The Writing Process | |
Getting Started and Finding a Focus | |
Organizing Ideas | |
Revising and Editing | |
Writing an Argument | |
Exams, Literature, Oral Reports, Service Writing, Lab Reports | |
Doing Research/Evaluating Sources | |
Research Basics | |
What is research? | |
Writing a research paper | |
Research papers in the disciplines | |
Searching for Sources | |
Merger of library/Web | |
Basic reference works | |
Research resources in 24 subject areas | |
Searching for sources in print | |
Searching for sources online | |
Search engines | |
Keyword searches | |
A sample search | |
Evaluating Sources | |
Read critically | |
Recognize a scholarly article | |
Evaluate works originating in print | |
Evaluate sources originating on the Internet | |
Recording and Acknowledging Sources | |
Keep track of sources | |
Avoid plagiarism | |
Notetaking | |
Summary, paraphrase, and quotation | |
Know what to cite | |
Engage and synthesize | |
Integrating Sources | |
Get mileage from sources | |
Introduce source material | |
What, when, how to quote | |
Fit a quotation in your sentence | |
Checklist: Using quotation | |
Boundaries of a citation | |
MLA Documentation | |
Citing Sources | |
List of Works Cited | |
Sample Paper | |
APA, CBE, Chicago, and CGOS Documentation | |
APA: Citing Sources | |
APA: List of References | |
APA Sample Paper | |
CBE Style | |
Chicago Style | |
CGOS | |
Technology: For Communication, Document Design, and Work | |
Writing for online readers | |
E-mail style | |
Netiquette | |
Online addresses | |
Attachments | |
Online Discussions | |
E-mail discussion lists | |
Usenet groups, Web forums, bulletin boards | |
Chat rooms, MOOs, MUDs | |
Distance learning | |
Web Site Design | |
The nature of hypertext | |
Web site design tools | |
Planning a web site | |
For Web site design: tips | |
Useful resources | |
Sample Web sites | |
Design Features | |
Word processing tools | |
Typefaces | |
Color | |
Headings | |
Lists | |
Visuals | |
Tables | |
Charts and graphs | |
Illustrations, graphics | |
Essay Formats | |
Page or screen | |
Guidelines: college essays | |
Title and identification | |
Portfolio presentation | |
Resumes, Letters | |
Business Letters | |
PowerPoint | |
Style/Five C''s of Style | |
First C: Cut | |
Second C: Check for Action | |
Third C: Connect | |
Fourth C: Commit | |
Fifth C: Choose Your Words | |
Sentence Variety | |
Writers'' Voices | |
Style Tips | |
Common Sentence Problems | |
Top 10 Sentence Problems/Grammar Review | |
Top 10 problems | |
Parts of speech | |
Common sentence patterns | |
Phrases | |
Clauses | |
Sentence Fragments | |
Phrases | |
Dependent clauses | |
Missing verb | |
Missing subject | |
Part of compound predicate | |
Intentional use | |
Run-ons and Comma Splices | |
Identifying | |
Correcting | |
Sentence Snarls | |
Fuzzy syntax | |
Misplaced modifiers | |
Dangling modifiers | |
Shifts | |
Faulty predication | |
Definitions and reasons | |
Adverb clause as subject | |
Omitted words | |
Restated subjects | |
Faulty parallelism | |
Verbs | |
Verb forms | |
Verbs commonly confused | |
Forms of be | |
Tenses | |
Present tenses | |
Past tenses | |
-ed endings | |
Tense shifts | |
Indirect quotations | |
Conditional sentences | |
Passive Voice | |
When to use | |
How to form | |
Who''s doing what? | |
As connector | |
Overuse | |
Subject-Verb Agreement | |
Basic principles | |
Intervening words | |
Linking verb, subject, and complement | |
Subject after verb | |
Tricky singular subjects | |
Collective nouns | |
Compound subjects | |
Indefinite pronouns and quantity words | |
Demonstrative pronouns and adjectives | |
Possessive pronouns | |
Clauses with what | |
Pronouns | |
Personal pronouns | |
Possessive forms | |
Clear reference | |
Agreement with antecedent | |
Gender bias | |
Consistent point of view | |
Appropriate use of you | |
Intensive and reflexive | |
Who/whom | |
Adjectives/dverbs | |
Correct forms | |
Proper use | |
After linking verbs | |
Compound adjectives | |
Position of adverbs | |
Order of adjectives | |
Double negatives | |
Comparative and superlative forms | |
Faulty comparisons | |
Relative Clauses and Relative Pronouns | |
Appropriate use | |
Agreement of verb | |
Agreement after one of | |
Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses | |
Wth quantity words | |
Clauses with prepositions | |
Tat as relative pronoun | |
Position of relative clause | |
Unnecessary pronoun | |
Were and when | |
Punctuation, Mechanics, Spelling | |
Commas | |
Commas: yes and no | |
With coordinating conjunction/idependent clauses | |
With introductory phrase or clause | |
With nonrestrictive elements | |
With transitions | |
With items in a series | |
With coordinate evaluative adjectives | |
With direct quotations | |
When not to use | |
Special uses | |
Apostrophes | |
Apostrophes: yes/no | |
Tosignal possession | |
With plural nouns | |
In contractions | |
In plurals | |
It''s versus its | |
Quotation Marks | |
Guidelines | |
Punctuation introducing and ending a quotation | |
Dialogue | |
Double and single quotation marks | |
With titles of short works | |
When not to use | |
Semicolons | |
Between two independent clauses | |
With items in a list containing internal commas | |
When not to use | |
Other Punctuation Marks | |
Periods, question marks, exclamation points | |
Colons | |
Dashes | |
Parentheses | |
Brackets | |
Slashes | |
Ellipsis dots | |
Italics/Underlining | |
Titles of long works | |
Transportation | |
Letters, numerals, words | |
Non-English words | |
When not to use | |
Capitalization | |
Proper nouns/adjectives | |
Titles before names | |
Major words in titles | |
After a colon or at beginning of a quotation | |
Abbreviations | |
Titles with people''s names | |
Familiar names | |
Terms used with numbers | |
Common Latin terms | |
When not to abbreviate | |
Plurals of abbreviations | |
Numbers | |
Conventions | |
When to spell out | |
When to use numerals | |
Plurals of numerals | |
Hyphenation | |
With prefixes | |
In compound nouns and compound adjectives | |
In spelled-out numbers | |
At end of a line | |
Online Guidelines | |
Punctuation in URLs | |
Underlining/italics online | |
Capital letters online | |
Hyphens online | |
Asterisks online | |
Spelling | |
Plurals of nouns | |
Doubling consonants | |
Spelling with -y or -i | |
Internal ie or ei | |
Adding a suffix | |
Accents, umlauts, ets | |
For Multilingual/ESL Writers | |
Culture, Language, and Writing | |
Differences/not deficits | |
Language learning | |
Guide to transfer errors | |
Nouns and Articles | |
Categories of nouns | |
Uncountable nouns | |
Basic rules for articles | |
The for a specific reference | |
Proper nouns/articles | |
Verbs and Verbals | |
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