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Writing A Professional Email, Amber Landis, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Writing A Professional Email, Amber Landis, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct a professional email by listing dos and don'ts of formatting and outlining components.


Résumé Tips, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Résumé Tips, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides tips on writing résumés.


Financial Aid Appeal Letters, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Financial Aid Appeal Letters, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct a letter to the Financial Aid Appeal Committee. It consists of tips and a "past, present, and future" outline.


Elements Of A Résumé, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Elements Of A Résumé, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct a Résumé by describing the sections and elements that are expected or optional.


Job Application Letter And Résumé Sample 1, Ruijie Zhao, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Job Application Letter And Résumé Sample 1, Ruijie Zhao, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides a sample of a job application letter and résumé to help students construct their own.


Las 189 Im Content Guide, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Las 189 Im Content Guide, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

LAS 189 Materials

This is an instructional handout outlines the format required for an inquiry-based writing project, for LAS 189, Introduction to Liberal Arts, at Parkland College.


Las 189 Sample Im, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Las 189 Sample Im, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

LAS 189 Materials

This is an instructional handout is an example of an inquiry-based writing project for LAS 189, Introduction to Liberal Arts, at Parkland College.


Essay Checklist: Burning Questions To Ask Before Typing The Final Draft (Handout), Parkland College Center For Academic Success, Sally Wallace, Lori Williams Jan 2018

Essay Checklist: Burning Questions To Ask Before Typing The Final Draft (Handout), Parkland College Center For Academic Success, Sally Wallace, Lori Williams

Academic Essay Writing

This instructional handout is a checklist to review before turning in an academic essay.


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

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

Academic Essay Writing

This handout provides information and guidance to help compose a conclusion to an academic essay.


Writing Process Tip Sheet (Handout), Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Writing Process Tip Sheet (Handout), Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Academic Essay Writing

This handout outlines some basic strategies to help writers focus on the invention, arrangement, and style of an academic essay.


Introductions And Thesis Statements (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Introductions And Thesis Statements (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Academic Essay Writing

This instructional handout offers guidance for crafting the thesis statement and introduction to an academic essay.


Building A Paragraph Using Sources For Support (Handout), Amber Landis, Parkland College Jan 2018

Building A Paragraph Using Sources For Support (Handout), Amber Landis, Parkland College

Paragraphs and Transitions

This handout shows how to construct a paragraph using sources for support and includes a sample paragraph.


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

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

Paragraphs and Transitions

This handout identifies and categorizes transitional words that can be used to connect one idea to the next and provides examples.


Paragraphs: Pie (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Paragraphs: Pie (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Paragraphs and Transitions

This handout outlines the Point Illustrate Explain (PIE) model for body paragraphs and provides examples to demonstrate.


Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This is instructional handout, prepared for English 102 (Composition II) at Parkland College, provides guidance on how to use graphs and charts in research writing.


Subject And Verb Agreement (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Subject And Verb Agreement (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional video with downloadable slides review subject, verb, and pronoun agreement and suggests ways to correct sentence structure errors.


Verb Tenses (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Verb Tenses (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This video with downloadable slides discusses the various forms of verb tense and addresses errors that can occur in writing.


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

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

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout addresses some common pitfalls when using pronouns in writing and makes suggestions for how to correct these errors.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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

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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.


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.


Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick Jan 2018

Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick

Sentence-level Errors

No abstract provided.


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.