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/ESL challenges with

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