• a profile on African-American ballerina Misty Copeland (Writing to Inform)
• a Rolling Stone music review (Writing to Evaluate)
• a literacy narrative showing one writer’s development from almost dropping out of high school to award-winning novelist (Writing to Reflect)
• a student-written proposal for a campus bike share (Writing to Solve Problems)

Expanded Assessment Options and new Activities in LaunchPad In addition to the Genre Talk activities mentioned above, LaunchPad for Joining the Conversation also includes customizable, autoscored reading quizzes for every reading selection; diagnostic quizzes; an expanded set of LearningCurve adaptive quizzing activities on grammar, argument, source documentation, and other topics; and Exercise Central, a bank of searchable and customizable grammar, punctuation, style, writing, and research exercises

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