LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks 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 see the Student Knowledge Base, or contact Tech Support. You can find Tech Support contact information by clicking “Help” in the upper right corner of your screen.

Interactive content and tutorials

LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks includes several kinds of interactive multimodal content specifically designed to complement your print Lunsford handbook. You’ll find reflective writing prompts featuring videos of real student writers, storyboards that illustrate aspects of the writing process, student writing in many genres and disciplines that you can use to practice peer review or to model work you are creating, and a lot more.

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

You’ll also find autoscored exercises and LearningCurve quizzing to help you practice the skills you’re learning in your course.

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.