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Welcome to the LaunchPad Solo for The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, Seventh Edition.

LaunchPad Solo for The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, Seventh Edition is packed with digital content designed to work in tandem with your textbook to help you sharpen your critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Whether your instructor assigns the resources in LaunchPad Solo or encourages you to work with the material at your own pace, we’re confident that LaunchPad Solo will help you develop the reading and writing skills you need to succeed. LaunchPad Solo for The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, Seventh Edition:

Get the most out of your reading for class.

Visit the critical reading tutorials to reflect on active reading skills or see how audience and purpose works in different visual texts.

Cite sources with confidence.

Use the working with sources tutorials to learn which types of sources you need to acknowledge in your writing and watch videos on how to build common citations in MLA and APA styles.

Use photographs in your essay, develop a podcast, or design an effective presentation.

Digital writing tutorials will walk you through decisions related to creating a range of digital texts.

Practice and develop your writing and grammar skills.

LearningCurve is adaptive game-like quizzing that helps you focus on the writing and grammar skills you need the most help with. When you get a question wrong, feedback tells you why and links you to additional instruction.

Explore the themes of your course through video, comics, and digital texts.

E-readings allow you to broaden your critical reading skills practice and help you master digital literacy skills. Use them to brainstorm essay topics or as inspiration for your own digital compositions!

See model essays from students just like you.

Additional student writing selections show you example essays from other students, allowing you to explore options for composing in each genre and make smarter writing choices.