Student and instructor resources that provide long-term support
When students purchase new copies of The Little Seagull Handbook, their access to the resources lasts for four years—because it is a reference tool students keep and use throughout their college career.
Learn more about the resources and try them for yourself below—and reach out to your Norton representative with any questions or requests.
InQuizitive for Writers
With InQuizitive, students practice their writing, editing, and research skills in an interactive, feedback-driven environment. The low-stakes activities are adaptive, so students receive additional practice in the areas where they need more help—making InQuizitive an ideal resource to assign to a class of diverse learners.
- Writing activities cover rhetorical situations, elements of argument, thesis statements, critical reading strategies, and paragraph development.
- Short videos are integrated into several InQuizitive activities.
- Used by 125,000 students in the 2022–2023 school year.
Videos
Animated, two-to-three-minute videos reinforce essential writing topics, rhetorical principles, and genres.
- Topics include writing thesis statements across genres, paragraph development, elements of argument, understanding in-text documentation, literacy narratives, and many more.
- Videos are available in the ebook, through a campus learning management system, and in new InQuizitive activities.
Interactive Ebook
The digital version is as simple to navigate as the print one.
- Students can take notes, highlight, bookmark, search, and read offline.
- Norton Ebooks can be viewed on all computers and mobile devices.
- References to InQuizitive for Writers show students where to access additional practice.
Instructor Training Module
Developmental reading and writing specialist Emily Suh (Texas State University) offers strategies for supporting developing writers and language learning students—useful for entire departments, new graduate student trainings, and individuals.
Little Teaching Tips for the Little Seagull
This brief PDF guide provides tips for using The Little Seagull Handbook in class activities, incorporating InQuizitive assignments into your course, and teaching students how to use the handbook on their own.
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