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	<title>The Writing College Textbook Supplements Blog &#187; College Students</title>
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	<description>Instructor Manuals &#124; Test Questions &#124; Student Study Guides &#124; Student Companion Sites &#124; Lecture Outlines &#124; PowerPoint Presentations &#124; Internet Exercises &#124; Article Exercises &#124; Lab Manuals &#124; Copyediting &#124; Winning High-Paying Assignments</description>
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		<title>Catching Plagiarizing College Applicants</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/06/23/catching-plagiarizing-college-applicants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plagiarism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a special interest in catching cheaters, probably because I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time over the last 18 years writing test questions and other exercises that college students answer and get graded on, and also because I had to deal with cheating a few times when I taught political science courses at Butte [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can College Students Go ONE DAY Without Cell Phones And Social Media?</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/04/06/can-college-students-go-one-day-without-cell-phones-and-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find out in this this article: &#8220;Toughest college test: No cell phone, no Facebook.&#8221; (Originally got there from Inside Higher Ed.) I think people need more balance in their lives with fewer inputs, especially of the digital kind. I try to take at least one computer-free day a week, but it&#8217;s not always easy. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Law: All College Textbooks Must Have E-Book Versions by 2020</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/01/27/california-law-all-college-textbooks-must-have-e-book-versions-by-2020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Regulation of Textbook Publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing College Textbook Supplements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Senate Bill 48]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/?p=738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California just passed a law that requires textbook publishers to provide e-book versions of all college textbooks by 2020. Here&#8217;s the relevant passage from California State Senate Bill 48: This bill would require that publishers of textbooks offered for sale at a public or a private postsecondary institution of education make the textbooks available, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Textbooks: How Students Can Save Money</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/01/20/college-textbooks-how-students-can-save-money/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/01/20/college-textbooks-how-students-can-save-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Wiley and Sons College Textbook Publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearson Education College Textbook Publishing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cengage Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college teachers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/?p=733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the important functions of this blog is following major trends in the college textbook publishing industry. There&#8217;s been a strong move toward providing multiple formats of textbooks for college students, especially digital e-book versions. Ideally, students can save money while publishers continue to make good profits. The Association of American Publishers recently issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Students and Multi-Tasking: Can They Listen to You and Take Notes at the Same Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing College Textbook Ancillaries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[quantum mechanics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of Psyblog, a well-trafficed blog from the United Kingdom that examines recent research findings from psychology. A while back I read this interesting post about attention and multitasking: Every day we we are bombarded with perceptions, ideas and emotions and what we choose to pay attention to shapes our lives, it makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cengage Learning to Rent College Textbooks</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/08/20/cengage-learning-to-rent-college-textbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/08/20/cengage-learning-to-rent-college-textbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cengage Learning College Textbook Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major College Textbook Publishers-Publishing Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McGraw-Hill College Textbook Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wadsworth Textbook Publishing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/?p=438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cengage Learning, one of the largest publishers of college textbooks, has decided to start renting textbooks to college students at 40-70% of the new price. College students typically aren&#8217;t happy about shelling out the 100-bucks-plus for the typical textbook, so they frequently buy used books at the college bookstore. Cengage Learning says that textbook authors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Presents the American Graduation Initiative to Help Community Colleges</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/07/14/president-obama-presents-the-american-graduation-initiative-to-help-community-colleges/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/07/14/president-obama-presents-the-american-graduation-initiative-to-help-community-colleges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community College Instructors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Graduation Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenge grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a July 14th speech at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, President Obama discussed the broad outlines of the American Graduation Initiative, his administration&#8217;s plan to reinvigorate community colleges. The main points: Challenge grants for community colleges Modernization of community college infrastructure Open online courses Funds for scholarships Funds to help community colleges teach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Administration&#8217;s Plans to Help the Country&#8217;s Community Colleges</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/07/13/the-obama-administrations-plans-to-help-the-countrys-community-colleges/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/07/13/the-obama-administrations-plans-to-help-the-countrys-community-colleges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Colleges]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time magazine just put out a good article on the critical role community colleges play in America&#8217;s higher education system and how they are important for economic growth. The piece focuses on the Obama administration&#8217;s strong push to help community colleges. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the article: The President hasn&#8217;t forgotten about the 30 or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Colleges Capping Enrollments and Eliminating Classes and Jobs Just When More Students Need Retraining</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/07/06/community-colleges-capping-enrollments-and-eliminating-classes-and-jobs-just-when-more-students-need-retraining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community College Instructors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Texas Community College Teachers Association blog: State and local governments are in serious financial trouble, and not just in California. The current recession is also having a disastrous effect upon the nation&#8217;s community colleges, according to a recent article in the Washington Post (registration). It is axiomatic that, if unemployment rises, so does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Online College Instruction More Effective than In-Class Instruction?</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/06/29/online-college-instruction-more-effective-than-in-class-instruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online classes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online courses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a lot of friends who teach online college courses, so I&#8217;ve started paying attention to how online instruction affects both students and instructors. The Inside Higher Ed website just posted an article about the effectiveness of online education versus traditional face-to-face learning in the classroom. Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction [...]]]></description>
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