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MYCOMPLAB: Where writing and research help is just a click away!
Longman

ISBN-10: 0321354397
ISBN-13: 9780321354396

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2006
Format: On-line Supplement
Published: 03/15/2004


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Providing more opportunities for practice, assessment and instruction than any similar site, MyCompLab is a dynamic online resource for the Composition course.  It offers market-leading tools for improving grammar, writing and research skills with comprehensive results tracking so students and instructors can gauge student progress.  Easy to use and easy to integrate into the classroom, MyCompLab engages students as it builds confidence and helps them to be better writers and researchers.  MyCompLab is an incredible value for your students. They will receive pre-paid access when they purchase a new Longman English textbook, or they may purchase the program on line at www.mycomplab.com. 

 

Here is a listing of some key resources within MyCompLab.  For descriptions of each, click the Features link to the left or visit www.mycomplab.com

 

ASSESSMENT

  • Grade Tracker -- A comprehensive assessment tool for students and instructors, unparrallel in any composition on-line product.

GRAMMAR

  • Grammar Diagnostics and Study Plan -- providing targeted diagnostics tests and overall study plan for individual students
  • ExerciseZone -- over 4,600 exercises in 45 topic areas
  • ESL Exercise Zone -- 700 self-grading practice questions designed to help ELL students
  • 20 Common Errors Interactive Tutorials -- videos which help students identify and fix common errors in their writing

WRITING

  • Exchange peer review -- an easy and engaging way to administer peer review assignments and grade papers online.
  • “Office Hours” Writing Videos --  showing real students tackling the stages of the writing process
  • Writing Process -- step-by-step instruction, strategies and practice opportunities for each stage of the writing process
  • Writing Activities -- over 100 image, video, and web-based writing prompts organized by the writing purposes with explanations of each form of writing. 
  • Model Documents Gallery -- an extensive collection of sample papers, reports, and documents from across the curriculum.
  • Analyzing Visuals -- tutorials, interactive documents and in-depth exercises for developing visual literacy skills.

RESEARCH

  • Citation Diagnostics and Exercises -- to help students learn to properly cite research sources and avoid plagiarizing  
  • Research Navigator -- providing access to databases of credible, academic sources such as EBSCO and New York Times
  • “Office Hours” Research Videos -- real students from Lander University, tackling key topics in the research process
  • Evaluating Sources tutorial -- help students learn how to select and use credible, reliable online sources for their research projects.
  • Avoiding Plagiarism -- tutorials, strategies, testing and practice to help students recognize and avoid plagiarism in both MLA and APA formats.

OTHER FEATURES

  • MyDropBox plagiarism detection service
  • Pearson Tutoring Services (powered by SmarThinking) on line paper review service provided for students using MyCompLab.

ASSESSMENT

  • Grade Tracker - Through Grade Tracker, MyCompLab offers assesment for grammar, writing, and research, while most other sites concentrate on grammar alone.  Grade Tracker allows students to track their results on all MyCompLab quizzes, exercises and activities.  Instructors receive access to the instructor view, where they can see and sort their students’ results. Instructors can sort by individual student, specific exercise set, date, as well as view number of student attempts, grades for each attempt, and they can add comments when assigning grades -- all within the Gradebook. No longer will instructors’ inboxes be filled with hundreds of online exercise emails from students.  Grade Tracker houses all student results in one place so instructors have a comprehensive view of student progress in the areas of grammar, writing and research. 

GRAMMAR

  • Grammar Diagnostics and Study Plan -- Two comprehensive 50-question diagnostic tests assess student skills in basic grammar, sentence grammar, mechanics and punctuation, and usage and style . Targeted Diagnostics test student skills in one of the four areas just listed, providing additional diagnostic opportunities.  For both Comprehensive and Targeted Diagnostics, results pages provide a study plan for the student with overall proficiency scores , question-by-question feedback, and links to appropriate areas in ExerciseZone to improve skills.
  • ExerciseZone -- Over 1000 new items have been added to ExericseZone bringing the total to 4,600 questions.  Almost every existing exercise has been updated and edited, ensuring the highest quality exercise sets in basic grammar, sentence grammar, punctuation and mechanics and usage and style.
  • ESL ExerciseZone -- contains 700 self-scoring practice items for students whose first language is not English, adapted from a classic worktext published by Longman’s ELT division.
  • 20 Common Errors Interactive Tutorials -- With animated examples and clear, concise audio and video instruction, these excellent teaching tools address multiple learning styles and walk students through identifying and fixing common errors in their writing.  Topics include comma splices, pronoun reference, parallelism and wordiness/redundancy.

WRITING

  • Exchange -- Pearson’s online peer and instructor review program, is a flexible, easy to use program that makes both delivering peer review assignments and grading papers simpler and more effective.  It is simple for instructors to create their course, create assignments, and keep track of students’ grades.  Students upload papers with a click of a button.  Students and their instructor can comment on papers at the word, sentence, paragraph or paper level.  Just click to: help students identify and overcome common errors through links to an online handbook; save favorite comments; let all students see comments, or only the author and instructor; set due dates; attach writing checklists; print papers with comments, delete uploaded papers, make the paper view window bigger, and much more! 
  • Office Hours” Writing Videos -- This motivational video series shows real students tackling the stages of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, peer review) and learning useful strategies from their instructor.    Writing Process. Offering in-depth instruction and practice opportunities for each stage of the writing process, this section also provides a series of “guided” exercises that walk students from one step to the next, allowing students to bring a writing project to completion.   Writing ActivitiesProviding a useful bank of homework assignments or in-class activities, this section offers 100 different writing exercises in which students respond to videos, images, and websites.  The activities are further divided according to writing purpose: analyze, argue, compare, describe, discuss, evaluate, extend, inform, self-reflect, and synthesize.
  • Writing Process --  Offering in-depth instruction and practice opportunities for each stage of the writing process, this section also provides a series of “guided” exercises that walk students from one step to the next, allowing students to bring a writing project to completion.
  • Writing Activities -- Providing a useful bank of homework assignments or in-class activities, this section offers 100 different writing exercises in which students respond to videos, images, and websites. The activities are further divided according to writing purpose: analyze, argue, compare, describe, discuss, evaluate, extend, inform, self-reflect, and synthesize.
  • Model Documents Gallery -- An extensive collection of sample papers, reports, and documents from across the curriculum.
  • Analyzing Visuals -- offers step-by-step tutorials, interactive documents and in-depth exercises for developing visual literacy skills. “Analyzing a Visual Text” walks students step-by-step through the process they should use to analyze an image, while “Reading Visual Arguments” offers guided exercises in which they explore the elements of visual argument and practice strategies for reading them critically. Other resources include “Interactive Visuals” -- interactive documents that show how the process of visual analysis can be applied to specific images -- and “Activities for Writing about Visuals,” which provides writing prompts and projects

 

RESEARCH

  • Citation Diagnostics and Exercise -- To help students learn the critical skill of properly citing research sources and avoiding plagiarism, MyCompLab offers citation diagnostics and self-grading practice exercises in MLA and APA styles. Two diagnostics in each style, a pre- and post-test, assess student skill in recognizing correct citations for Books, Periodicals and Electronic Sources.  Diagnostic results provide a study plan with proficiency scores, question-by-question feedback, and links to appropriate citation exercises for practice and review.
  • Research Navigator -- includes step-by-step guidance in the research process (adapted from J.D. Lester’s best-selling Writing Research Papers) while also providing access to databases of credible, academic sources.  Student receive access to: EBSCO’s ContentSelect (a searchable database of over 25,000 articles from academic journals); The New York Times Search-by-Subject archive; and Link Library (editorially selected links to academic resources arranged by discipline and searchable by key term). ResearchNavigator also includes AutoCite, an easy to use bibliography maker in APA and MLA styles.
  • “Office Hours” Research Videos -- As with the Writing “Office Hours” videos, the ones in the research section show real students, from Lander University, tackling key topics in the research process (finding and narrowing a topic, evaluating sources, citing sources, avoiding plagiarism) and learning valuable strategies from their instructor.
  • Evaluating Sources tutorial -- By reading guidelines, watching an animated tutorial, and practicing best habits, this resouce will help students learn how to select and use credible, reliable online sources for their research projects. The “Guidelines” section reviews the fundamentals, while the animated tutorial shows a student conducting research and receiving valuable advice for evaluating sources from an Internet search.  A series of guided exercises prompts students to evaluate and critique selected websites and a mastery test completes the unit, challenging students to perform a thorough review of the selected online source and make recommendations for usage.
  • Avoiding Plagiarism -- the most comprehensive and interactive program of its kind, offers self-guided tutorials, strategies, testing and practice to help students recognize and avoid plagiarism in both MLA and APA formats. Student answers to all Avoiding Plagiarism quizzes and exercises are saved in Grade Tracker so instructors can assign grades and track progress.

OTHER FEATURES

  • MyDropBox -- Instructors who use a MyCompLab Value Pack in their course can receive complimentary access to MyDropBox’ SafeAssignment program, a leading online plagiarism detection service.  SafeAssignment is an advanced plagiarism prevention system that automatically compares all student papers submitted to MyDropBox against a wide range of sources, including: 8 billion web pages; all major public digital databases; FindArticles™ database; the entire family of ProQuest™ ABI/Inform databases; MyDropBox’s proprietary database of over 300,000 academic papers known to be offered by paper-mill Web sites; and all student papers previously submitted to MyDropBox within an instructor’s department.  Detailed Originality Reports are turned around in 5 to 10 minutes.
  • Pearson Tutor Services, (powered by SmarThinking). Offering students full time support in their writing efforts, SmarThinking is an online tutoring service that provides students with paper review 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Consistently given high ratings by students, faculty, and administrators for the quality of their service, SmarThinking employs hundreds of qualified writing tutors in the United States - all tutors have teaching and tutoring experience, and over 80% hold master's degrees or PhDs.  Students who are registered for MyCompLab, MyWritingLab, MyTechCommLab or MyLiteratureLab can submit a specified number of papers for review directly from their MyLab site.  Detailed feedback will be returned to the student within 24 hours. 

  • Pearson Tutor Services, (powered by SmarThinking). Offering students full time support in their writing efforts, SmarThinking is an online tutoring service that provides students with paper review 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Consistently given high ratings by students, faculty, and administrators for the quality of their service, SmarThinking employs hundreds of qualified writing tutors in the United States - all tutors have teaching and tutoring experience, and over 80% hold master's degrees or PhDs.  Students who are registered for MyCompLab, MyWritingLab, MyTechCommLab or MyLiteratureLab can submit a specified number of papers for review directly from their MyLab site.  Detailed feedback will be returned to the student within 24 hours.

My students are really loving MyCompLab and learning so much more by having to read and assess themselves. I'm loving it! They say they have learned more about English in the past few weeks than they did in 12 years of school. They just keep going over it until they learn it… I was a dinosaur and was very skeptical of what the technology could do better than I, but my classes are proof positive that this works so much better in today's technological age.

 

—Sue Tretter, Lindenwood University

 

 

MyCompLab has worked really well for us. Students appreciate its ease of use and instructors like the gradebook feature for tracking grades. The best part of it is that it helps faculty to better use their time in class and then assign out-of-class exercises at the web site.

 

—Michael Hricik, Westmoreland County Community College

 

“MyCompLab provides an efficient and user-friendly way to follow up on class discussions, allow students to self-test, and encourages writing practice in an informal environment.  I have used a variety of MyCompLab tools throughout my freshman composition courses.  Before in-class essays, I offer extra credit to students who write practice essays from the "Activities" section; they enjoy the relevant, multimedia topics and are noticeably more prepared to respond to an essay prompt after practicing online.  Another extremely useful MyCompLab tool is the section on plagiarism and documentation.  After these issues are introduced in class, students can demonstrate mastery of the concepts by completing the series of quizzes and exercises in either MLA or APA style.  The tools I use the most are in the "Process" section, where students can submit a variety of pre-writing and revision exercises in preparation for major essays or as opportunities to improve.  Overall, I feel my students have enjoyed using the site and have benefited as writers...”  

 

-- Laura Jeffries, Florida Community College at Jacksonville

 

 

“MyCompLab is an excellent academic resource for the composition classroom.  My students and I love the Exchange peer review tool.  Students get the benefit of peer review without taking valuable lecture time PLUS I can respond to their drafts in an easy online format!  Another feature that I strongly recommend is the Avoiding Plagiarism section.  Since I started to assign that section to my composition classes, I have seen dramatic improvement in student understanding of concepts like use of signal phrase, appropriate use of paraphrase and summary, and how to distinguish when source material is common knowledge.  The interactive quizzes for these sections give students immediate feedback and thanks to Grade Tracker I get a clear sense of what areas of documentation to focus on in the classroom.  Thanks for the opportunity to gush about MyCompLab!” 

 

- Robin Sprague, Hawkeye Community College

 

 

“My students are really loving MyCompLab and learning so much more by having to read and assess themselves.  I'm loving it!  They say they have learned more about English in the past few weeks than they did in 12 years of school.  They just keep going over it until they learn it… they quickly become encouraged when they use the program and see their grades constantly go up.  In no other class do they get daily feedback to keep track of their grades.  The students and I have fun with MyCompLab, and the students who have taken the subsequent composition course with me have shown great improvement in their writing skills.  Other professors have reported that these students do well in their courses also. I was a dinosaur and was very skeptical of what the technology could do better than I, but my classes are proof positive that this works so much better in today's technological age.”

 

-- Sue Tretter, Lindenwood University

 

 

“Computer programs should help the teacher accomplish what they want toaccomplish, not mandate how the teacher has to teach. MyCompLab is broad enough and 

versatile enough to serve that end.  I've been on a quest to figure out how to improve student writing and decrease my time grading.  MyCompLab has been a great resource toward realizing those goals.”

 

-- Susan Grover, Brigham Young  University — Idaho

 

 

“For students, MyCompLab is like having a writing practice lab, several textbooks, a library, a testing center, a peer-review group, and an Internet search engine all in one. For instructors, MyCompLab can be as straightforward as a web-based resource tool; or as complete as an integrated course management program, providing assistance with diagnostic testing, developing assignments, monitoring student writing, and managing grades.”

 

--Timothy Dillon, Monroe Community College

 

 

“MyCompLab offers critical tools to assist students in their writing projects.  With a variety of activities for students to engage in during invention, drafting, and editing, MyCompLab walks students through the steps that will help them work through their ideas and create successful papers.  The Exchange peer review tool allows for anywhere from highly scaffolded peer review assignments to extremely flexible peer review processes. Both the Exchange and Grade Tracker gradebooks provide a variety of opportunities to assess, track and/or assign grades to different activities that allow for vertical (all the same student) or horizontal (the same assignment across all the students) viewing and assessment.”

 

 -- Rochelle Rodrigo, Maricopa Community College

 

 

“Instead of writing the same responses, over and over, to the most common errors in student essays, Exchange allows me to simply click and insert my saved comments.  Now I have more time, and the comments I do write are personalized.  Using Exchange brought me the only “thank you” I’ve ever received for grading, and here it is:
‘Dr. Caver,
I would like to thank you for the very insightful review of my Mr. Adams’s essay. I am impressed with the MyCompLab method and I'm sure it makes grading and commenting much easier for you. I have never had a paper returned with so much usable feedback.
Thomas Wilson, Spring WRC 1023.023, University of Texas at San Antonio’”

 

-- Christine Caver, University of Texas at San Antonio

 

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    Nadell, Langan & Comodromos
    © 2009 | Longman | Paper; 768 pages | Instock
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    • Clear, step-by-step writing instruction, ample annotated student essays, and extensive practice opportunities for writing have made The Longman Writer one of the most successful methods-of-development guides for college writing.

     

    Created by the authors of the best-selling Longman Reader, the text draws on decades of teaching experience to integrate the best of the "product" and "process" approaches to writing.  Its particular strengths include an emphasis on the reading-writing connection, a focus on invention and revision, attention to the fact that patterns blend in actual writing, and an abundance of class-tested activities and assignments—more than 350 in all.

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    Nadell, Langan & Comodromos
    © 2009 | Longman | Paper; 704 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205598706 | ISBN-13: 9780205598700
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