What Is the NEW MyLiteratureLab?

The NEW MyLiteratureLab gives you and your students access to a wealth of online resources that bring literature to life as well as writing and research resources that help students succeed. You will save time by managing assignments and grading in one convenient place, and your students will benefit from having 24/7 access to terrific resources.

Resources. The Resource area contains instruction, multimedia tutorials and exercises for a wide array of literature, writing, grammar and research topics. Students can use this area on their own for self-study or instructors can point students to specific tools. Here is a sampling of the features in each section:

Literature: Longman Lectures, Interactive Readings and Timelines, ‘Writers on Writing” videos, glossaries of literary terms, literary element resources, and robust activities.
Writing: Instruction in the writing process, writing about literature, the effective use of sources, and a library of sample papers.
Grammar: Diagnostics, video tutorials and thousands of exercise sets.
Research: Avoiding plagiarism and evaluating sources tutorials, citation diagnostics and exercise sets, step-by-step instruction in writing a literary research paper, samples, and much more.

e-Anthology. Two hundred additional selections are available with this interactive e-Anthology, which is organized by genre and alphabetized within each genre. In addition to providing more selections, the e-Anthology is an excellent study aid: students can search, highlight, and take notes.

Longman Lectures. Narrated by our textbook authors, these tutorials include background information about the author and work, and a multimedia reading to engage students. The students are then walked through interpreting the work and given instruction in writing about it.

Interactive Readings. For a variety of key works, students can click on highlighted sections of text to read helpful explanations and see critical thinking questions. These aids help to guide their reading and increase their understanding of the work.

Writers on Writing. Students will gain inspiration for their own writing from exclusive interviews with noted contemporary authors, including Rita Dove and Alberto Rios, as each discusses practicing the craft of writing.

Diagnostics and Study Plan. Students can improve their grammar skills outside of classroom time through MyLiteratureLab’s grammar diagnostics, which produce personalized study plans. The study plan links students to multimedia instruction in a given topic and practice opportunities. Instructors and students can track progress via the Gradebook.

Composing. This dynamic space for drafting and revising, includes a “Writer’s Toolkit” that provides students with writing, grammar, research, and online tutoring help in one convenient place. With all of this online help, students are likely to turn in better papers. They will also be saving paper!

Commenting. MyLiteratureLab offers two flexible commenting tools that will reduce the amount of time spent grading papers: pre-loaded “Common Error” comments on key grammar topics and “My Comments,” which enables instructors to save the comments they make over and over.

Peer Review. Students can also comment on each other’s papers within MyLiteratureLab, making peer review projects easier to execute – and paperless.

Gradebook. Built specifically for courses with a heavy writing component, the MyLiteratureLab Gradebook makes it easy to capture, assess, and manage student submissions and practice results.