Welcome to the StudySpace

The structure of this site uses contemporary pedagogical techniques to help you strengthen your study habits. The site is organized into 3 parts: Organize, Learn and Connect.

Organize:

This material will help you prepare to tackle the chapter material by getting you to think energetically before you read the chapter.  Then when you do open your book you will engage it more effectively.

• Chapter Study Plan guides you as you work your way through the online materials.
• Chapter Outlines give an overview of the issues the chapter will explore.
• Quiz+ allows you to learn from your mistakes with customized study plans based upon your answers to quiz questions.

Learn:

These exercises help you master what you've read in the chapter.

• The "We the People, 7e" ebook provides a low-cost reading alternative, available online or in downloadable format.
• Chapter Reviews allow you to quickly review what you have read and help you identify the most important concepts in each chapter.
• Vocabulary Flashcards test your knowledge of important terms and concepts.

Connect:

Here you are asked to apply what you learned from the chapter and to make connections between concepts you have mastered.

• Interactive Politics simulations offer hands-on experience in how government works through entertaining role-playing games.
• You Decide exercises, following the topics found in the Policy Debate boxes for each chapter, use media sources to get you to think critically about important contemporary issues.
• Questions for Discussion and Thought are provocative questions which can be used for essay assignments.
• What Government Does exercises help you to see how the day-to-day activities of government affect you personally.
• Get Involved exercises encourage participation in politics by showing you ways in which your participation can directly affect political and policy decisions.
• Video Exercises provide you with the opportunity to view current and historic video footage of events and ideas in American politics.
• Mobilize to participate in American politics with Mobilize.org.

Links

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About W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company has been independent since its founding in 1923, when William Warder Norton and Margaret D. Norton first published lectures delivered at the People's Institute, the adult education division of New York City's Cooper Union. The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the Institute, publishing books by celebrated academics from America and abroad. By mid-century, the two major pillars of Norton's publishing program—trade books and college texts—were firmly established. In the 1950s, the Norton family transferred control of the company to its employees, and today—with a staff of 400 and a comparable number of trade, college, and professional titles published each year—W. W. Norton & Company stands as the largest and oldest publishing house owned wholly by its employees.