Resources

Studying & Time Management

Critical Reading

The Writing Process

Developing a thesis
3.2 Paragraph Structure 
3.3 Sensory Unity 
3.4 Paragraph Coherence 
3.5 Paragraph Development 
3.6 Introductions 
3.7 Conclusions 
3.8 Summaries 

Research Skills

Avoiding plagiarism and copyright infringement
Conducting interviews
Creating a podcast
Designing a storyboard
Designing an infographic
Effective keyword searches
Evaluating sources
MLA format for online and print text
MLA format visual media
MLA document format
Reading graphs and charts
Reading sources efficiently
Synthesizing source notes
Taking notes on sources
Working with images
Working with sources, quotes, paraphrase, summary

Grammar & Style Lab

Absolute phrases
Adjectives and adverbs
Apostrophes
Appositive phrases
Avoiding "you"
Avoiding gender bias
Balanced sentences
Clauses and conjunctions
Colons, semicolons, and dashes
Comma rules
Creating a dominant impression
Dangling and misplaced modifiers
Eliminating wordiness
Fixing run-on sentences
Fragments
General and specific language
Metaphors
Parallel structure
Participial phrases
Prepositional phrases
Pronoun antecedent agreement & pronoun reference
Spatial organization
Subject-verb agreement
Tone
Transitional expressions
Value-added words
Verb tense consistency