Welcome
Video Tutorials
What’s in a handbook?
How to find what you need in your handbook
How to use handbook documentation guidelines
Analysis Activites
Analyze evidence in Benjy Mercer-Golden's argument
Analyze formal reflection in James Kung's cover letter
Analyze informal reflection in Thanh Nguyen's blog post
Analyze Shuqiao Song's genre choices
Practice peer review with Emily Lesk's draft
Exercises
Adjectives and adverbs
Coordination and subordination
End punctuation
Hyphens
Prepositions
Quotation marks
Research: Avoiding plagiarism
Avoiding plagiarism (MLA style)
Avoiding plagiarism (APA style)
Avoiding plagiarism (Chicago style)
Avoiding plagiarism (CSE style)
Research: evaluating sources
Research: Integrating sources
Integrating sources (MLA style)
Integrating sources (APA style)
Research: Summarizing sources
Summarizing sources (MLA style)
Summarizing sources (APA style)
Semicolons
Verb tense shifts
Word choice
LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing
Active and passive Voice
Apostrophes
Capital letters
Commas
Comma splices and fused sentences
For multilingual writers: Nouns and noun phrases
For multilingual writers: Sentence structure
For multilingual writers: Verbs and verb phrases
Parallelism
Pronouns
Sentence fragments
Subject-verb agreement
Verbs
Student Writing
APA-style literature review, Tawnya Redding
Argument project, Benjy Mercer-Golden
Chicago-style project, Amanda Rinder
CSE-style literature review, Joanna Hays
Critical analysis, Shuqiao Song
Early draft of essay, Emily Lesk
Final draft of essay, Emily Lesk
MLA-style research project, David Craig
Multimedia presentation, Shuqiao Song
Pitch package, Deborah Jane and Jamie Burke
Reflective blog post, Thanh Nguyen
Reflective cover letter, James Kung
Synthesis project, Caroline Warner
TOP TWENTY EDITING PRACTICE
“Thinking Globally by Eating Locally”
“Plagiarism in the Age of the Internet”
VIDEOS
“Brain mapping”, Thanh Nguyen
“Correctness in context”, Yishi Chen, Matteo Cuervels, Rachel Quarta, Apeksha Vanjani, William Murray, and Jamie Bridgewater
“Developing a sense of audience”, David Sherman, Luisa Matalucci, Yishi Chen, John Garry, Liz McElligott, Ashley Harris, Apeksha Vanjani, William Murray, and Isaias Lima
“It’s hard to delete things”, Shuqiao Song
“Lessons from being a peer reviewer”, Halle Edwards and Thanh Nguyen
“Lessons from informal writing”, Halle Edwards and Benjy Mercer-Golden
“Lessons from peer review”, Benjy Mercer-Golden
“Pay attention to what you’re interested in”, Shuqiao Song
“Presentation is performance”, Shuqiao Song
“Researching something exciting”, Cyana Chilton
“Revision Happens”, Ashley Harris, Matteo Cuervels, Ayadhiri Diaz, Keith Mackler, Rachel Ramirez, and William Murray
“Working with other people”, Halle Edwards and Brandon Ly
“Writing for the real world”, Shuqiao Song
“Writing processes”, David Sherman, Yishi Chen, Apeksha Vanjani, Rachel Quarta, Jamie Bridgewater, Rachel Ramirez, and William Murray
“You just have to start”, Thanh Nguyen
“You want them to hear you”, Shuqiao Song