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MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Saba's Composing to Communicate: A Student's Guide, 1st Edition

Robert Saba

  • Copyright 2017
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MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Saba's Composing to Communicate: A Student's Guide 1st Edition by Robert Saba
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Overview

MindTap English for Saba\u2019s Composing to Communicate: A Student's Guide 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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Robert Saba

Robert Saba is the associate director of undergraduate writing programs at Florida International University in Miami. He has taught college writing for more than twenty-five years, specializing in first-year composition, advanced research, approaches to literature, courses about the history of the essay, and personal narratives. His publications include articles on writing, politics, and film, as well as short fiction and French-to-English translations.

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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.
  • 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.
  • MindTap® helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.

Table of Contents

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e-Book for COMPOSING TO COMMUNICATE, 1st Edition. The acclaimed MindTap® Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Chapter Learning Objectives. These Learning Objectives are linked to the key points in each chapter to keep students focused on the important learning outcomes.

Homework Assignments. Interactive assignments in Aplia give students the practice they need with grammar and writing.

Writing Assignments. Papers can be assigned and graded online via InSite, a writing app that also features peer review, sample rubrics and an originality checker.

Reflection Activities. These activities, styled like notebook entries, encourage students to think deeply about what they've learned in each part of the book and apply that knowledge to future skills.

Resources for Teaching. A separate folder on the learning path contains additional instructor materials, including the instructor's manual.

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Each MindTap product offers the full, mobile-ready textbook combined with superior and proven learning tools at one affordable price. Students who purchase digital access can add a print option at any time when a print option is available for their course.

This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.

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  • ISBN-10: 1305671759
  • ISBN-13: 9781305671751
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