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Grammar Directions—the sheet to keep in your notebook and have in class each day.
Links to Literary Resources – probably everything you’ll need – by Mark McGowin from NCSU—wonderful for research Vague Pronoun Reference - ditto - ditto - ditto Pronoun Antecedent Agreement - ditto Active & Passive Voice—Avoid passive voice Consistency—of point of view and of tense More-than-10 Writing Commandments Think Your Grammar Checker and Spelling Checker are all you need? - This paragraph has been spell checked and grammar checked!!! Word says it’s perfect. Elements of Style by Strunk & White A Concise Guide to Style : Punctuation - Apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dashes, ellipses, exclamation point, period, parentheses, hypen, question mark, quotation mark, semicolon, virgule – Short, simple explanations for the use of each! Writing the College Essay – done by someone else, but it has good advice
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples Literary & Rhetoric terms – if you need help defining key terms, use this page and its links A superb, searchable glossary of literary devices AND rhetorical terms
Purdue On-line Writing Lab -A fantastic resource for writers! Their Instructional Handouts are great mini-lessons on grammar and style
Guide to Grammar and Writing -LOVE THIS SITE! Great explanations of punctuation, grammar and stylistic concepts, and little interactive quizzes to check yourself. Common Errors in Usage – by Paul Brians Tools You Need to Master – These 4 links are a witty and irreverent collection of advice and strategies by George Mason writing teacher Jamie Brown Don’t Rehash What Your Reader Already Knows Coherence: Transitions Between Ideas More transitional devices & tips – from Mark Kilmer Weak expletives & how to get rid of them Weak use of passive voice & how to revise it Introductions & Conclusions – good tips from Mrs. Filak Introduction tips – from Mark Kilmer Conclusion tips – from Mark Kilmer – be careful; when he says “new information”, he is not referring to new information that requires proof. You do not want your conclusion to simply rehash what you have already said clearly. Suggestions from Ed Vavra – Pennsylvania College of Technology – just ignore the first paragraph since it has nothing to do with you.
Don’t you dare!! - Be sure to read this!! Want to know what the Bible says about plagiarism? Go here!
Format rubric for early papers [papers due before research paper] Outline format sample fr. MLA Handbook, 1984 Sample of the way your first page should look fr. MLA Handbook, 1984 – This page is a graphic that is too large to put up. You have this in your materials from class. Sorry! Great on-line source—bibliography formats as well as what the parenthetical documentation should be
Redundancies & how to correct them
Journaling Inference: Reading and Writing Ideas As Well As Words – an excellent page to read to get at the kind of journals I want. Interpretation – See this sheet. In your journals, I want interpretation
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