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Catalyst 2.0 is a Web-based, collaborative, assisted writing environment designed to help students improve their academic writing and research skills.
Catalyst empowers students to:
- Consistently apply the writing process
- Efficiently find and accurately document sources
- Develop a keen sense of audience awareness
- Effectively apply rhetorical strategies
- Employ grammatically correct style and usage
- Apply effective document design
Key Features:
- Instructor assignable learning activities
- Integrated online gradebook
- Browser-based, platform independent collaborative peer review system
- Writing, research, and bibliography tools
- Writing tutors (2.0: now with writing "wizards" for even more fine-tuned step-by-step student help)
- Numerous student writing samples, including complete research paper examples
- Class roster and gradebook exports to Blackboard, WebCT, or spreadsheet format
- Writing tips and Web links
- Browser-based rich text word processing
(in peer review module)
- Grammar style and usage instruction and assessment (greatly enhanced in 2.0)
- Over 4000 writing and grammar exercises
- Streaming video and audio
- Avoiding plagiarism tutorial complete with numerous exercises (2.0: New, enhanced design)
- Unique, built-in, easy-to-use course management system enables creation of assignments based on any Catalyst resource in 60 seconds or less.
Catalyst content is organized into the following modules:
- Learning
- Writing
- Research
- Editing
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