The Essentials of Writing: Ten Core Concepts (w/ MLA9E Update) | 3rd Edition

MindTap for Yagelski's Writing: Ten Core Concepts, 3rd Edition, is a personalized, online learning platform that provides students with an immersive learning experience to build and foster critical thinking skills. It gives you complete control of your course -- to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. Included in MindTap is Just in Time Plus - a powerful resource for self-paced remediation. This series has 21 foundational topics; for each topic, a media quiz (Video Tutorial), textual instruction (Quick Review), and Aplia activity (Assignment) are provided. We are expanding this popular series with 23 additional topics to provide further assistance to low-performing students: 4 reading topics, 4 sentence topics, and 2 punctuation topics. We are also including 13 new topics for which we will use existing video from the How-to Research series, on paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and documenting sources. A library of 50 Readings is also included. These readings are organized around 10 themes with 5 readings each. The apparatus for each reading consists of a Word document with a brief author headnote, short vocabulary instruction, and questions for before, during, and after reading. A separate plank offers an Aplia activity that includes auto-graded and discussion questions.

MindTap for Yagelski's Writing: Ten Core Concepts, 3rd Edition, is a personalized, online learning platform that provides students with an immersive learning experience to build and foster critical thinking skills. It gives you complete control of your course -- to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. Included in MindTap is Just in Time Plus - a powerful resource for self-paced remediation. This series has 21 foundational topics; for each topic, a media quiz (Video Tutorial), textual instruction (Quick Review), and Aplia activity (Assignment) are provided. We are expanding this popular series with 23 additional topics to provide further assistance to low-performing students: 4 reading topics, 4 sentence topics, and 2 punctuation topics. We are also including 13 new topics for which we will use existing video from the How-to Research series, on paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and documenting sources. A library of 50 Readings is also included. These readings are organized around 10 themes with 5 readings each. The apparatus for each reading consists of a Word document with a brief author headnote, short vocabulary instruction, and questions for before, during, and after reading. A separate plank offers an Aplia activity that includes auto-graded and discussion questions.