Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry  is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students.  Achieve includes an interactive eBook as well as our renowned assessments and new tutorial questions. Students will be able to focus their study with adaptive quizzing and more clearly see the relevance of chemistry through case studies. 

Achieve features a flexible suite of resources to support learning core concepts, visualization, problem-solving, and assessment. This powerful platform houses all student and instructor resources.  You can assign what you want or download resources as you need.  Powerful analytics and quick insights in Achieve pair with exceptional content to provide an unrivaled learning and teaching experience.

Achieve features:

• Achieve combines acclaimed automatically graded online homework with a powerful e-book and an extensive suite of engaging multimedia learning resources. Problems feature hints for when students get stuck, answer-specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes, and solutions to reinforce what they’ve learned.
• VitalSource etext (can be accessed on- and off-line)
• LearningCurve: Adaptive quizzing to get students prepared for class.
• Tutorial-style questions that guide students through complex problem-solving providing feedback and solutions with each step so students see how to approach questions and remediate mistakes along the way.
• Case Studies allow students to apply what they learned to more challenging problems, connect the chemistry they are learning to medical topics, and provide instructors with tools for active learning.

Guinn, Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry, 3e provides students with the essential chemistry they need for health careers and everyday life.

Relevant to health and medicine:

• Chemistry in Medicine: A Chemistry in Medicine feature concludes each chapter by providing an in-depth look at how the chemical principles described in the chapter can be directly applied to a problem or issue in healthcare.
• Concepts in Context:  Because context and connection are crucial to motivation and learning chemistry, each chapter opens in the form of a short, practical, and real-life example of a health-related topic connected to the concepts in the chapter.  These stories immediately immerse the student in a high-interest topic related to health and medicine.
• Case Studies in Achieve

Reduce Student Anxiety/ Builds Student Confidence:

• Core Concepts:  Margin boxes emphasize important concepts within the course, and provide a quick study tool for students in reviewing chapter content.
• Math Tips:  Margin boxes provide suggested techniques and reminders of math skills at points in the text when mathematics is required.
• Guidelines:  Step-by-step instructions, such as naming organic compounds, can be used as both explanations and a quick reference when doing homework or other exercises.  They are clearly set off in the text to emphasize their importance and to help students find them easily.
• Worked problem solving

Resources to promote study in Achieve

• LearningCurve adaptive quizzing
• Case Studies
• Tutorial questions
• Automatically graded homework problems with hints, targeted feedback and detialed solutions
• VitalSource e-Book