Acknowledgments

This project was funded by an Open Educational Resources Grant from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University in partnership with the USU Libraries. The university’s commitment in supporting the creation of faculty authored OER materials is deeply appreciated.

I am also grateful to Stephanie Western, coordinator of the USU Libraries’ OER Program, for her enthusiastic support of the project, her flexibility, and her marshalling of an OER team to assist with the many tedious, but indispensable, details involved in producing a text such as this. Thanks also to Ashlee Davis, who picked up seamlessly where Stephanie left off after a New Year’s reshuffling of library staff roles. Kudos are due as well to the USU Libraries’ graphic designer, Shay Larsen, for the design of the book’s cover template.

Hearty thanks, too, to the USU students on the OER project team: Amanda Mackay, Savannah Rowbotham, and Preston Waddoups for copy editing and Pressbooks formatting, and to Breanna Hellewell, Megan Rasmussen, and Emory Maughan for assistance with Pressbooks formatting and image attributions.

I’d also like to express my appreciation to both Joseph Ward, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Crescencio Lopez Gonzalez, Department Head of World Languages and Cultures, for their support of my OER Grant application and for approving a semester-long sabbatical, without which this project could not have come together as quickly as it has.

And, of course, my thanks to Marta Halaczkiewicz, Director of the Intensive English Language Institute, my home niche at USU, for juggling the institute’s schedule to accommodate my course requests in accordance with teaching agreements I needed to make to fulfill the terms of my OER grant.