 9.0 IELTS Practice Speaking Exam (mock test) - with feedback - Saskia (2) from Sri Lanka
- Course related:
- ELC3421 English for Construction and Environmental Professionals
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Spoken English
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Vanessa Ruiz takes us on an illustrated journey of human anatomical art over the centuries, sharing captivating images that bring this visual science -- and the contemporary artists inspired by it -- to life. "Anatomical art has the power to reach far beyond the pages of a medical textbook," she says, "connecting our innermost selves with our bodies through art."
- Keywords:
- Medicine art Medical illustration
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why.
- Subjects:
- Visual Arts
- Keywords:
- New Yorker (New York N.Y. : 1925) Wit humor Caricatures cartoons
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
It's 1762 BCE. As dawn breaks in the Babylonian city of Sippar, Beltani— a priestess and businesswoman— receives an urgent visit from her brother. He makes a troubling accusation: her tavern keeper has been undermining the business Beltani relies on in her old age. Now she has just a few short hours to find out the truth. Soraya Field Fiorio details a day in the life of a Babylonian naditu.
- Subjects:
- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Middle East -- Babylonia Social conditions Women
- Resource Type:
- Video