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Full-Text Articles in Education
Conciseness And Clarity, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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
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
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
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
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
Agreement (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Style and Mechanics
No abstract provided.
Sentence Fragments Ii (Handout), Lori Williams, Sally Wallace, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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
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
Run-On Sentences And Comma Splices (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
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
No abstract provided.
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
Affective Tensions In Response, Nicole I. Caswell
Affective Tensions In Response, Nicole I. Caswell
Journal of Response to Writing
This article reports on a study focused on understanding the relationship between teachers’ emotional responses and the larger contextual factors that shape response practices. Drawing from response and emotion scholarship, this article proposes affective tensions as a way for understanding the tug and pull that teachers experience between what they feel they should do (mostly driven from a pedagogical perspective) and what they are expected to do (mostly driven by an institutional perspective) in a contextual moment. The case study of Kim, a community college instructor, offers an analysis of two affective tensions that emerged from her think-aloud protocol (TAP): …
Community College Writing Program Administrators: Implementing Change Through Advocacy, Lizbett Tinoco
Community College Writing Program Administrators: Implementing Change Through Advocacy, Lizbett Tinoco
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This Dissertation, Community College WPAs: Implementing Change Through Advocacy, examines the work and role of Writing Program Administrators (WPAs) at community colleges. Defining the role and the work of WPAs is very complex, and even more so at community colleges since these institutions are very diverse places in regards to programmatic structure and student population. The scholarship of writing program administration has typically excluded community colleges; as a result, my research focuses on including these narratives. Unlike a lot of WPA narratives that often describe WPAs as "composition wives" (Schuster, 1991; Hesse, 1999) who do much of the dirty work …