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International MindTap English Instant Access for Blau/Burak’s Writing in the Works, 4th Edition

Susan Blau, Kathryn Burak

  • Copyright 2017
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International MindTap English Instant Access for Blau/Burak’s Writing in the Works 4th Edition by Susan Blau/Kathryn Burak
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Overview

International MindTap English for Blau/Burak’s Writing in the Works, 4th Edition, is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.

As an instructor using MindTap you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours’, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course. All online text media materials accessible through this access code are available in EMEA, Latin America, Asia, and India only.

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Meet the Authors

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Susan Blau

Susan Blau was a professor and director of the Undergraduate Writing program and the Writing Center at Boston University's College of Communication. She received her BS in Education from the University of Vermont and her MA in English from the University of Connecticut, and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Her background is in linguistics, composition and rhetoric, and American Literature. She has taught writing in both English and Communication Departments and has published articles, conducted workshops, and presented papers at national conferences on the topics of teaching writing, writing across the curriculum, and writing center research and practice.

Kathryn Burak

Kathryn Burak has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in English from Kutztown University. She has taught writing at North Carolina State University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Boston University. She is the author of a novel, EMILY'S DRESS AND OTHER MISSING THINGS, and her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in such journals and magazines as Fiction, Missouri Review, Western Humanities Review, Gettysburg Review, Belt, and Seventeen. Her interests include teaching English to speakers of other languages.

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Table of Contents

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LEARNING PATH:

Chapter Learning Objectives. These Learning Objectives are linked to the key points of the chapter to keep students focused on the important takeaways.

Getting Started activities get students warmed up to critical inquiry and writing through provocative forum prompts.

eBook for MindTap® English for Blau/Burak’s WRITING IN THE WORKS, 4th Edition. The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Aplia homework assesses student critical thinking and allows them opportunities to improve upon their skills by providing a minimum of three variations for every problem.

InSite writing assignments require students to show the critical thinking and writing skills they have gained by completing the activities in the learning path.

Reflection activities allow students to think about how they have become better writers and thinkers.

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  • ISBN-10: 1337018775
  • ISBN-13: 9781337018777
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