In the fall 2019 semester, the students of the Liberal Arts and Management Program class Black Markets: Supply and Demand explored many types of black markets and examined many perspectives related to such illicit markets. Through careful discussion and reading the students discovered four prevalent themes throughout the course: the role of government in creating the context for black market activity, elements of demand, elements of supply, and varying levels of social implications. The thirteen articles in this volume provide rich takes on these themes. We placed each article with the theme we believe it most exemplifies; however, each article conveys facts and context that relate to each theme. We believe that these themes interact and work together like strands of a rope strengthening each other. Please note that authors of a couple of the articles personally observed others engaging in illicit activities. The authors did not. And the authors have not revealed true names of the persons they observed.

ISCI547a Edition

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Welcome to the Pressbooks Network Manager's Guide! Learn how to administer a Pressbooks network by managing books and users, customizing your network home page and catalog, adjusting network settings, viewing stats, enabling integrations, and much more.

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The RoughWriter's Guide is a writing handbook designed specifically for Yavapai College students. The Guide provides students with help navigating academic writing, including all aspects of the writing process, MLA and APA formatting, and grammatical and mechanical issues.

Social Problems: Continuity and Change is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book’s subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future, provided that our nation has the wisdom and will to address them.

A collaborative project of stories written by English language learners which were interpreted and illustrated by art students in drawing classes.

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Thinking Rhetorically: Writing in Professional and Public Contexts is dedicated to introducing students to a lifelong commitment of engaging with these problems that matter. As an academic discipline, Writing Studies’ contribution to engaging with problems can be applied to all areas of study and to all types of problems because we focus on the way language itself—discourse—is created and exchanged in the service of engaging problems. Writing Studies deepens students’ rhetorical awareness of how the ongoing conversations between groups of people shape and express the problems that matter. According to Aristotle, being rhetorically aware means understanding “the best means of persuasion in any given situation.” It means understanding the deep logic that explains why an author has selected a particular genre to deliver a particular message to an audience. We all know writing is hard, but we commit to writing well because of the vital work it does in the world in helping humans preserve and extend our ability to come together. As theorist Anne Beaufort writes, “[w]hat writing expertise is ultimately concerned with is becoming engaged in a particular community of writers who dialogue across texts, argue, and build on each other’s work.”

University Physics Volume 2 is the second of a three book series that (together) covers a two- or three-semester calculus-based physics course. This text has been developed to meet the scope and sequence of most university physics courses (in terms of what Volume 2 is designed to deliver) and provides a foundation for a career in mathematics, science, or engineering. The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of physics and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and to the world around them.

This anthology is a collection of student writing from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. The class that these students wrote these essays in is unique, as are the students themselves. This class, English 093-099-101, is a multilevel English composition course that blends pre-college (093 and 099) with college writing (101). The purpose of this multilevel course is to enable students to complete more than one level of English coursework in the same quarter, thus saving them time and money and helping them to achieve their academic goals more quickly and easily. The students in this class are special, and not just because they are enrolled in different levels of English in the same classroom. They come from a wide variety of backgrounds and educational experiences. Many are currently in high school or trying to complete a high school equivalency. Others are international students. The majority are immigrants. A great many are first-generation college students. Some are in workforce retraining and find themselves in a classroom for the first time in decades. What they have in common is that almost all of them are new to the conventions of American academic essay writing.

Using Teams to Facilitate Organizational Development is a compilation of resources, information, and readings from open education resources gathered and produced in one location for the students of Middle Tennessee State University through resources from the James E. Walker Library and Embracing Equity through Open Educational Resources. Portions of this book are adapted from an edition of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, both produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA). This adaptation has reformatted the original text, and replaced some images and figures to make the resulting whole more shareable. This adaptation has not significantly altered or updated the original. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Additional portions were adapted from Organizational Change, originally adapted from Saylor Academy for the Open Textbook Network under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensor.

This book shares student stories written in an accelerated English (ENGL 093/099/101) course within general education and the Integrated Basic Education Skills and Training (I-BEST) program.

Taking the stress out of academic writing.

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The Worry Free Writer takes the stress out of academic writing.

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The Worry Free Writer is the product of over 20 years of experience in teaching composition. Dr. Palmer directs students through the Writing Process, while teaching them a simple Writing Formula that they can use to help take the stress out of writing for academic purposes.

This text is a comprehensive textbook for first year composition, including instruction for standard essays covered in ENG 101, as well as writing the literature based essays typically covered in ENG 102.

In the first part of this text, students learn how to write an analysis, an evaluation, and an argument with step by step instructions. Additionally, the book includes mini-grammar reviews of common writing errors, an introduction to MLA and APA formatting, and a guide for publishing work to the web.

In the second half of the text, students learn how to write about literature, with a step by step guide for writing a poetry analysis, a critical lens analysis of a short story, and a literary comparison between an essay (creative non-fiction) and another piece of literature.

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The Worry Free Writer is the product of over 20 years of experience in teaching composition. Dr. Palmer directs students through the Writing Process, while teaching them a simple Writing Formula that they can use to help take the stress out of writing for academic purposes.

Taking the stress out of academic writing.

Short Description:
The Worry Free Writer takes the stress out of academic writing.

Long Description:
The Worry Free Writer is the product of over 20 years of experience in teaching composition. Dr. Palmer directs students through the Writing Process, while teaching them a simple Writing Formula that they can use to help take the stress out of writing for academic purposes. In this text, students learn how to write an analysis, an evaluation, and an argument with step by step instructions. Additionally, the book includes mini-grammar reviews of common writing errors, an introduction to MLA and APA formatting, and a guide for publishing work to the web.

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This text explores the skills needed to undertake writing as a form of critical inquiry.