Handbook for Mindful Technical Writing: A Practical Guide for University Students and Professionals
subject: Technical Writing
description: Welcome to the Handbook for Mindful Technical Writing: A Practical Guide for University Students and Professionals. This open textbook was developed to make advanced writing instruction more accessible, practical, and adaptable for a wide range of learners and professionals. The book reduces overall cognitive load by presenting structured writing exercises, modular chapters, and a highly accessible conversational tone. It functions perfectly as an agile training tool for corporate professionals or as a cost-free syllabus backbone for university instructors.
creator: Dawn Atkinson, Stacey Corbitt
publisher: Montana Technological University
date: 2026
rights: This resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

Introduction to Technical Writing: A Rhetorical Approach
subject: Technical Writing
description: Introduction to Technical Writing: A Rhetorical Approach is an eTextbook designed to help students learn important basic skills in technical writing and technical communication. The textbook focuses on developing practical knowledge by showing students how to apply rhetorical concepts to the process of technical writing. Each chapter provides students an in-depth look at a required skill for technical writing and examines it through a writing assignment, student sample, and rubric. This eTextbook provides images and videos to help make the concepts come alive for both students and new instructors of technical writing.
creator: Moe Folk
publisher: The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks
date: 2025
rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis
subject: Study Skills and Research Methods
description: In Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis, Stephen B. Vardeman and J. Marcus Jobe stress the practical over the theoretical. Step by step, students get real engineering data and scenario examples along with chapter-long case studies that illustrate concepts in realistic, thoroughly detailed situations. This approach encourages students to work through the material by carrying out data collection and analysis projects from problem formulation through the preparation of professional technical reports—just as if they were on the job.
creator: Stephen B. Vardeman, J. Marcus Jobe
publisher: Iowa State University Digital Press
date: 2023
rights: © 2001 Stephen B. Vardeman and J. Marcus Jobe. Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis is available under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International license. You may share and adapt the material, so long as you provide appropriate credit to the original authors, do not use the material for commercial purposes, and share any adaptations or remixes under the same license.
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

CHM 151: Chemistry Around Us
subject: Chemistry
description: Chemistry Around Us is a chemistry course designed for non-majors to explore the basics of chemistry and how it relates to the world around us, particularly in the context of climate change, water chemistry, and nuclear chemistry.
creator: Erin Avram
publisher: LibreTexts
date: 2026
rights: This resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

Physical Chemistry
subject: Physical Chemistry
description: This physical chemistry textbook by Yingbin Ge is an open-access resource meticulously crafted for undergraduate students in chemistry, biochemistry, and related STEM fields. The text strikes a precise balance between conceptual clarity and mathematical rigor, ensuring students build a deep understanding of thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum chemistry, and statistical mechanics. What sets this text apart is its student-centered pedagogy. Rather than focusing on formalism alone, Ge guides learners through step-by-step derivations that prioritize physical meaning. By explicitly addressing common misconceptions and integrating worked examples, the book transforms complex theory into manageable insights. Its modular structure offers instructors the flexibility to adapt the material to various course sequences, while the accompanying suite of lecture and tutorial videos makes it a comprehensive, accessible solution for the modern classroom.
creator: Yingbin Ge
publisher: Central Washington University
date: 2026
rights: This resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

Signals and Systems, Edition 6.0
subject: Electrical, Electronics and Signal Processing
description: This textbook covers continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems at an introductory level appropriate for undergraduate students. This textbook has been used by the author to teach a number of undergraduate courses on signals and systems, and the student feedback on this textbook has been extremely positive. Therefore, in order that other students may benefit from this textbook, the author has decided to make it publically available under an open-access license.
creator: Michael D. Adams
publisher: Self-publishing
date: 2024
rights: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

College Physics for AP® Courses, 2nd Edition
subject: Physics
description: College Physics for AP® Courses 2e is designed to engage students in their exploration of physics and help them apply these concepts to the Advanced Placement® test. Because physics is integral to modern technology and other sciences, the book also includes content that goes beyond the scope of the AP® course to further student understanding. The AP® Connection in each chapter directs students to the material they should focus on for the AP® exam, and what content — although interesting — is not necessarily part of the AP® curriculum. This book is Learning List-approved for AP® Physics courses and meets the scope and sequence for these courses.
creator: Gregg Wolfe, Liza Pujji, Irina Lyublinskaya, Douglas Ingram, Erika Gasper, John Stoke, Julie Kretchman, David Anderson, Nathan Czuba, Sudhi Oberoi
publisher: OpenStax
date: 2022
rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

Organic Chemistry, 10th Edition
subject: Organic Chemistry
description: John McMurry’s Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition is a premier, openly licensed textbook tailored for a two-semester, functional group-based course. This updated edition maintains the author's trademark clarity while integrating contemporary scientific discoveries, fresh applications, revised artwork, and new practice problems. Published under an open license as a tribute to the author's late son, Peter McMurry, the text includes comprehensive instructor and student resources, a detailed table of contents, and a summary of key changes available online.
creator: John McMurry
publisher: OpenStax
date: 2023
rights: This resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

Chemistry: Atoms First, 2nd Edition
subject: Applied Chemistry
description: Chemistry: Atoms First 2e is a peer-reviewed, openly licensed introductory textbook produced through a collaborative publishing partnership between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut and UConn Undergraduate Student Government Association. This text is an atoms-first adaptation of OpenStax's Chemistry 2e. The intention of “atoms-first” involves a few basic principles: first, it introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach, and it threads these themes through subsequent chapters. This approach may be chosen as a way to delay the introduction of material such as stoichiometry that students traditionally find abstract and difficult, thereby allowing students time to acclimate their study skills to chemistry. Additionally, it gives students a basis for understanding the application of quantitative principles to the chemistry that underlies the entire course. It also aims to center the study of chemistry on the atomic foundation that many will expand upon in a later course covering organic chemistry, easing that transition when the time arrives. The second edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Substantial improvements have been made in the figures, illustrations, and example exercises that support the text narrative.
creator: Paul Flowers, Klaus Theopold, William R. Robinson, Richard Langley, William R. Robinson
publisher: OpenStax
date: 2019
rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text

Chemistry, 2nd Edition
subject: General Chemistry
description: Chemistry 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning. The second edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Substantial improvements have been made in the figures, illustrations, and example exercises that support the text narrative. Changes made in Chemistry 2e are described in the preface to help instructors transition to the second edition.
creator: Paul Flowers, Klaus Theopold, William R. Robinson, Richard Langley, William R. Robinson
publisher: OpenStax
date: 2019
rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
format: PDF
language: English
type: Text