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Courses<\/h1>\r\n\"ThisReading Texts: An Interactive Workshop<\/a> (CC BY-NC-SA)\r\n\r\nReading Texts: An Interactive Workshop guides you through a series of videos and exercises to help you read efficiently and purposefully. The workshop as a part of the Academic Skills Workshop series developed by the KPU Learning Centres.\r\n

Supplemental Materials<\/h1>\r\nIndependent Research Guide<\/a> (CC BY-NC-SA)\r\n\r\nThis guide to independent research is intended to help students and scholars who lack institutional support, or anyone who might otherwise be looking for some guidance into how to conduct research. It is aimed primarily at philosophers, although several of the points outlined below may be more broadly applicable. The guide is split into three main sections: Finding academic material, critically engaging with texts, and presenting your research.\r\n

Textbooks<\/h1>\r\nBridges: United States Academia for First-Generation and International College Students<\/a> (CC BY)\r\n\r\nBridges<\/em> introduces students to a wide range of concepts, institutions, histories, and artifacts of United States college and university life. After discussing these items in easy-to-scan, concise, nuance-free prose, this textbook then offers useful lists, templates for writing and speaking in different discourses and situations, thought-provoking questions and activities for self-study and for classroom work, and pertinent hyperlinks for further information. Bridges<\/em> is designed to help first-generation, first-year, English language learners, and\/or culturally unfamiliarized students more fully and successfully explore their educational environments.\r\n\r\nChoosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research<\/a> (CC BY )\r\n\r\nEngaging graphics, compelling examples, and easy-to-understand explanations make Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, your most valuable, open access resource for completing research-based writing assignments and projects.\r\n\r\nCollege Success Reading and Learning Objectives<\/a> (CC BY)\r\n\r\nStudents first discover what they want from their education, then build a plan to get there. This content takes students through the steps to successfully navigate their journey in higher education. Topics include planning for success, choosing a career path, setting and attaining goals, understanding financial management, developing critical thinking skills, making healthy choices, using effective communication, managing time, developing learning strategies, developing meaningful relationships.\r\n\r\nA Different Road to College:\u00a0A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students<\/a> (CC BY)\r\n\r\nThis book is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college in the United States. 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.\r\n\r\n\"ThisLibrary Skills for 2nd Year Biological Sciences<\/a> (CC BY)\r\n
\r\n\r\nThis tutorial covers the library skills required for students in 200-level Biological Sciences courses with these objectives:\r\n