MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Miller-Cochran/Rodrigo's Cengage Guide to Research, 3rd Edition

Susan K. Miller-Cochran, Rochelle L. Rodrigo

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MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Miller-Cochran/Rodrigo's Cengage Guide to Research 3rd Edition by Susan K. Miller-Cochran/Rochelle L. Rodrigo

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Overview

MindTap English for Miller-Cochran/Rodrigo\u2019s The Cengage Guide to Research, 3rd 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.

Meet the Authors

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Susan K. Miller-Cochran

Susan K. Miller-Cochran, now Executive Director of General Education at The University of Arizona, helped shape the writing programs at The University of Arizona from 2015–2020 and North Carolina State University from 2007–2015. Prior to that, she was a English/ESL faculty member at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Dr. Miller-Cochran served as president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (2015–2017). Her work focuses on the intersections of technology, second-language writing and writing program administration. A widely published and popular presenter, Dr. Miller-Cochran is also a co-author with Rochelle L. Rodrigo on the CENGAGE GUIDE TO RESEARCH (Cengage Learning). She received both her Master of Teaching English as a Second Language (MTESL) and her Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Rhetoric/Composition and Linguistics, from Arizona State University.

Rochelle L. Rodrigo

Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo is currently Visiting Professor at The University of Arizona. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and (New) Media at Old Dominion University. She was a full time faculty member for nine years in English and film studies at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Dr. Rodrigo researches how "newer" technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, more specifically teaching and learning. As well as co-authoring THE CENGAGE GUIDE TO RESEARCH, Shelley was also co-editor of RHETORICALLY RETHINKING USABILITY (Hampton Press). Her work has also appeared in Computers and Composition, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Journal of Advancing Technology, Flow, as well as various edited collections.

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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.
Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
Track students in real time with the Progress app and adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
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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LEARNING OBJECTIVES (shows the expected performance)

GETTING STARTED (motivates students to learn more and collaborate)

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READING (introduces concepts and provides context and depth). Includes the following in-line assets, where applicable: VIDEOS (instructional inline videos covering the writing and research process; may include auto-graded activity)

FLASHCARDS (provide a jump start on your course preparation and studying or create your own customized cards as you move through the course material)

USEFUL WEBLINKS AND VIDEOS (provide additional information on concepts and material discussed in the chapter)

HOMEWORK (Aplia problems that cover grammar, punctuation, mechanics, research, and documentation)

DIY READING

DIY WRITING SUBMISSION (InSite writing assignments that builds on the critical thinking and writing skills they have gained by completing the activities in the learning path)

REFLECTION ACTIVITY (provides another place for students to reflect in writing on the activities and concepts covered in the part)

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