Using active and passive voice
Using active and passive voice appropriately
Understanding apostrophes
Using apostrophes to signal possessive case
Using apostrophes to signal contractions
Using guidelines for apostrophes with plurals
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Thinking critically about argument
Identifying fallacies
Formulating a working thesis
Finding good reasons (TO BE DELETED)
Making ethical appeals
Making logical appeals
Making emotional appeals
Using count and noncount nouns
Using determiners
Using articles
Capitalizing proper nouns and proper adjectives
Capitalizing titles of works
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Identifying comma splices and fused sentences
Separating the clauses into two sentences
Linking the clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction
Linking the clauses with a semicolon
Recasting one independent clause as a dependent clause
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Using commas after introductory elements
Using commas in compound sentences
Using commas with nonrestrictive elements
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Relating equal ideas with coordination
Emphasizing main ideas with subordination
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Previewing a text
Reading and annotating a text
Analyzing and reflecting on a text
Determining whether a statement can be argued
Evaluating usefulness and credibility
Reading and interpreting sources
Differentiating kinds of sources
Evaluating usefulness and credibility
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Working with quotations
Paraphrasing
Summarizing
Knowing which sources to acknowledge
Creating APA in-text citations
(TO BE DELETED) Differentiating kinds of sources
(TO BE DELETED) Evaluating usefulness and credibility
(TO BE DELETED) Quick Help: Deciding to quote, paraphrase, or summarize
(TO BE DELETED) Working with quotations
(TO BE DELETED) Paraphrasing
(TO BE DELETED) Summarizing
(TO BE DELETED) Knowing which sources to acknowledge
Creating MLA in-text citations
Adapting structures and phrases from a genre without plagiarizing
Maintaining academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism
Identifying fragments
Revising phrase fragments
Revising compound-predicate fragments
Revising dependent-clause fragments
Revising misplaced modifiers
Revising disruptive modifiers
Revising dangling modifiers
Editing for misplaced or dangling modifiers
Nouns
Pronouns
Understanding pronoun case
Following spelling rules
Making items in a series parallel
Using parallel structures to pair ideas
Including all necessary words
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Prepositions
Conjunctions
Prepositional phrases
(TO BE DELETED) Understanding pronoun case
Using who, whoever, whom, and whomever
Considering case in compound structures
Using we or us before a noun
Making pronouns agree with antecedents
Revising ambiguous pronoun references
Revising vague use of it, this, that, and which
Using who, which, or that to refer to people
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Using quotation marks to signal direct quotations
Using quotation marks to signal titles and definitions
Using quotation marks with other punctuation
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Using semicolons with independent clauses
Using semicolons to separate items in a series
Avoiding misused or overused semicolons
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The basic grammar of sentences
Subjects
Clauses
Using adjectives ending in -ed and -ing
Putting adjectives in order
(TO BE DELETED) Revising misplaced modifiers
Quick Help: Basic sentence patterns
Revising shifts in tense
Revising shifts in mood
Revising shifts in person and number
Revising shifts between direct and indirect discourse
Understanding subject-verb agreement
Making separated subjects and verbs agree
Making verbs agree with compound subjects
Making verbs agree with following subjects
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Writing unified paragraphs
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Using appropriate verb forms
Forming verb phrases
Understanding regular and irregular verbs
Using lay and lie, sit and set, raise and rise
Indicating verb tenses
Sequencing verb tenses
Using mood and forming conditional sentences
(TO BE DELETED) Forming verb phrases
(TO BE DELETED) Indicating verb tenses
Using active and passive voice
(TO BE DELETED) Using mood and forming conditional sentences
Phrases
Learning word roots
Recognizing prefixes and suffixes
Understanding vocabulary in context
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Eliminating unnecessary words
Simplifying sentence structure
(TO BE DELETED) Using active and passive voice appropriately
Avoiding assumptions about gender
Choosing appropriate words for the context
Balancing general and specific language
Using figurative language
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Using prepositions idiomatically
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Using two-word verbs idiomatically
Using words with appropriate connotations
Using italics for titles
Using colons
Adjectives
Adverbs
Predicates
Understanding adjectives and adverbs
Using adjectives after linking verbs
Using adverbs
Comparatives and superlatives
Using nouns as modifiers
Identifying elements of argument
Using sources in an argument
Organizing an argument
Arguing for a purpose
Analyzing audiences
Thinking about your topic and message
Exploring a topic
Considering your purpose and stance as a communicator
Making logical appeals
Avoiding stereotypes and generalizations
Identifying comma splices and fused sentences
Separating the clauses into two sentences
Linking the clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction
Linking the clauses with a semicolon
Recasting one independent clause as a dependent clause
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