Welcome to LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks

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

The Top Twenty

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)

Writing Processes: Expectations for College Writing

Video Prompt: Lessons from informal writing

Video Prompt: Something to learn from each other

Exercise: Reflecting on your informal writing

Writing Processes: Rhetorical Situations

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

Writing Processes: Prewriting

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

Writing Processes: Planning & Drafting

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)

Writing Processes: Reviewing & Revising

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

Writing Processes: Editing & Proofreading

Student Writing: Final draft (Emily Lesk)

Exercise: Creating an editing checklist

Writing Processes: Reflecting to Learn

Student Writing: Reflective blog post (Thanh Nguyen)

Writing Processes: Working with Others

Video Prompt: Working with other people

Critical Thinking & Argument: Reading Critically

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)

Critical Thinking & Argument: Analyzing Arguments

Student Writing: Rhetorical analysis (Milena Ateyea)

Critical Thinking & Argument: Constructing Arguments

Student Writing: Argument project (Benjy Mercer-Golden)

Video Prompt: Facing a challenging argument

Research: Preparing for a Research Project

Video Prompt: Researching something exciting

Research: Evaluating Sources

Student Writing: Annotated bibliography (Tony Chan)

Student Writing: Reflective annotated bibliography (Nandita Sriram)

Research: Integrating Sources

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)

Research: Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

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)

Research: Writing a Research Project

Video Prompt: When to stop researching

Designing and Performing Writing: Presentations

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

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing: Academic Work in Any Discipline

Video Prompt: Improving with practice

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing: Writing for the Humanities

Student Writing: Close reading of poetry (Bonnie Sillay)

Student Writing: Film analysis (Amrit Rao)

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing: Writing for the Social Sciences

Student Writing: Literature review in psychology (Tawnya Redding)

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing: Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences

Student Writing: Lab report in chemistry (Allyson Goldberg)

Student Writing: Research proposal (Tara Gupta)

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing: Writing for Business

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

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing: Portfolios

Reflective portfolio cover letter (James Kung)

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing: Writing to Make Something Happen in the World

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)

Language: Language Variety

Video Prompt: Correctness in context

Language: Word Choice

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

Language: Dictionaries and Vocabulary Building

Exercise: Checking spelling and pronunciation

Exercise: Checking etymology

Exercise: Using contextual clues

Language: Spelling

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

Documentation: MLA Style

Student Writing: MLA-style research project (David Craig)

Documentation: APA Style

Student Writing: APA-style research project (Martha Bell)

Documentation: Chicago Style

Student Writing: Chicago-style research project (Amanda Rinder)

Documentation: CSE Style

Student Writing: CSE-style literature review (Joanna Hays)

Grammar: Parts of Speech

Exercise: Identifying verbs, nouns, and pronouns (autoscored)

Exercise: Identifying adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns (autoscored)

Exercise: Identifying conjunctions and prepositions (autoscored)

Grammar: Parts of Sentences

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)

Grammar: Nouns and Noun Phrases

Exercise: Nouns and noun phrases (autoscored)

Exercise: Articles (autoscored)

Grammar: Verbs

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

Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement

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

Grammar: Pronouns

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

Grammar: Adjectives and Adverbs

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

Grammar: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Exercise: Two-word verbs (autoscored)

Exercise: Identifying incorrect prepositions (autoscored)

Exercise: Revising to include prepositions

Exercise: Using two-word verbs correctly

Clarity: Shifts

Exercise: Unnecessary shifts (autoscored)

Exercise: Avoiding illogical shifts in verb tense (autoscored)

Exercise: Revising to eliminate unnecessary shifts

Clarity: Parallelism

Exercise: Parallelism (autoscored)

Exercise: Using parallel words and phrases

Exercise: Revising for errors in parallelism

Clarity: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

Exercise: Comma splices and fused sentences (autoscored)

Exercise: Revising to correct comma splices and fused sentences

Exercise: Evaluating methods for correcting comma splices

Clarity: Fragments

Exercise: Sentence fragments (autoscored)

Exercise: Revising sentence fragments

Exercise: Revising sentence fragments 2

Clarity: Modifier Placement

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

Clarity: Consistent and Complete Structures

Exercise: Misplaced modifiers 1 (autoscored)

Exercise: Revising sentence structure for consistency

Exercise: Revising for completeness and consistency

Style: Concise Writing

Exercise: Conciseness (autoscored)

Exercise: Rewriting sentences using the active voice

Exercise: Revising for conciseness

Style: Coordination and Subordination

Exercise: Emphasizing main ideas (autoscored)

Exercise: Subordination (autoscored)

Exercise: Coordinating ideas with semicolons and conjunctive adverbs (autoscored)

Exercise: Using coordination

Exercise: Using subordination

Punctuation: Commas

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)

Punctuation: Semicolons

Exercise: Semicolons (autoscored)

Exercise: Combining sentences using semicolons

Exercise: Revising for misused or overused semicolons

End Punctuation

Exercise: Periods (autoscored)

Exercise: Question marks (autoscored)

Exercise: Exclamation points (autoscored)

Exercise: End punctuation (autoscored)

Exercise: Revising for appropriate use of end punctuation

Punctuation: Apostrophes

Exercise: Apostrophes (autoscored)

Exercise: Forming the possessive case using apostrophes

Exercise: Using apostrophes where appropriate

Punctuation: Quotation Marks

Exercise: Quotation marks (autoscored)

Exercise: Quotation marks with other punctuation (autoscored)

Exercise: Using quotation marks to signal titles, definitions, irony, or invented terms

Punctuation: Other Punctuation Marks

Exercise: Parentheses and brackets (autoscored)

Exercise: Dashes (autoscored)

Exercise: Colons (autoscored)

Mechanics: Capital Letters

Exercise: Capitalization (autoscored)

Exercise: Capitalizing 1

Exercise: Capitalizing 2

Mechanics: Abbreviations and Numbers

Exercise: Abbreviations (autoscored)

Exercise: Numbers (autoscored)

Exercise: Eliminating inappropriate abbreviations

Exercise: Revising numbers for correctness and consistency

Mechanics: Italics

Exercise: Italics (autoscored)

Exercise: Identifying words needing italicization

Mechanics: Hyphens

Exercise: Hyphens 1 (autoscored)

Exercise: Hyphens 2 (autoscored)

Exercise: Hyphens 3

More Resources

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