What’s in LaunchPad for Models for Writers, 13th Edition?

LaunchPad for Models for Writers, 13th Edition is packed with digital content that works with your textbook to help you sharpen your ability to read analytically and write successfully in first-year composition and in your coursework across campus. Whether your instructor assigns the resources in LaunchPad or encourages you to work with the material at your own pace, we’re confident that LaunchPad will help you develop the skills you need to succeed in college and beyond. For help using LaunchPad, please join the College Students Support Community or contact Tech Support. You can find Tech Support contact information by clicking “Help” in the upper right corner of your screen.

E-book

In the e-book you’ll find all the great content and activities from the printed book, including:

• Brief, engaging readings that provide outstanding models. Most of the seventy professional selections and all seven of the sample student essays are similar in length (two to four pages) to the essays students will write themselves. Each piece of writing clearly illustrates a basic rhetorical element, principle, or pattern.
• Introductory chapters on reading and writing, including tutorials on the writing process and making a thesis.
• An easy-to-follow rhetorical organization. Each chapter is devoted to a particular element or pattern important to college writing.
• Practical instruction on working with sources in Chapters 1, 10, and 23.
• Targeted instruction on sentence grammar in Chapter 24.

Interactive content and tutorials

Comprehension quizzes on every reading selection in the book help you to assess your reading and understanding. For each reading, LaunchPad also contains abundant study materials to help students improve their writing, including:

• Thinking Critically about This Reading questions that encourage students to consider the writer's assumptions, make connections, and explore the broader implications of the selection.
• Questions for Study and Discussion that focus on the author's purpose and the particular strategy that the author used to achieve that purpose.
• At least two Suggested Writing Assignments for each essay, which encourage students to use the reading selection as a direct model.

In addition, you’ll find helpful tutorials on topics such as reading critically, working with and citing sources, and using digital writing tools.

LearningCurve

Developed in light of the latest advances in learning research, LearningCurve is a game-like adaptive quizzing program that covers topics from grammar and usage to reading critically and argument. The less you know about a topic, the more LearningCurve focuses on it, and the better you do, the more challenging the questions become, helping you concentrate on exactly what you need to learn.