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SPARKPLUG
Sparkplug is designed to help students research communication issues in today's culture. The pdf provides bibliographies on various communication topics, up-to-date lists of articles from communication journals, and clusters of critical references in in-text citations from academic books on communication. Registered students can submit assignments that are designed to familiarize them with the academic venues for research. Assignments are evaluated on a pass/fail scale (a pass is a 95% or above) or, if requested, on a traditional grading scale (A, B, C, or D). Instructors can receive a list of the grades. Pdf format, 76 pp. Click here to learn more.

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FIREFLY

Firefly is designed to help students develop a sense of literary style. In each of Firefly's three chapters, models are provided for students to imitate. These models include poems from famous poets, prose passages from literary authors known for a distinct style, and short genre pieces. Registered students are asked to send in poems and prose pieces imitating models of their choice. Submissions receive two sets of evaluations: one for meeting the assignments' requirements and one for artistic merit. The best work is posted in Firefly's end-of-year online issue. Instructors can receive a list of the evaluations. Pdf format, 70 pp. Click here to learn more.

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LAUREL LEAF

Written as a self tutorial, Laurel Leaf is a poetry-instruction packet containing 45 terms of scansion and literary analysis. Each term has its own page for explanation and and examples. Besides the terms, this pdf includes a collection of over 70 best-loved lyric poems in American and British literature. Registered students can receive up to three term tests, which are graded on a scale from 1 to 10 and assigned a percentage score. Instructors can receive a list of the grades. Registered students can also submit creative work for evaluation. The best of such work is posted in Firefly's end-of-year online issue (see above). Pdf format, 110 pp. Click here to learn more.

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STINGRAY

Written as a self-tutorial, Stingray is designed to help students learn to summarize, paraphrase, and quote published academic work. Emphasis is also placed on topic formation, thesis declaration, and argumentative technique to form a niche for students' own voices in the existing critical conversations. Both MLA and APA models for in-text citation and bibliographic entries are provided. Registered students can take up to three tests (in MLA, APA, or a mix of both) covering summary, paraphrasing, quotation mechanics (brackets and ellipses), and documentation. Instructors can receive a list of the grades. Pdf format, 140 pp. Click here to learn more.

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SWORDFISH

Written as a self-tutorial, Swordfish is a six-chapter manual on sentence-boundary mechanics. While students learn parts-of-speech along the way, the main goal is simply to teach students how to recognize fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences in order to eliminate them from their writing. Swordfish begins at the basic step of recognizing main verbs, and then provided formulas for finding the elements of five sentence patterns. Registered students can take up to three cumulative tests, which are graded on a scale from 1 to 10 and assigned a percentage score. Instructors can receive a list of the grades. Pdf format, 200 pp. Click here to learn more.

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