An Annotated Instructor’s Edition (ISBN 0-07-332741-7) consists of the student text complete with answers to all activities and tests. Throughout the text (in the margins), Teaching Tips offer suggestions for various approaches, classroom activities, discussions, and assignments.
The Virtual Workbook Donna Matsumoto, Leward Community College This online workbook offers interactive activities and exercises that reinforce the skills students learn in Part III of Exploring Writing. It is supported by a powerful array of Web-based instructor’s tools, including an automated online gradebook.
The Classroom Performance System (CPS by eInstruction) is an easy-to-use, wireless response system that allows instructors to conduct quizzes and polls in class and provide students with immediate feedback. McGraw-Hill provides a database of questions compatible with Exploring Writing: Sentences and Paragraphs and Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays. To download the database, go to the Exploring Writing OLC at www.mhhe.com/langan. For further details on CPS, go to www.mhhe.com/einstruction.
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Supplements for Students
The Virtual Workbook
Donna Matsumoto, Leward Community College
This online workbook offers interactive activities and exercises that reinforce the skills students learn in Part III of Exploring Writing. It is supported by a powerful array of Web-based instructor’s tools, including an automated online gradebook.
The New McGraw-Hill Exercise Book
Santi Buscemi, Middlesex College (ISBN 0-07-326032-0)
This workbook features numerous additional sentence- and paragraph- level editing exercises, as well as research-, documentation-, and writing- related exercises that can be used for any composition course.
The McGraw-Hill Exercise Book for Multilingual Writers
Maggie Sokolik, UC Berkeley (ISBN 0-07-326030-4)
This workbook features numerous sentence-level and paragraph-level editing exercises tailored specifically for multilingual students.
A Writer’s Journal Lynee Gaillet, Georgia State University (ISBN 0-07-326031-2)
This elegant journal for students includes quotes on writing from famous authors, as well as advice and tips on writing and the writing process.
The McGraw-Hill Student Planner (ISBN 0-07-322205-4)
This practical spiral-bound date book and planner for students is organized around the academic year, offering them a handy tool to structure and plan their work. It includes a brief almanac at the back with important facts from a variety of disciplines.
Dictionary and Vocabulary Resources
Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (ISBN 0-07-240011-0): This authoritative dictionary includes over 160,000 entries and 175,000 definitions. The most commonly used definitions are always listed first, so students can find what they need quickly.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (ISBN 0-07-310057-9), based on the best-selling Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, contains over 70,000 definitions.
The Merriam-Webster’s Thesaurus (ISBN 0-07-310067-6): This handy paperback thesaurus contains over 157,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words, and idioms.
Merriam-Webster’s Vocabulary Builder (ISBN 0-07-310069-2) introduces 3,000 words, and it includes quizzes to test progress.
Merriam-Webster’s Notebook Dictionary (ISBN 0-07-299091-0): An extremely concise reference to the words that form the core of the English vocabulary, this popular dictionary, conveniently designed for 3-ring binders, provides words and information at students’ fingertips.
Merriam Webster's Notebook Thesaurus (ISBN 0-07-310068-4) is designed for 3-ring binders and helps students search for words they might need today. It provides concise, clear guidance for over 157,000 word choices.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Electronic Edition (ISBN 0-07-310070-6): Available on CD-ROM, this online dictionary contains thousands of new words and meanings from all areas of human endeavor, including electronic technology, the sciences, and popular culture.
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