Essential Study Partner Overview

A free study partner that engages, investigates, and reinforces what you are learning from your textbook. You'll find the Essential Study Partner to be a complete, interactive student study tool packed with dozens of animations and learning activities. From quizzes to interactive diagrams, you'll find that there has never been a better study partner to ensure the mastery of core concepts. Best of all, it's free with your new textbook purchase.

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1. The unit pop-up menu is accessible at anytime within the program. Clicking on the current unit will bring up a menu of other units available in the program.

2. The topic menu contains an interactive list of the other available topics and their associated sub-topics. Clicking on any of the listings within this menu will open your selection and will show the specific concepts presented within this topic. Clicking any of the concepts will move you to your selection. You can use the UP and DOWN keys to move through the topics. Each sub-topic ends with a quiz for review of the material. These quizzes are the equivalent of "open-book" quizzes where feedback is provided immediately upon the selection of an answer. Multiple attempts are allowed and links back to the content screen where the question was derived from are provided.

3. Along the bottom of the screen you will find various navigational aids. The arrows on the left allow you to page forward and backward through text screens or interactive exercise screens. You can also use the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to perform the same function.
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4. To the right of the arrows is a row of icons that represent the number of screens in a concept. There are three different icons, each representing different functions that a screen in that section will serve. The screen that is currently displayed will highlight yellow and visited ones will be checked.
Esp Image1 The page icon represents a page of informational text.
Film Icon The film icon represents topics and concepts that are animated. These animations will ease you into a better understanding of the most difficult topics.
Esp Image3 The activity icon represents an interactive learning activity.

5. The Search will help you locate specific content in the CD.

6. Help will bring you to the guided help walkthrough.

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Each Unit ends with a Unit Exam. The Unit Exams are the equivalent of "closed-book" exams where a set of 20 questions are randomly drawn from a pool of 75 questions. After the user submits their exam, feedback is provided in the form of a summary of the results with the ability to review questions and the content from which they are derived.

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