MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Blau/Burak's Writing in the Works, 4th Edition

Susan Blau, Kathryn Burak

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MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Blau/Burak's Writing in the Works 4th Edition by Susan Blau/Kathryn Burak

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MindTap English for Writing in the Works, 4th Edition is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course\u2014to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual, and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap engages students to become better thinkers, communicators, and writers as they review every aspect of the writing process. Interactive activities emphasize grammar and mechanics. A paper management system allows electronic submission, grading, and peer review while tracking potential plagiarism. Video tutorials and examples support research and professional tutoring guides students from rough drafts to polished writing. Analytics track student progress as MindTap works with existing learning management systems.

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Susan Blau

Susan Blau was a professor and director of the Undergraduate Writing program and the Writing Center at Boston University's College of Communication. She received her BS in Education from the University of Vermont and her MA in English from the University of Connecticut, and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Her background is in linguistics, composition and rhetoric, and American Literature. She has taught writing in both English and Communication Departments and has published articles, conducted workshops, and presented papers at national conferences on the topics of teaching writing, writing across the curriculum, and writing center research and practice.

Kathryn Burak

Kathryn Burak has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in English from Kutztown University. She has taught writing at North Carolina State University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Boston University. She is the author of a novel, EMILY'S DRESS AND OTHER MISSING THINGS, and her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in such journals and magazines as Fiction, Missouri Review, Western Humanities Review, Gettysburg Review, Belt, and Seventeen. Her interests include teaching English to speakers of other languages.

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MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations.
Easily grade student papers electronically using customizable rubrics and correction mark sets that link to related content in the eBook. Save time managing peer review electronically and catch citation and plagiarism issues early with our originality checker.
Select readings to include in your course from a database of over 9 million articles and 78,000 full books.
Encourage students to use the six tutoring sessions included with each term of MindTap access to get personalized feedback on their writing from professional tutors.
A variety of activity options allow your students to create their own multimodal compositions and share them with their peers.
Auto-graded grammar, research, and citation assignments save valuable class time while giving students an opportunity to hone these important skills. Instant feedback about their performance helps students understand and apply the concepts.
MindTap® English now comes equipped with a diagnostic-powered learning module for foundational concepts and embedded course support, featuring individualized study paths of video tutorials, instructional text content, and scaffolded auto-graded activities generated on a student-by-student basis, with the ability to monitor student progress separately or as part of the whole course.
Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
Track students in real time with the Progress app and adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.

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Chapter Learning Objectives. These Learning Objectives are linked to the key points of the chapter to keep students focused on the important takeaways.

Getting Started activities get students warmed up to critical inquiry and writing through provocative forum prompts.

eBook for MindTap® English for Blau/Burak’s WRITING IN THE WORKS, 4th Edition. The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Aplia homework assesses student critical thinking and allows them opportunities to improve upon their skills by providing a minimum of three variations for every problem.

InSite writing assignments require students to show the critical thinking and writing skills they have gained by completing the activities in the learning path.

Reflection activities allow students to think about how they have become better writers and thinkers.

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