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Welcome to the LaunchPad for The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, 11th Edition

LaunchPad for The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing 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.

In the e-book you’ll find all the great content and activities from the printed book, including

Acclaimed Guides to Writing that help you internalize a systematic yet flexible approach to composing that can be transferred to any writing situation. The Starting Points, Peer Review, and Troubleshooting Guides are all downloadable as PDFs.
Sustained Attention to Critical Reading, with guides that help you hone your ability to read like a writer.
A new Chapter 1, “Composing Literacy,” with exciting brief literacy narratives like the hilarious “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris about the challenges of learning a foreign language and a graphic memoir by cartoonist Lynda Barry, looking back on her inventive interpretations of the classifieds.
1 chapter (chapter 2) on writing a memoir, which walks you through the process of telling a story with pizzazz.
1 chapter (chapter 3) on writing a profile, a mini-documentary that takes your readers behind the scenes through slice-of-life portraits.
1 chapter (chapter 4) on explaining a concept, a crucial skill in college writing and beyond.
A new Chapter 5, “Analyzing and Synthesizing Opposing Arguments,” which shows you how to review an array of positions, synthesize ideas across selections, and analyze alternative viewpoints before adopting a position of your own, all skills you will need to do well in just about every college course you take.
5 argument chapters (chapters 6-10) showing you how to convince others to accept your position, solution, evaluation, cause, or interpretation and to disarm the opposition.
A brief handbook providing you with a reliable resource when you need help with issues from avoiding comma splices to correcting subject-verb agreement.

Also available:

Additional student essays you can use as models from Sticks and Stones and Other Essays, a collection of essays written in response to the assignments in Part 1 of The Guide.
LearningCurve, a game-like quizzing program that creates a learning path tailored to your needs. Developed in light of the latest advances in learning research, LearningCurve offers adaptive quizzing covering 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 difficult the questions become.
Tutorials that help you learn crucial skills from reading critically and citing sources to digital composing skills and building your professional brand.