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International MindTap English Instant Access for Trimmer’s The River Reader, 12th Edition

Joseph F. Trimmer

  • Copyright 2017
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International MindTap English Instant Access for Trimmer’s The River Reader 12th Edition by Joseph F. Trimmer
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Overview

MindTap English for Trimmer’s THE RIVER READER, 12th 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.

MindTap English engages your students to become better thinkers, communicators, and writers by blending your course materials with content that supports every aspect of the writing process. Interactive activities on grammar and mechanics promote application in student writing and an easy-to-use paper management system allows for electronic submission, grading, and peer review while tracking potential plagiarism. A vast database of scholarly sources with video tutorials and examples supports each step of the research process and professional tutoring guides students from rough drafts to polished writing. Visual analytics track student progress and engagement and seamless integration into your campus learning management system keeps all your course materials in one place.

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Meet the Authors

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Joseph F. Trimmer

Joseph F. Trimmer is Professor of English Emeritus and Director Emeritus of The Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. He is the author of numerous articles on literature, culture, and literacy, including THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1978), UNDERSTANDING OTHERS: CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE (1992), and NARRATION AS KNOWLEDGE: TALES OF THE TEACHING LIFE (1997). Professor Trimmer has also worked on 20 documentary films for PBS, including the six-part series, "Middletown" (1982). His textbooks include WRITING WITH A PURPOSE, 14th Edition (2004), THE RIVER READER, 12th Edition (formerly the RIVERSIDE READER (2016), and eFICTIONS (2002). Trimmer's A GUIDE TO MLA DOCUMENTATION, 9th Edition is a perennial bestseller; he has also published A GUIDE TO APA DOCUMENTATION.

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  • MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations.
  • Easily grade student papers electronically using customizable rubrics and correction mark sets that link to related content in the eBook. Save time managing peer review electronically and catch citation and plagiarism issues early with our originality checker.
  • Select readings to include in your course from a database of over 9 million articles and 78,000 full books.
  • Encourage students to use the six tutoring sessions included with each term of MindTap access to get personalized feedback on their writing from professional tutors.
  • A variety of activity options allow your students to create their own multimodal compositions and share them with their peers.
  • Auto-graded grammar, research, and citation assignments save valuable class time while giving students an opportunity to hone these important skills. Instant feedback about their performance helps students understand and apply the concepts.
  • MindTap® English now comes equipped with a diagnostic-powered learning module for foundational concepts and embedded course support, featuring individualized study paths of video tutorials, instructional text content, and scaffolded auto-graded activities generated on a student-by-student basis, with the ability to monitor student progress separately or as part of the whole course.
  • Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
  • Track students in real time with the Progress app and adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
  • With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
  • Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times--both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.

Table of Contents

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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 Trimmer's THE RIVER READER, 12th 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.

Research tutorial video quizzes provide students with additional practice on important topics they need to know when developing and writing papers with sources.

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

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This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.

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  • ISBN-10: 1337018880
  • ISBN-13: 9781337018883
  • RETAIL £45.00
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