Welcome Page for Students

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Welcome to the LaunchPad for Technical Communication, Eleventh Edition.

In this course space, you’ll find units packed with interactive digital content, including:

Cases

Document-based cases, previously included at the end of each chapter, are now presented online, where you can familiarize yourself with each scenario, download and work with related documents, and access assignment questions in a single space.

Document Analysis Activities

Explore real multimedia documents that harness digital technologies in exciting new ways, and respond to prompts that will help you analyze them.

Downloadable Forms

Download and work with a variety of helpful forms discussed throughout the text.

LearningCurve adaptive quizzing

Master the material covered in the first ten chapters of the text as well as key skills for multilingual writers with LearningCurve, a fun adaptive quizzing program that meets you where you are and gives you the extra support you need when you need it.

Team Writing Modules

These modules, built around five short videos of real team interactions, focus on the role of written communication in teamwork. They'll teach you how to use written documentation to manage a team by producing task schedules, minutes, charters, and other materials and also provide models for working on large collaborative documents.

Tutorials

Engaging tutorials show you helpful tools and tips for creating your projects along with guidance on how to best use them, as well as the documentation process for citing the sources you use in MLA and APA style.

E-books

You have full access to two Bedford/St. Martin's e-books: Document-Based Cases for Technical Communication, Second Edition, by Roger Munger, and Team Writing by Joanna Wolfe.