No Strings Attached: Friends with Benefits on a College Campus

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Sample At eleven o’clock on a Friday night in September, a popular college bar called Josie’s Grill has a line out the door and snaking down the block. Inside, men in polo shirts and women in stilettos crush against the bar, vying for the bartenders’ attention. Whitney, a first-year college stude...

Wolfman Jay and the Writing Center Gang: Humor in Listserv Community Development

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Abstract As individuals become more immersed in online discourse, the rhetorical ways in which face-to-face humor emerges as an important part of the written lexicon remain an important facet of effective communication. Social media, listservs, blogs, email, and collaborative virtual environments...

Teambuilding from the Toy Aisle

Author(s): Michelle Cummings, Michelle Cummings, MATTHEW BRODA, TREVOR DUNLAP

Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself standing in the toy aisle and reimagining a game or item on the shelf for your trainer ‘bag of tricks.’ Did you raise your hand? Then this book is for you! It’s time to open grandma’s game closet and re-see some of the many toy and game classics (and new...

Currents in Communication

Author(s): Elliot King

Currents in Communication serves as a foundational text for students who plan to major in communication for their undergraduate education. It is one of the first textbooks to integrate an in-depth exploration of mass communication with an introduction to interpersonal communication and business comm...

Applied Sports Law with Cases & Illustrations for Sports Business Managers

Author(s): Peter Omondi-Ochieng

Applied Sports Law with Cases & Illustrations for Sports Business Managers is a hands-on textbook designed to be a user-friendly go-to source for both students, practitioners, and professors regarding the applications of Law to Sports Business entities as universities, professional teams, and the co...

Explore. Prepare. Succeed.

Author(s): UNC WILMINGTON

Why are you here, at this institution, in this class? As educators and students we are quick to think about the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of the college experience. What is general education? How can I get these requirements completed? What do I do with myself in this new environment? While all important...

Ways of Knowing: The First-Year Seminar Anthology, 7e

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Connecting with Consumers

Author(s): Matthew A. Gilbert

According to management consultant, author, and educator Peter Drucker “knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” Connecting with Consumers shares ten case studies in five sections about organizations in various industries. Each case starts with an overview...

The Secret of the Sea

Author(s): Donna Stevenson

During the summer of her thirteenth birthday, Arie McGinnis discovers three things that change her world and the way she sees herself; her long-missing mom isn't human; Dad has a girlfriend and wants to move to Indiana, taking Arie away from the ocean, her friends, and everything she loves; and chil...

Caring for Yourself is Caring for Your Child: Helping Parents of Children with Eating Disorders Seek Health Care for Themselves

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Abstract It is not always easy to change health behaviors. Just imagine how many times you have been told to do something “good” for your health, and you have ignored the message. The purpose of the “Caring for Yourself Is Caring for Your Child” case study is to demonstrate that formative researc...