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Planning/Starting to Write
Effective Writing
- Adding Emphasis: web page or PDF
- Argument/Persuasion: Logic in Argumentative Writing
- Logical Vocabulary: web page or PDF
- Logical Vocabulary Exercise: web page or PDF
- Reaching Logical Conclusions: web page or PDF
- Reaching Logical Conclusions Exercise: web page or PDF
- Fallacies: web page or PDF
- Fallacies Exercise: web page or PDF
- Improprieties: web page or PDF
- Logical Reasoning Exercise: web page or PDF
- Coherence: web page or PDF
- Conciseness: Methods of Eliminating Wordiness: web page or PDF
- Coping with Writing Anxiety : web page or PDF
- Developing an Outline: web page or PDF
- Sample Outline: web page or PDF
- Non-Sexist Language: web page or PDF
- Overcoming Writer’s Block: web page or PDF
- The Paragraph: web page or PDF
- Paragraphing: web page or PDF
- Sentence Variety: web page or PDF
- Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity: web page or PDF
- Transitional Devices (Connecting Words): web page or PDF
- Using Metaphors in Creative Writing: web page or PDF
- Writing a Thesis Statement: web page or PDF
- Writing with Computers: web page or PDF
Revising/Editing/Proofreading
- Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Revision: web page or PDF
- Higher Order Concerns (HOCs) and Lower Order Concerns (LOCs): web page or PDF
- Proofreading for Commas : web page or PDF
- Proofreading Strategies: web page or PDF
- Proofreading Your Paper: web page or PDF
- Steps in Editing Your Papers: web page or PDF
Types/Genres of Writing
- Annotated Bibliographies: web page or PDF
- Annotated Bibliographies Example: web page or PDF
- Literary Terms: web page or PDF
- Image in Poetry: web page or PDF
- Pattern and Variation in Poetry: web page or PDF
- Sound and Meter in Poetry : web page or PDF
- Using Metaphors in Creative Writing: web page or PDF
- Writing a Thesis Statement: web page or PDF
- Writing about Fiction: web page or PDF
- Writing about Poetry: web page or PDF
- Writing Definitions: web page or PDF
- Writing Description: web page or PDF
- Writing Essay Exams: web page or PDF
- Writing about Literature: Some Helpful Things To Know: web page or PDF
Research Skills and Resources
Writing Research Papers
Sentence Punctuation
- Sentence Punctuation Patterns: web page or PDF
- Run-ons, Comma splices, and Fused Sentences: web page or PDF
Apostrophes
Commas
- Commas after Introductions : web page or PDF
- Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences : web page or PDF
- Commas with Non-essential Elements, with 3 exercises and answer keys: web page or PDF
- Proofreading for Commas: web page or PDF
- Using Commas: web page or PDF
Hyphens
Other punctuation
- Brief Overview of Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics : web page or PDF
Quotation Marks
Sentence Parts, Patterns, and Variety
- Appositives : web page or PDF
- Independent and Dependent Clauses (definitions): web page or PDF
- Some Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity: web page or PDF
Sentence Errors
- Run-ons, Comma splices, and Fused Sentences: web page or PDF
- Sentence fragments: web page or PDF
- Making Subjects and Verbs Agree: web page or PDF
Sentence Punctuation
Clauses and Phrases
Dangling Modifiers
Parallel Structure
Active and Passive Voice in Verbs
Nouns
- Count and NonCount Nouns (with Plurals, Articles, and Quantity Words): web page or PDF
- Count and NonCount Nouns (with Articles and Adjectives): web page or PDF
Pronouns
Verbs
- Active and Passive Voice: web page or PDF
- Irregular Verbs: web page or PDF
- Sequence of Tenses: web page or PDF
- Verb Tense Consistency: web page or PDF
- Two-Part (Phrasal) Verbs- (Idioms): web page or PDF
- Verb Tenses: web page or PDF
- Verbs with Helpers: web page or PDF
- Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives: web page or PDF
- Verbs: Voice and Mood: web page or PDF
Adjectives and adverbs
- A or An? : web page or PDF
- Adjective or Adverb?: web page or PDF
- Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns: web page or PDF
- The Use and Non-use of Articles: web page or PDF
Prepositions
General resume advice
- Resume design: web page or PDF
- Sample Resume: web page or PDF
- Scannable Resumes: web page or PDF
- Skills List: web page or PDF
- Management Resumes: web page or PDF
- Your Resume
Specific sections of the resume
- Resume Sections combined handout: web page or PDF
- Resume sections individualized handouts and exercises
- Overview: web page or PDF
- Name and Address: web page or PDF
- Objective Statements: web page or PDF
- Objective Statements Exercise: web page or PDF
- Education: web page or PDF
- Education Section Exercise: web page or PDF
- Work Experience: web page or PDF
- Experience Section Exercise: web page or PDF
- Activities and Honors: web page or PDF
- Activities and Honors Section Exercise: web page or PDF
- References: web page or PDF
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