Synopses & Reviews
Aplia's clear, succinct, and engaging instruction and practice help students build the confidence they need to master basic grammar skills with ongoing individualized practice that includes benchmarks for success, clear and consistently structured questions, and engaging multimedia content. Aplia for Grammar enables you to concentrate on the important work of teaching and interacting with students. Time-saving tools such as customizable auto-graded homework assignments with randomized questions help you ensure students' accountability, preparation, and effort. Aplia's assessment analytics track student participation, progress, and performance in real-time graphical reports, and its flexible gradebook tools are compatible with other learning management systems.
Synopsis
APLIA FOR GRAMMAR provides you with engaging online practice, covering key grammar concepts with interactive exercises. Your unique needs will be addressed through Diagnostic Assessments, pinpointing your areas of strength and those where you need the most remediation, and allowing you to focus on the concepts that you most need to address. APLIA FOR GRAMMAR will take you through concepts step-by-step, first practicing the fundamentals of grammar, then moving up to critical thinking skills to understand the rules of writing. A large and randomized pool of questions provides you multiple opportunities to master each concept.
About the Author
Aplia is dedicated to improving students' learning by increasing their effort and engagement with your course. Founded by an instructor for other instructors, Aplia offers students premium, automatically graded assignments with detailed explanations that ensure they put forth effort on a regular basis.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Working on Aplia Assignments. Diagnostic Assessment: Basic Writing Level II. Strategies for Reading. Reading - Based Writing Forms. The Writing Process. Writing the Paragraph. Achieving Coherence. Strengthening Paragraphs with Research. Revising Paragraphs. From Paragraph to Essay - The Beginning of an Essay. From Paragraph to Essay - The Body of the Essay. From Paragraph to Essay - The End of the Essay. The Timed Essay Exam. Illustration. Narration. Description. Process. Definition. Comparison and Contrast. Persuasion. A Review of the Simple Sentence. Nouns. Pronouns. Subject-Verb Agreement - Present Tense Verbs. Past Tense Verbs. The Past Participle. Adjectives and Adverbs. Joining Ideas - Coordination and Subordination. Avoiding Sentence Errors. The Apostrophe. The Comma. Mechanics. Proofreading for Errors in Grammar and Punctuation. Spelling. Homonyms. Revising for Consistency. Revising for Parallelism. Revising for Sentence Variety. Revising for Language Awareness. Revising for Audience Awareness. Review of Revising for Consistency, Parallelism, Sentence Variety, Language Awareness, and Audience Awareness.