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    curriculum, teaching methods, and learning materials; the process Texas has implemented to adopt new school textbooks is illustrated in the three articles, “Publisher Defends Controversial Mexican-American Studies Textbook, “Explained: how Texas picks its textbooks,” and “Teaching Truthiness.” These articles, in particular, focus on problems with Mexican-American Heritage, a proposed Mexican-American textbook for schools in Texas. They each express similar information over this event, such as the unique viewpoints

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    College Textbooks College Textbooks are required in nearly all college level courses. A typical student usually buys three to four textbooks for each of his or her classes. The cost of the college textbooks however, continue to increase in price which results in a variety of problems students must face. Tyler Kingkade a professional editor and journalist quote that, “College Textbook prices have increased faster than tuition, healthcare costs and housing prices, all of which have risen faster than

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    As the demand for physical copies of college textbooks is slowly decreasing, it is important that every member of our sales team is putting forth their best effort to get those extra sales. With that being said, I have thoroughly investigated the performance of one of our third year sales representatives, C. Clyde Dunaway. In the process of my investigation, I have studied his sales transactions, met with some of the professors at Northern State University and Central State University, and met some

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    1. In general, how successful was the lesson? Did the students learn what you intended for them to learn? How do you know? This lesson was moderately successful. I believe that, as a result of this lesson, the students were able to develop a decent understanding of the inferring strategy. Prior to this lesson, the students displayed a basic understanding of the strategy but after this lesson, the students demonstrated a better understanding of the lesson. The students completed a graphic organizer

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    Outline Format Title: Text-neck Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience into changing their habit of texting and posture. Preview of Main Points: Today, I will tell you what is text-neck; second why having a bad posture from texting can affect your spine and neck; and third how can you improve this everyday accustom. Introduction: according to a new calculation published in the article Surgical Technology International, Sixty pounds is roughly the weight of four adult sized- bowling

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    Textbooks are getting more expensive as the years go by, publishers add extra materials to raise prices, and new editions are published frequently, often with little to no real content change. These problems are even worse today, as the cost of books keeps rising to the point where some students will decline to take a class due to the cost of the material. A 2004 study by the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) along with the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group

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    Number of Reserve Textbooks at the Library Traci is a student in the fall semester at Tyler Junior college. She is from India and still very new to the American Education System. English is not her first language, but she is extremely grateful going to college in America and having her childhood dream come true. After all, her green card is still in process and she is unable to get a job or get any kind of funds to help her with her education. She has to pay for all her expenses out of her pocket

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    Mr. Graham: I have well heard about the great achievement of Y Combinator in the venture capital investment. The attached business proposal is about to establish a new website platform for the secondhand textbook exchange. It aims to deal with the long lasting problem of over inflation of textbook price in US. Yet currently it is also seeking the capital supporting to launch. In this report you can find out why we want to make such website, what potential such website will be given the current development

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    Example Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: The cost of college textbooks. General Purpose: To persuade. Specific Purpose: To try and make college more affordable by reducing the cost of textbooks that are ridiculously overpriced. Introduction 1. Attention-getter: How much money have you spent just this year alone on college? Hold on now, did you include all the fees? Living expenses? Your meal plan? Obvioulsy the answer is going to be in the upwards of thousands of dollars. Depressing, I know! College

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    definition is stated by Vassilakis (1997) who posits that textbooks materials are best specified and are pre- constructed by the experts of the field. He further notes that these textbooks ensure the sameness of what takes place in different classroom settings with different students and teachers. Textbooks also provide the content to be taught for teachers. Thus, no negotiation is expected to occur between teachers. Further, the textbook may determine what is going on in the classroom and that

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