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Contents
- Composing
- Types of Writing Styles
- Understanding the Assignment
- Assessing the Writing Situation
- Test Your Thesis
- Constructing an Outline
- Checklist: Planning a Document
- Transitions
- Visuals Help You Communicate
- Academic writing
- Active Reading
- Analyzing a Text
- Rhetorical Concepts
- Academic Writing: Point of View
- Academic Writing: Verb Tense
- How to: Write a Summary
- Countering Opposing Arguments
- Putting Inductive Reasoning to the Test
- Most Common Evidence Used by Authors
- Researching
- Keyword Searching: Do it Better!
- Is this source scholarly?
- Evaluating Sources
- Evaluating Web Sources
- What Do You Need for a Citation?
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- MLA/APA/CMS
- What is MLA, APA, and CMS?
- MLA Signal Phrases
- MLA Citation Examples
- APA Signal Phrases
- APA Citation Examples
- CMS Signal Phrases
- Basic Grammar
- Introducing... Subordinate Clauses!
- Grammatical Sentences
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Should You Use –s (or –es) for a Present-Tense Verb?
- Is Your Sentence a Fragment?
- Is Your Sentence a Run-On?
- Does Your Sentence Have a Dangling Modifier?
- Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges
- Verb Forms: The Basics
- Verb Tenses: Active Voice
- Verb Tenses: Passive Voice
- The Meaning of Modals
- Nouns
- Articles for Common Nouns
- Non-count Nouns
- Geography and ‘The’
- How to Order Cumulative Adjectives
- Three Magic Words: At, On, and In
- Combo Time! – Adjectives & Prepositions
- Combo Time! – Verbs & Prepositions
- Revising
- A strategy for analyzing and revising a first draft
- Checklist: Revision
- How to: Be a Constructive Peer Reviewer
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