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Arts and Humanities

Parkland College

2018

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Active And Passive Voice (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Active And Passive Voice (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional video with downloadable slides distinguishes between passive and active voice and advises when to use them in writing.

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Point Of View (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Point Of View (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout identifies the three types of point of view in writing.

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Conciseness And Clarity, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Conciseness And Clarity, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout offers guidelines for writing in a more concise and clear manner.

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Point Of View (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Point Of View (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional video with downloadable slides identifies the different points of view in writing.

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Singulars And Plurals, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace, Parkland College Center For Academic Succes Jan 2018

Singulars And Plurals, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace, Parkland College Center For Academic Succes

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout provides information on singular and plural nouns and pronouns and the appropriate use of apostrophes when making nouns possessive.

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Verb Tenses (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Verb Tenses (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout highlights verb tense (past, present, and future) and discusses verb tense agreement errors and irregular verbs.

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Active And Passive Voice (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Active And Passive Voice (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout distinguishes the difference between active and passive voice in writing, and suggests using active voice unless instructed otherwise, most notably in scientific writing.

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Agreement (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Agreement (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

No abstract provided.

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Sentence Fragments Ii (Handout), Lori Williams, Sally Wallace, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Sentence Fragments Ii (Handout), Lori Williams, Sally Wallace, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This instructional handout addresses the sentence fragment error and suggests ways to correct it.

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Comma Splices (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Comma Splices (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This instructional handout helps identify the comma splice sentence error and identifies for ways to fix the problem.

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Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick Jan 2018

Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick

Sentence-level Errors

No abstract provided.

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Run-On Sentences And Comma Splices (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Run-On Sentences And Comma Splices (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This video with downloadable slides provides an overview and examples of sentences errors, run-on sentences, comma splices, and fused sentences, suggesting ways to fix them.

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Sentence Fragments I (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Sentence Fragments I (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This instructional handout offers advice on how to correct the sentence fragment error.

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Run-On Sentences (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Run-On Sentences (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

No abstract provided.

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Summaries 2, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Summaries 2, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides information on the different types of summaries and how to write them.

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Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides step-by-step information on using direct quotations.

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Formal Outlines: Analyzing And Argumentative Topic And Outlining An Argument, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Formal Outlines: Analyzing And Argumentative Topic And Outlining An Argument, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides information about analyzing and argumentative topic and provides an outline format for an academic argument.

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Paraphrasing, Summarizing, And Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Paraphrasing, Summarizing, And Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides a chart that compares paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting sources.

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Synthesis Of Research, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Synthesis Of Research, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides information about synthesizing or blending different perspectives together in research writing. It consists of tips and examples of research paragraphs using synthesis.

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Academic Research Papers - Helpful Hints, Lori Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Academic Research Papers - Helpful Hints, Lori Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct an academic research paper.

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Notes On Quotes: Special Circumstances, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Notes On Quotes: Special Circumstances, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides information about managing special circumstances regarding quotation.

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Summaries 1, Lori Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Summaries 1, Lori Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides step-by-step instructions on how to write a summary.

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Annotated Bibliographies, Brian Nudelman, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Annotated Bibliographies, Brian Nudelman, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct an annotated bibliography including an MLA-formatted citation, a summary paragraph, and an evaluation for each source.

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Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides information on quoting sources. It includes deciding between an In-Text Quotation and a Block Quotation, ways to introduce a quotation, using quotation marks, and adding or removing information.

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Paraphrasing Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Paraphrasing Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Research Skills

This handout provides step-by-step instructions on how to paraphrase information from sources.

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Editing Strategies (Handout), Angela Gulick Jan 2018

Editing Strategies (Handout), Angela Gulick

Editing Strategies

This instructional handout provides tips for improving editing skills.

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Editing Strategies (Slides), Angela Gulick Jan 2018

Editing Strategies (Slides), Angela Gulick

Editing Strategies

This series of slides identifies the five most common editing myths and details ways to maximize editing effectiveness

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