McGraw-Hill Higher Education Offers Online Interactive Learning Solution for English Composition Students

Today's students spend less time reading printed books and newspapers and more time gathering the information they want and need through online sources. To address modern students' lifestyles and learning styles, McGraw-Hill Higher Education today announced the release of The McGraw-Hill Guide Online, an online interactive learning solution for introductory college-level English composition professors and students.

"This comprehensive online learning product was created to appeal to today's digitally inclined students and enable college English composition professors to customize courses to include the content and assignments of their choice, all in a highly interactive online platform," said Steve Debow, president, McGraw-Hill Higher Education Humanities, Social Sciences, and Languages. "The McGraw-Hill Guide Online presents the complex fundamentals of introductory college-level composition in a content-driven digital format that aligns with the way students process information -- online and in real time."

The McGraw-Hill Guide Online is an online adaptation of the content in The McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life, a printed text that helps students to set, achieve, and assess their own writing goals. Using a framework that emphasizes rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, writing processes and knowledge of conventions, the guide is influenced by the Writing Program Administrators Outcomes Statement, a document that the authors helped compose and has influenced writing program goals at colleges and universities throughout the country.

This fully customizable digital learning tool allows professors to pick and choose exactly what content to include or exclude from their course. If instructors feel their students need more or less instruction in a particular area, they can alter the content assigned or available to students in real time to keep students on track with their writing goals. Students in turn can log in and access only the relevant course content for their class.

The McGraw-Hill Guide Online is particularly helpful in addressing the critical need for students' improved writing skills, an educational challenge faced by professors and students across the country. Duane Roen, Gregory R. Glau and Barry M. Maid, authors of The McGraw-Hill Guide and the content provided in the Guide Online, believe that students will inevitably become effective and capable writers once they are able to achieve the fundamental goals treated in the instruction and practiced in the exercises and assignments throughout.

The McGraw-Hill Guide Online includes useful online features that build on the content from the print edition. The digital version uses interactive software that allows students to read and write simultaneously in the same program window, a feature that is particularly useful in composition and writing exercises. This online content also includes a bank of more than 200 quick lessons in short video format. These videos guide students through the

writing process and make a virtual professor available and accessible for common questions at the students' convenience.

  For more information, please visit http://www.mhguideonline.com/.

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