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Welcome. Course name Faculty name. YOUR COURSE MATERIALS. Irvin B. Tucker: Economics for Today, 5e. You will… be tested receive homework assignments have reading assignments …from these materials. WHY DO I NEED THE BOOK?.

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  1. Welcome Course name Faculty name

  2. YOUR COURSE MATERIALS • Irvin B. Tucker: • Economics for Today, 5e. • You will… • be tested • receive homework assignments • have reading assignments • …from these materials

  3. WHY DO I NEED THE BOOK? • Nine in ten professors (90%) say that students would do better if they made greater user of the assigned textbook. • Students’ pass rates, retention rates and grades improve when they employ supplemental materials in addition to their textbooks. • Zogby International, 2006

  4. GET THE GRADE RESOURCES! • Aplia • ThomsonNOW • Study Guide • Economic Learning Path Instant Access Code

  5. FOUR TOOLS TO HELP YOU SUCCEED! • Tutorials • Interactive tutorials if you need additional help with math, graphs, and statistics. • Problem Sets • Automatically graded homework problems with interactive graphing tools and built in feedback that correspond to your textbook. • Online Experiments • Real time, online market interactions that help you actively learn key economic concepts (and are also a lot of fun). • News Analyses • Regularly updated articles focused on core economics concepts with auto-graded problems, an article summary, and discussion questions

  6. SELF-PACED TUTORIALS THAT YOU CAN DO ON YOUR OWN HELP YOU GET UP TO SPEED.

  7. BOTH PRACTICE AND GRADED ASSIGNMENTS HELP YOU GRASP THE CONCEPTS

  8. Online experiments allow you to experience how real economic markets work. And are a lot of fun!

  9. NEWS ANALYSIS INTRODUCES YOU TO INTERESTING ARTICLES ABOUT EVERY-DAY ECONOMICS

  10. APLIA…YOU HAVE CHOICES ON WHAT AND WHERE TO BUY • The Aplia program is a Required component of your course. Embedded within every Aplia program is a digital edition of your South-Western Textbook. We call this Program + Digital text the Integrated Textbook Solution (ITS). • If you choose to save money by only buying the ITS, you will have everything you need for the course, Aplia plus electronic access to your textbook material. • If you decide that you want to have the physical textbook as well, you can buy a bundle which includes your physical textbook + ITS. • Note: If you buy only the ITS and later decide that you also want a copy of the physical textbook, you can buy a physical textbook directly from Aplia at a discounted price.

  11. Economics Learning Path Videos for Tucker featuring Steven Tomlinson. Brief (approx 10 minutes) multimedia video lectures accompany almost every section of Tucker giving you explanations and examples that you can play over and over again.

  12. LEARNING PATH VIDEO INSTANT ACCESS Tucker 5e • When there is a concept that you “just don’t get” • When you would like to see a topic explained “just once more” before an exam or quiz. Learning Path video access featuring Steven Tomlinson is available for this text. Its like office hours 24/7! ISBN for Video Access: 0324561210

  13. ANYTHING TO HELP STUDENTS WITHOUT COMPUTERS? • Study Guide • includes such student-friendly features as the chapter in a nutshell descriptions, key concepts review, learning objectives, fill-in-the-blank questions, step-by-step interpretation of the graph boxes, multiple-choice questions, true-false questions, and crossword puzzles. • The study guide is available at www.thomsonedu.com/economics/tucker ISBN for Printed Study Guide: 0324359497

  14. YOU HAVE CHOICES OF HOW TO BUY THE BOOK! Purchase textbooks in the format and at the price that is right for you. Print Options NEWprint textbooks at up to 25%off, shipped free! Digital Options Electronic texts up to 50% off Individual chapters for as little as $1.99 Study Tools Study Guides, Online Homework Assistance, Audio Content, and more!

  15. STUDENTS…PLEASE READ If your textbook doesn’t already come with the helpful study aids we’ve discussed, go to your local college bookstore or go on-line to the iChapters.com.

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