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SPARKPLUG
Sparkplug is designed to help students research communication issues in today's culture.

The pdf provides bibliographies on various communication topics, up-to-date lists of articles

from communication journals, and clusters of critical references in in-text citations from

academic books on communication. Registered students can submit assignments that

are designed to familiarize them with the academic venues for research. Assignments

are evaluated on a pass/fail scale (a pass is a 95% or above) or, if requested, on a letter

grading scale (A, B, C, or D) based on a score from 0-to-20 points. Instructors can receive

a list of the grades. Printed book format, 8x5 inches, 76 pp. ISBN 9781935845218. Edited by P. H. Mims.

Click to see pp. 1-15, 28-35, 62-66

FIREFLY

Firefly is designed to help students develop a sense of literary style. In each of Firefly's

three chapters, models are provided for students to imitate. These models include poems

from famous poets, prose passages from literary authors known for a distinct style, and short

genre pieces. Registered students are asked to send in poems and prose pieces imitating

models of their choice. Submissions receive two sets of evaluations: one for meeting the

assignments' requirements and one for artistic merit. The best work is posted in the online

publication Pinwheel. Upon request, instructors can receive a list of the evaluations. Printed

book format, 8x5 inches, 150 pp. ISBN 9781935845089. Edited by OLP Staff Writers. Click to see pp. 1-25

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LAUREL LEAF

Written as a self tutorial, Laurel Leaf is a poetry-instruction packet containing 45 terms of

scansion and literary analysis. Each term has its own page for explanation and and

examples. Besides the terms, this pdf includes a collection of over 70 best-loved lyric

poems in American and British literature. Students can receive up to three term tests,

which are graded on a scale from 1 to 10 and assigned a percentage score. Instructors

can receive a list of the grades. Students can also submit creative work for evaluation.

The best of such work is posted in the online publication Pinwheel. Printed book format,

8x5 inches, 103 pp. ISBN 9780981680361. Edited by Kelly Renee Fergusson. Click to see pp. 1-15, 52-60

Written as a self-tutorial, Stingray is designed to help students learn to summarize,

paraphrase, and quote published academic work. Emphasis is also placed on topic

formation, thesis declaration, and argumentative technique to form a niche for students'

own voices in the existing critical conversations. Both MLA and APA models for in-text

citation and bibliographic entries are provided. Students can take up to three standard

or advanced tests (in MLA, APA, or a mix of both) covering summary, paraphrasing,

quotation mechanics (brackets and ellipses), and documentation. Instructors can receive

a list of the grades. Print book format, 8x5 inches, 200 pp. NOTE: This book can be ordered with various appendices, and the expanded book carries a red, rosin cover. ISBN 9780981680330. Written by Linda

Kayleese Hughes. Click to see pp. 1-12, 19-22, 40-44, 141-145

Written as a self-tutorial, Swordfish is a six-chapter manual on sentence-boundary

mechanics. While students learn parts-of-speech along the way, the main goal is

simply to teach students how to recognize fragments, comma splices, and fused

sentences in order to eliminate them from their writing. Swordfish begins at the basic

step of recognizing main verbs, and then provided formulas for finding the elements

of five sentence patterns. Students can take up to three standard or advanced cumulative

tests, which are graded on a scale from 1-to-10 or 1-to-20 and assigned a percentage

score. Instructors can receive a list of the grades. Printed book format, 8x5 inches 200 pp. Written by Kate

Freeland. ISBN 9780981680323. Click to see pp. 1-6, 59-64, 141-144, 167-172

CALLIGRAPH

Written as a self-tutorial, Calligraph leads students in their own composition of a short story.

The pdf contains ten short stories by recognized masters. The students read the stories,

document their similarities in form and content, and then write a short story imitating these

qualities. Students are asked to complete up to five assignments that are to be submitted to

the editors of the Calligraph pdf for evaluation and analysis. The best stories will be published

in Pinwheel, Open Latch Publication’s annual serial dedicated to showcasing student creativity.

Printed book format, 11x8.5 inches, 140 pp. ISBN 9781935845096. Edited by Henson Marebelle. Click to see pp. 1-15

MAKING THE CASE

Making the Case presents the student with excerpts from literature in which authors reach a conclusion by following signs and evidences gathered from their environment or from the protagonist's logic. Students are asked to examine the threads of reasoning in order to determine whether the conclusions reached are sound, valid, or fallacious. Two critical articles are included so that students can compare anecdotal evidence with evidence depending upon documentation. Printed book format, 8x5.5 inches, 160 pp. ISBN 9781935845126. Edited by Penelope Houston.

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TEXTS & CULTURES

Texts & Cultures offers a diverse collection of literary material that showcases the lineaments of people in their cultures (real or fictionally representative). Selections include excerpts from St. Augustine's Confessions, Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, Dante's Inferno, Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, Johnson's Rasselas, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, and Francis Parkman Jr.'s The Oregon Trail. This is a TNT book, or a "Team Notes Text." Students write introductions to the authors or the selections, and are provided a unique access code to submit work to the TNT Editors. The editors compile the work into a pdf note pack and email it to all the students who have submitted work. Printed book format, 8x5.5 inches, 550 pp. ISBN 9781935845249. Edited by Martin Camacho Vegas.

Soft Evidence lets students examine the type of evidence and persuasive devices skilled orators

can offer their audiences. This spoken case involves non-documented data, enthymemic reasoning, and rhetorical devices suitable for the nonce. The text contains twenty-seven famous orations. Speakers include Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth, Frederic Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Plato, Jonathan Edwards, T. Roosevelt, and Twain. This is a TNT book, or a "Team Notes Text." Students write introductions to the authors or the selections, and are provided a unique access code to submit work to the TNT Editors. The editors compile the work into a pdf note pack and email it to all the students who have submitted work. Printed book format, 8x5.5 inches, 150 pp. ISBN 9781935845119. Edited by Anita Renicker Malley.

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PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC

Propositional Logic starts with the nature of the proposition and stops short of a full-fledged treatment of symbolic logic. Main areas of treatment include the Aristotelian Square of Opposition, syllogistic reasoning (categorical, disjunctive, and hypothetical), validity, truth, soundness, presuppositional knowledge, and propositional translation. Famous essays on logic make up the second section of the book. This is a TNT book, or a "Team Notes Text." Students write definitions to logical fallacies and collect examples of fallacies found in everyday media , and are provided a unique access code to submit work to the TNT Editors. The editors compile the work into a pdf note pack and email it to all the students who have submitted work. Printed book format, 8x5.5 inches, 90 pp. ISBN 9781935845256. Written by Jennifer Lynn Guelph.

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THE EXAMINED LIFE LIVED WELL

The Examined Life Lived Well provides unglossed primary material from Plato to Locke. The focus is on having the student first ask central questions of epistemology, axiology, and ontology and then read excerpts of what great minds have concluded on these subjects. This book comes with a CD containing additional texts not found in the book in order to give the student a larger picture of the philosophical and literary landscape from which the author wrote. Printed book format, 8x5.5 inches, 550 pp. ISBN 9781935845263. Edited by Solomon John.

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Citation & Documentation helps students learn to summarize, paraphrase, and quote published academic work. Chapters focus on paraphrasing skills, quotation mechanics, and formal documentation. Both MLA and APA models for in-text citation and bibliographic entries are included. A tear-out research log is provided so that a student can track the progress of his or her research work from the formation of the topic, through the reading stages, note taking, and proposal development, to the final stages of synopsis and arrangement. Printed book format, 8x5 inches, 350 pp. ISBN 9781935845003. Written by Caesar Gonzalez.

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