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The Writer's Mindset 1e
The Writer's Mindset 1e was created to help students develop a writer's mindset—the rhetorical skills to read critically, synthesize sources and write with audiences in mind. By using incremental steps that move from literal thinking to analytical and critical understanding, The Writer's Mindset makes the development of college-level writing capabilities possible for all. It includes MLA 9e updates.
Learn MoreThe McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life 5e
Guided by outcomes, this goals-based approach to writing prioritizes the transfer of knowledge and skills that students can use in settings other than first-year composition.
Learn MoreConnect Online Access for Connect Composition Essentials
In one affordable platform with four years of access, this new release of Connect Composition Essentials provides students, instructors, and program administrators with a comprehensive and flexible resource designed to help students meet outcomes in first-year composition courses.
Learn MoreChannell/Crusius Engaging Questions: A Guide to Writing 3e
Engaging Questions, now in its third edition, emphasizes interaction and critical thinking, transforming passive learners into active learners empowered to ask their own questions and pursue those questions wherever they lead.
Learn MoreConnect® for Composition
Helping students prepare for lecture
SmartBook with Learning Resources - the first and only adaptive reading and study experience designed to change the way students read and master key course concepts. As a student engages with SmartBook, the program creates a personalized learning path by highlighting the most impactful concepts the student needs to learn at that moment in time and delivering learning resources—videos, animations, and other interactivities. These rich, dynamic resources help students learn the material, retain more knowledge, and get better grades.
Helping students engage in class
Tutorials and Animations - within Connect, instructors can choose from a variety of questions, many of which are interactive or include a tutorial or animation to help students grasp more difficult concepts within each chapter. Instructors can also use the tutorials and animations during class time or one-on-one with students as an extra resource
Helping students connect the dots
Relevancy Modules demonstrate the connections between biological content and topics that are of interest to your students. These modules are available as a supplementary eBook within Connect and may be assigned by the instructor for use in a variety of ways in the classroom. Examples of topics covered include fermentation of beer, cancer biology, weed evolution, antibiotic resistance, mega crops, biology of weight gain, and climate change.