As is the case with any good technology, MySkillsLab is improving every day. The Pearson Media Team is committed to providing high quality features and content to help instructors teach and students learn. The changes listed below are the result of the feedback we've received from our users—instructors and students alike. Thank you for being part of our team!
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More research support. Pearson's MySearchLab™ has replaced Research Navigator™. Complete with extensive help on the research process and four databases of credible and reliable source material, MySearchLab ™ helps students quickly and efficiently make the most of their research time. Students now have access to a writing space (“Greenbook”), a bibliography builder, various tutorials and videos on writing, research, and avoiding plagiarism, a comprehensive grammar guide and an online handbook.
Updated Watch animations (Writing). Enhanced Watch animations are now available for all topics, including new animations for Summary Writing and Critical Thinking topics.
Expanded Critical Thinking content (Writing). The Critical Thinking topic now includes additional exercise sets and the new Watch animations mentioned above.
Even more Grammar Apply exercises (Writing). We’ve added interactive Grammar Apply activities to various topics, including more on commas.
2009 MLA updates (Writing). All appropriate content (e.g., research topics) have been updated to reflect the new MLA guidelines.
New Reading Level (Lexile) readings (Reading). Thirty new Lexile reading passages with diagnostics and combined-skills quizzes have been added.
Reading Level (Lexile) practice (Reading). Once a student reaches the highest Lexile level all of the readings at the highest level are made available to them for practice so they can continue to develop their reading skills.
Narrated Overview and Model content (Reading). Audio narrations of the Overview and Model content is now available for all topics and levels.
Additional Practice and Test content (Reading). Additional assessment content is available for the Inference topic. The assessment content has been augmented for the Main Idea and Supporting Details topic.
Comprehensive content review. We continued with our annual content review of Recall, Apply, and Write sets to ensure our content is accurate and effective.
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