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Sentence Fragments I (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Run-On Sentences (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Run-On Sentences (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Sentence-level Errors
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Summaries 2, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Research Skills
This handout provides step-by-step information on using direct quotations.
Formal Outlines: Analyzing And Argumentative Topic And Outlining An Argument, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Paraphrasing, Summarizing, And Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Synthesis Of Research, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Academic Research Papers - Helpful Hints, Lori Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Notes On Quotes: Special Circumstances, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Summaries 1, Lori Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Annotated Bibliographies, Brian Nudelman, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Paraphrasing Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Editing Strategies (Handout), Angela Gulick
Editing Strategies (Handout), Angela Gulick
Editing Strategies
This instructional handout provides tips for improving editing skills.
Editing Strategies (Slides), Angela Gulick
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
Beating The Odds: Teaching Italian Online In The Community College Environment, Giulia Guarnieri
Beating The Odds: Teaching Italian Online In The Community College Environment, Giulia Guarnieri
Publications and Research
This study analyzes data collected from Italian language online classes during the course of four consecutive semesters at Bronx Community College in order to measure the impact that distance learning has on students’ retention and success rates in elementary courses. The results reveal that reconfiguring the online meetings to a lower percentage and implementing social pedagogies reduce course abandonment and favor the creation of strong learning communities. Furthermore, the data relative to the grade distribution shows no substantial difference between online courses and face-to-face instruction.
Ethics Readiness: An Analysis Of Community College Students' Moral Sensitivity Scores, Julie Wallace
Ethics Readiness: An Analysis Of Community College Students' Moral Sensitivity Scores, Julie Wallace
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
In this retrospective causal-comparative study, the readiness of Virginia community college students to receive an accounting ethics curriculum was analyzed by measuring and comparing their moral sensitivity scores to the moral sensitivity scores of a group of four year university students. A sample of college students attending community college principles of accounting courses and a sample of college students attending four year university principles of accounting courses were administered a nationally recognized moral sensitivity survey instrument, the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT2). The survey results were analyzed using a t-test for differences between means. It was found that there was …
Spring 1997 Sabbatical Leave Report, Sally Wallace
Spring 1997 Sabbatical Leave Report, Sally Wallace
Sabbaticals
I propose to investigate the ways that basic English composition is taught at various colleges throughout the country and to use my findings to design a Parkland-specific English 101 instructional model that integrates composition into some of our transfer and career programs, so that students would write about topics relevant to their goals while enhancing their understanding of the academic discipline they're writing about. My research would involve the League for Innovation community colleges, Alverno College, Macomb Community College, the University of Illinois at Urbana, and the National Council of Teachers of English.