Presented in a step-by-step process that guides you through exploring tutorials, annotating media, and responding to questions designed to help you make connections in preparation for paper-length writing assignments, these projects are crafted to help you with your analytical and synthesis skills.

Including a range of rhetorical to literary concepts, interactive tutorials help you as you draft your English papers. Over 150 topics are covered using a variety of resources, including brief instruction, animated examples, media annotations, and interactive activities.

Your resource for conducting research and properly documenting sources, the Guide to Research includes animations, interactive exercises, and student paper workshops -- as well as desktop access to Infotrac College Edition, which includes links to over 200 million articles, 6,000 journals and over 20 years of content.

Animations, interactive exercises, and student-paper workshops related to grammar and writing assist you in revising and editing your papers correctly.

All of the media available in English21 - including audio and video clips, stories, poems, plays, essays, photographs, fine art, and advertisements - is experienced through a Thomson Wadsworth unique notetaking tool, the Explicator, in order to help you annotate works and generate evidence for your papers.