P
page setup
pagination
papers. See sample student writing
paragraph patterns. See paragraphs; patterns of organization
paragraphs. See also focus; patterns of organization; thesis
transitions
parallelism
parameters
paraphrases
in APA papers
in Chicago papers
in MLA papers
multilingual/
parentheses
parenthetical (in-text) citations
directory to APA in-text citation models
directory to MLA in-text citation models
parenthetical elements
participation in class
participial phrases
dangling
participles (-ing and -ed forms)
past participles (walked, driven)
present participles (hiking, reading)
parts of speech
passed, past
passive voice
avoiding
wordy sentences
past, passed
past participles (-ed forms). See participles
past tense
patchwriting, avoiding
pathos (emotional appeals)
patterns of organization (paragraph). See also Paragraphs
PDF documents
peer reviewers
percent, per cent, percentage
perfect tenses
periodicals. See also articles in periodicals
capitalizing titles
italicizing titles
periods
personal communication, citing
personal pronouns
personal titles
person and number
persons, names of. See nouns
perspective, in multimodal compositions
persuasive writing. See argument papers
phenomena
photographs, using in document. See also visuals
phrasal verbs (put up with, stamp out)
phrases. See also phrases, types of
as sentence fragments
phrases, types of. See also Phrases
place of publication
places, names of. See nouns
plagiarism, avoiding
borrowed language
planning a document
planning a multimodal project
planning an essay
assessing the writing situation
plan to do (not on doing)
platform, for online course
plays
plot
plurals
plus
citing
poems
point of view
portfolio
course portfolio
possessive case
possessive pronouns
poster presentation
posting, in online course
precede, proceed
PowerPoint slides. See slide show presentation
predicate. See verbs
predicate adjective (subject complement)
predicate noun (subject complement)
predicates
sentence fragments
preferable to (not than)
prefixes
prepositional phrases
prepositions
adjective + preposition combinations
at, on, in to show time and place
verb + preposition combinations
presentation software. See slide show
present participles (-ing forms). See participles
present perfect tense
present tense
subject-verb agreement
previewing
prewriting strategies
primary sources
on the Web
principal, principle
prior to (not than)
proceed, precede
process, of writing an essay
outlining
revising
process, research
professional documents. See business writing
profile, of audience for multimodal project
prompts
pronoun-antecedent agreement
pronoun case (I, me, she, her, etc.)
possessive (my, your, his, her, its, our, their)
pronoun reference
who (not that, which) for persons
pronouns. See also pronoun case; pronoun reference; pronouns, types of
agreement of verbs with
agreement with antecedent. See pronoun-antecedent agreement
pronouns, types of
pronoun use
proof. See evidence
proper nouns
proposal
publication information, needed for citations
APA style
Chicago style
MLA style
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
public service announcements (PSAs)
publisher names
publishing a multimodal project
punctuation
purpose in multimodal projects
purpose in writing
assignments