What’s in LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks?
Setting Up and Customizing Your LaunchPad Course
Types of Diagnostic and Summative Assessment Available in LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks
Creating and Using Video Assignments
Creating and Using Other LaunchPad Assignment Types
Top Twenty Editing Quiz 1: “Thinking Globally by Eating Locally”
Top Twenty Editing Quiz 2: “Plagiarism in the Age of the Internet”
Exercise: Top twenty most common errors (autoscored)
Top Twenty Videos
Top Twenty Video: Wrong word
Top Twenty Video: Missing comma after an introductory element
Top Twenty Video: Incomplete or missing documentation
Top Twenty Video: Vague pronoun reference
Top Twenty Video: Spelling
Top Twenty Video: Mechanical error with a quotation
op Twenty Video: Unnecessary Comma
Top Twenty Video: Unnecessary or missing capitalization
Top Twenty Video: Missing word
Top Twenty Video: Faulty sentence structure
Top Twenty Video: Missing comma with a nonrestrictive element
Top Twenty Video: Unnecessary shift in verb tense
op Twenty Video: Missing Comma in a Compound Sentence
Top Twenty Video: Unnecessary or missing apostrophe
Top Twenty Video: Fused (run-on) sentence
Top Twenty Video: Comma splice
Top Twenty Video: Lack of pronoun-antecedent agreement
Top Twenty Video: Poorly integrated quotation
Top Twenty Video: Unnecessary or missing hyphen
Top Twenty Video: Sentence fragment
Video Prompt: Lessons from informal writing
Video Prompt: Something to learn from each other
Exercise: Reflecting on your informal writing
Storyboards on rhetorical situations
Video Prompt: Developing a sense of audience
Video Prompt: Pay attention to what you're interested in
Exercise: Reflecting on the decision to write
Exercise: Writing for different audiences
Exercise: Considering academic genres
Storyboards on working thesis
Video Prompt: Brain mapping
Video Prompt: Getting ideas from social media
Video Prompt: This will take longer than I thought
Video Prompt: Writing processes
Exercise: Evaluating a working thesis
Student Writing: Early draft (Emily Lesk)
Video Prompt: Filling in the gaps (organizing)
Video Prompt: It's hard to delete things (drafting)
Video Prompt: You just have to start (drafting)
Storyboard on being a peer reviewer
Storyboard on getting help from peer reviewers
Storyboards on revising and editing
Practice Peer Review
Video Prompt: Lessons from being a peer reviewer
Video Prompt: Lessons from peer review
Video Prompt: Revision happens
Student Writing: Final draft (Emily Lesk)
Exercise: Creating an editing checklist
Student Writing: Reflective blog post (Thanh Nguyen)
Video Prompt: Working with other people
Storyboards on reading critically
Exercise: Previewing a text
Student Writing: Analysis of an assigned reading (Fernando Sanchez)
Student Writing: Analysis of a visual text
Student Writing: Annotations on an assigned reading (Fernando Sanchez and Sarah Lum)
Student Writing: Critical analysis of graphic literature (Shuqiao Song)
Student Writing: Preview notes for an assigned reading (Fernando Sanchez and Sarah Lum)
Student Writing: Summary of an assigned reading (Sarah Lum)
Student Writing: Rhetorical analysis (Milena Ateyea)
Student Writing: Argument project (Benjy Mercer-Golden)
Video Prompt: Facing a challenging argument
Video Prompt: Researching something exciting
Student Writing: Annotated bibliography (Tony Chan)
Student Writing: Reflective annotated bibliography (Nandita Sriram)
Storyboards on synthesis
Exercise: Integrating sources (MLA) 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Integrating sources (MLA) 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Integrating sources (APA) 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Integrating sources (APA) 2 (autoscored)
Student Writing: Synthesis project (Caroline Warner)
Exercise: Recognizing common knowledge 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Recognizing common knowledge 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding plagiarism (MLA) 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding plagiarism (MLA) 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding plagiarism (APA) 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding plagiarism (APA) 2 (autoscored)
Video Prompt: When to stop researching
Student Writing: Presentation (Shuqiao Song)
Video Prompt: If I were in the audience
Video Prompt: Looking for the essential points (turning essay into media presentation)
Video Prompt: Presentation is performance
Video Prompt: You want them to hear you
Video Prompt: Improving with practice
Student Writing: Close reading of poetry (Bonnie Sillay)
Student Writing: Film analysis (Amrit Rao)
Student Writing: Literature review in psychology (Tawnya Redding)
Student Writing: Lab report in chemistry (Allyson Goldberg)
Student Writing: Research proposal (Tara Gupta)
Student Writing: Business case analysis (Michelle Abbott)
Student Writing: Business memo (Michelle Abbott and Carina Abernathy)
Student Writing: Cover letter or letter of inquiry (Nastassia Lopez)
Student Writing: Résumés (Megan Lange)
Video Prompt: Writing for the real world
Reflective portfolio cover letter (James Kung)
Sample Writing: Fundraising Web page (Justin Dart)
Sample Writing: Newsletter
Sample Writing: Online report
Sample Writing: Pitch package (Deborah Jane and Jamie Burke)
Sample Writing: Web comic (Zack Karas)
Video Prompt: Correctness in context
Exercise: Appropriate language (autoscored)
Exercise: Analyzing informal and formal word choice
Exercise: Revising inconsistent formality
Exercise: Choosing words with appropriate denotation
Exercise: Choosing synonyms
Exercise: Revising to make language concrete
Exercise: Checking spelling and pronunciation
Exercise: Checking etymology
Exercise: Using contextual clues
Exercise: Common misspellings 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Common misspellings 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Common misspellings 3 (autoscored)
Exercise: Homonyms (autoscored)
Exercise: Finding errors missed by a spell checker
Exercise: Using homonyms
Student Writing: MLA-style research project (David Craig)
Student Writing: APA-style research project (Martha Bell)
Student Writing: Chicago-style research project (Amanda Rinder)
Student Writing: CSE-style literature review (Joanna Hays)
Exercise: Identifying verbs, nouns, and pronouns (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying conjunctions and prepositions (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying subjects and predicates (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying subjects (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying predicates (autoscored)
Exercise: Types of phrases (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying dependent clauses (autoscored)
Exercise: Classifying sentence types (autoscored)
Exercise: Clauses and sentences (autoscored)
Exercise: Nouns and noun phrases (autoscored)
Exercise: Articles (autoscored)
Exercise: Regular and irregular verbs (autoscored)
Exercise: Verbs and verb phrases (autoscored)
Exercise: Writing the past tense or past participle of verbs
Exercise: Choosing appropriate forms of commonly confused verbs
Exercise: Choosing correct verb forms
Exercise: Revising for appropriate subjunctive verb forms
Exercise: Subject-verb agreement 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Subject-verb agreement 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Subject-verb agreement 3 (autoscored)
Exercise: Clear pronoun reference (autoscored) DELETED
Exercise: Choosing verb forms that agree with subjects
Exercise: Revising for subject-verb agreement
Exercise: Pronoun case (autoscored)
Exercise: Pronoun-antecedent agreement (autoscored)
Exercise: Clear pronoun reference (autoscored)
Exercise: Choosing who, whoever, whom, or whomever
Exercise: Identifying appropriate pronouns
Exercise: Revising pronouns
Exercise: Revising to clarify pronoun reference
Exercise: Revising a paragraph to clarify pronoun reference
Exercise: Adjectives and adverbs (autoscored)
Exercise: Adjectives and adverbs 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Comparatives and superlatives (autoscored)
Exercise: Revising adjectives and adverbs
Exercise: Revising for modifier use
Exercise: Two-word verbs (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying incorrect prepositions (autoscored)
Exercise: Revising to include prepositions
Exercise: Using two-word verbs correctly
Exercise: Unnecessary shifts (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding illogical shifts in verb tense (autoscored)
Exercise: Revising to eliminate unnecessary shifts
Exercise: Parallelism (autoscored)
Exercise: Using parallel words and phrases
Exercise: Revising for errors in parallelism
Exercise: Comma splices and fused sentences (autoscored)
Exercise: Revising to correct comma splices and fused sentences
Exercise: Evaluating methods for correcting comma splices
Exercise: Sentence fragments (autoscored)
Exercise: Revising sentence fragments
Exercise: Revising sentence fragments 2
Exercise: Misplaced modifiers 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Misplaced modifiers 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Disruptive modifiers (autoscored)
Exercise: Dangling modifiers (autoscored)
Exercise: Moving misplaced modifiers for clarity
Exercise: Revising limiting and squinting modifiers
Exercise: Revising disruptive modifiers
Exercise: Revising dangling phrases
Exercise: Misplaced modifiers 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Misplaced modifiers 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Revising sentence structure for consistency
Exercise: Revising for completeness and consistency
Exercise: Conciseness (autoscored)
Exercise: Rewriting sentences using the active voice
Exercise: Revising for conciseness
Exercise: Emphasizing main ideas (autoscored)
Exercise: Subordination (autoscored)
Exercise: Coordinating ideas with semicolons and conjunctive adverbs (autoscored)
Exercise: Using coordination
Exercise: Using subordination
Exercise: Commas with introductory elements (autoscored)
Exercise: Commas with compound sentences (autoscored)
Exercise: Commas with restrictive and nonrestrictive elements (autoscored)
Exercise: Commas in series (autoscored)
Exercise: Various uses of commas (autoscored)
Exercise: Commas with titles, dates, and addresses (autoscored)
Exercise: Commas with quotations (autoscored)
Exercise: Unnecessary commas (autoscored)
Exercise: Semicolons (autoscored)
Exercise: Combining sentences using semicolons
Exercise: Revising for misused or overused semicolons
Exercise: Periods (autoscored)
Exercise: Question marks (autoscored)
Exercise: Exclamation points (autoscored)
Exercise: End punctuation (autoscored)
Exercise: Revising for appropriate use of end punctuation
Exercise: Apostrophes (autoscored)
Exercise: Forming the possessive case using apostrophes
Exercise: Using apostrophes where appropriate
Exercise: Quotation marks (autoscored)
Exercise: Quotation marks with other punctuation (autoscored)
Exercise: Using quotation marks to signal titles, definitions, irony, or invented terms
Exercise: Parentheses and brackets (autoscored)
Exercise: Dashes (autoscored)
Exercise: Colons (autoscored)
Exercise: Capitalization (autoscored)
Exercise: Capitalizing 1
Exercise: Capitalizing 2
Exercise: Abbreviations (autoscored)
Exercise: Numbers (autoscored)
Exercise: Eliminating inappropriate abbreviations
Exercise: Revising numbers for correctness and consistency
Exercise: Italics (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying words needing italicization
Exercise: Hyphens 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Hyphens 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Hyphens 3
Exercise: Analyzing a sample assignment
Exercise: Considering genre, medium, tone, and style
Exercise: Using strategies to explore a topic
Exercise: Drafting a preliminary working thesis
Exercise: Reflecting on organization
Exercise: Creating a plan
Exercise: Reflecting on your revision plan
Exercise: Preparing for peer review
Exercise: Analyzing your draft (DELETED)
Exercise: Evaluating thesis and support
Exercise: Evaluating conclusions
Exercise: Evaluating paragraphs
Exercise: Revising your own paragraph
Exercise: Planning a revised draft
Exercise: Reflecting on topic sentences
Exercise: Exploring a topic
Exercise: Reflecting on essay development
Exercise: Reflecting on organizing a comparison and contrast paragraph (DELETED)
Exercise: Brainstorming paragraph development
Exercise: Evaluating paragraph development
Exercise: Reflecting on paragraph breaks
Exercise: Reflecting on linking paragraphs
Exercise: Annotating a text
Exercise: Analyzing a text
Exercise: Analyzing an essay about free speech by Derek Bok
Exercise: Analyzing and responding to argument
Exercise: Determining whether a statement is arguable
Exercise: Brainstorming emotional appeals
Exercise: Drafting an argument
Exercise: Drafting a working thesis and identifying claims, reasons, and assumptions
Exercise: Moving from topic to working thesis
Exercise: Collaborating to identify claims in advertisement
Exercise: Analyzing ethical appeals in a visual argument
Exercise: Reflecting on logical appeals
Exercise: Considering emotional appeals
Exercise: Analyzing two possible topics
Exercise: Examining what you know about a topic
Exercise: Evaluating potential sources
Exercise: Annotating a digital source
Exercise: Reflecting on integrating sources
Exercise: Identifying plagiarism
Exercise: Testing your thesis
Exercise: Recognizing common knowledge 3 (autoscored)
Exercise: Researching a topic (autoscored)
Exercise: Summarizing sources (MLA) (autoscored)
Exercise: Summarizing sources (APA) (autoscored)
Exercise: Reading journal articles
Exercise: Analyzing work you have collected
Exercise: Revising sexist language
Exercise: Considering effects of standard English
Exercise: Spelling rules 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Spelling rules 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Spelling rules 3 (autoscored)
Exercise: Spelling rules 4 (autoscored)
Exercise: Plurals 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Plurals 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Documenting sources (APA) (autoscored)
Exercise: Integrating sources (Chicago) (autoscored)
Exercise: Documenting sources (Chicago): notes (autoscored)
Exercise: Documenting sources (Chicago): bibliographic entries (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding plagiarism (Chicago) 1 (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding plagiarism (Chicago) 2 (autoscored)
Exercise: Integrating sources (CSE) (autoscored)
Exercise: Avoiding plagiarism (CSE) (autoscored)
Exercise: Identifying verbs
Exercise: Identifying nouns and articles
Exercise: Identifying pronouns and antecedents
Exercise: Identifying adjectives and adverbs
Exercise: Identifying prepositions
Exercise: Identifying conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs
Exercise: Identifying complete and simple subjects
Exercise: Identifying predicates and their components
Exercise: Identifying phrases
Exercise: Identifying clauses
Exercise: Adding dependent clauses to improve sentences
Exercise: Classifying sentences
Exercise: Rewriting sentences with noun or noun-phrase errors
Exercise: Adding articles to a passage
Exercise: Creating appropriate sequences of verb tenses
Exercise: Converting sentences to the active or passive voice
Exercise: Revising for sentence length
Exercise: Adding necessary commas
Exercise: Using commas and coordinating conjunctions
Exercise: Using commas to set off nonrestrictive elements
Exercise: Using commas to set off items in a series
Exercise: Using commas with contrasting elements, interjections, direct address, and tag questions
Exercise: Using commas with dates, addresses, titles, and numbers
Exercise: Using commas with quotations
Exercise: Revising using parentheses and brackets
Exercise: Revising using dashes
Exercise: Using colons as needed
Exercise: Writing using models of effective punctuation
Exercise: Inserting and deleting hyphens
Thinking critically about analyzing arguments
Thinking critically about constructing arguments
Thinking critically about paragraphs
Thinking critically about reading
Thinking critically about rhetorical situations
Thinking critically about your collaborative work
Thinking critically about your expectations for college writing
Thinking critically about your reviewing and revising process
Thinking critically about your writing process
Thinking critically about conducting research
Thinking critically about research projects
Thinking critically about your evaluation of sources
Thinking critically about your integration of sources
Thinking critically about your own acknowledgment of sources
Thinking critically about multimodal texts
Thinking critically about oral and multimedia presentations
Thinking critically about business writing
Thinking critically about portfolios
Thinking critically about reading and writing in a discipline
Thinking critically about writing for the sciences
Thinking critically about writing in the humanities
Thinking critically about writing in the social sciences
Thinking critically about writing that makes something happen in the world
Thinking critically about assumptions in your writing
Thinking critically about dictionaries, vocabulary, and spelling
Thinking critically about language variety
Thinking critically about word choice
Thinking critically about adjectives and adverbs
Thinking critically about parts of speech
Thinking critically about pronouns
Thinking critically about sentences
Thinking critically about subject-verb agreement
Thinking critically about verbs
Thinking critically about comma splices and fused sentences
Thinking critically about consistency and completeness
Thinking critically about fragments
Thinking critically about modifiers
Thinking critically about parallelism
Thinking critically about shifts
Thinking critically about conciseness
Thinking critically about coordination and subordination
Thinking critically about apostrophes
Thinking critically about commas
Thinking critically about end punctuation
Thinking critically about punctuation
Thinking critically about quotation marks
Thinking critically about semicolons
Thinking critically about abbreviations and numbers
Thinking critically about capitalization
Thinking critically about hyphenation
Thinking critically about italics
Exercise: Reflecting on establishing credibility
Exercise: Identifying implied premises in deductive arguments