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LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference (Six Months Access)
First Edition| ©2018 Mike Palmquist
LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference is an online learning resource to accompany In Conversation: A Writer’s Guidebook and The Bedford Researcher. It offers a robust set of research and composition activities, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing on research, citation, and...
LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference is an online learning resource to accompany In Conversation: A Writer’s Guidebook and The Bedford Researcher. It offers a robust set of research and composition activities, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing on research, citation, and grammar concepts; Writer to Writer animated videos on style; and dozens of student writing models across disciplines.
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Get more practice with LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference.
LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference is an online learning resource to accompany In Conversation: A Writer’s Guidebook and The Bedford Researcher. It offers a robust set of research and composition activities, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing on research, citation, and grammar concepts; Writer to Writer animated videos on style; and dozens of student writing models across disciplines.
Features
- Exercises on incorporating sources in context, annotating a bibliography, and selecting the best search terms for all types of research
- Tutorials on designing documents and documenting sources
- Practice activities on identifying plagiarism
- Writer to Writer videos highlighting sticky writing situations in academic writing
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing on grammar and citation
- Grammar Girl podcasts offer an entertaining look at the nitty-grittyof grammar
New to This Edition
- Exercises on incorporating sources in context, annotating a bibliography, and selecting the best search terms for all types of research
- Tutorials on designing documents and documenting sources
- Practice activities on identifying plagiarismA streamlined citation builder that helps students to create citations for their own papers
- Writer to Writer videos highlighting sticky writing situations in academic writing
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing on grammar and citation
- Grammar Girl podcasts offer an entertaining look at the nitty-gritty of grammar

LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference (Six Months Access)
First Edition| ©2018
Mike Palmquist
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LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference (Six Months Access)
First Edition| 2018
Mike Palmquist
Table of Contents
Reading Critically and Actively
Using Sources
Annotating a Bibliography
Incorporating Sources in Context
Designing Documents: Digital Writing Tutorials
Documenting Sources
Summary and Paraphrase
LearningCurve: Reading
LearningCurve: Structure
LearningCurve: Parts of Speech
LearningCurve: Subject-Verb Agreement
LearningCurve: Punctuation
Avoiding Plagiarism
Model Student Writing
Writer to Writer Videos
Grammar Girl Podcasts

LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference (Six Months Access)
First Edition| 2018
Mike Palmquist
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Mike Palmquist
Mike Palmquist is Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. Prior to returning to his role as a faculty member in the 2020-’21 academic year, Mike served for fourteen years in various university leadership roles, including founding director of the Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT), director of CSU Online (CSU’s Division of Continuing Education), and Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing.
Mike's work has appeared in journals including College English, College Composition and Communication, ADE Bulletin, Computers and Composition, Kairos, Written Communication, Writing Program Administration, Marketing Education Review, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. Since 1992, he has coordinated the development of WAC Clearinghouse, a publishing collaborative that provides open-access to more than 125 scholarly books, several academic journals, and a wide range of instructional and professional resources.
Mike is the author of several books, including the textbooks In Conversation, Joining the Conversation: Writing in College and Beyond, The Bedford Researcher, and Designing Writing, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's. He is co-author, with Kate Kiefer, Jake Hartvigsen, and Barbara Godlew, of Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms, published in 1998 by Ablex, and co-author, with Don Zimmerman, of Writing with a Computer, published in 1999 by Allyn and Bacon.
Mike is a member-at-large of the executive board of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, a trustee of the University Press of Colorado, and a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He served as chair of the National Council of Teachers of English College Section Steering Committee and as a member of the NCTE Executive Committee from 2009 to 2011. He served as chair of the NCTE College Section Steering Committee Working Group on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty, whose policy statement and recommendations were endorsed by the NCTE Executive Committee and published on the NCTE website in 2010.
In 2004, Mike was the recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, awarded by Computers and Composition. In 2006, he was presented with the Outstanding Technology Innovator by the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication. He was named a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in 2000.

LaunchPad Solo for Research and Reference (Six Months Access)
First Edition| 2018
Mike Palmquist
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