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Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

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 2018 Parkland College

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.


Teaching Service-Learners To Be Designers Of Social Change, Matthew James Vechinski 2018 Virginia Commonwealth University

Teaching Service-Learners To Be Designers Of Social Change, Matthew James Vechinski

Focused Inquiry Publications

This presentation focuses on teaching undergraduates to regard themselves as designers in the context of interdisciplinary project-based learning. Central to design thinking is storytelling, using narrative to reflect on scenarios and to build empathy with stakeholders. It also involves recognizing community partners as collaborators, not just as passive recipients of benefits, in order to produce truly innovative, sustainable projects that fulfill real needs and bring about change.


Toward A Theology Of Transformation, Hannah Kathleen Griggs 2018 Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Toward A Theology Of Transformation, Hannah Kathleen Griggs

Eddie Mabry Diversity Award

Black liberation theologians come to terms with white supremacy by collectively remembering the story of the Exodus and Jesus' crucifixion--affirming God's preference for freedom and in-the-world salvation. The particular history of white American Christianity requires a different story to provide the foundation for our social memory. As white American Christians, we have certain blind spots—blind spots created by historical and social privileges that have given white people unequal access to power and resources. The story of Zacchaeus has the potential to help reframe white Christianity’s conception of race relations in the United States, shifting from a reconciliation paradigm to a …


The Phenomenon Of Rome: On Roads, Refugees, And Teilhard De Chardin, Jon Radwan 2018 Seton Hall University

The Phenomenon Of Rome: On Roads, Refugees, And Teilhard De Chardin, Jon Radwan

CHDCM Publications

Teilhard de Chardin’s understanding of creation as an evolutionary process is used as a lens for studying Roman roads and refugees. A shorter version of this essay was published in Seton Hall University 2018 Core Trip, pages 28-33. This draft has been submitted for potential publication in Writing Rome: A Spiritual Journey, Kelly Shea ed.


Ua37/42 Faculty Personal Papers Nina Hammer, WKU Archives 2018 Western Kentucky University

Ua37/42 Faculty Personal Papers Nina Hammer, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Nina Hammer, Bowling Green Business University Registrar 1938-1963; WKU Registrar 1963-1969.


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

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.


Las 189 Im Content Guide, Richard Morris PhD, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

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.


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

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.


Question Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

Question Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout helps determine the appropriate time to use a question mark by distinguishing direct questions from indirect questions.


Hyphens (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

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

Punctuation

This short video with downloadable slides will demonstrate proper use of hypens


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

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

Sentence-level Errors

No abstract provided.


Commas (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

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

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides showcases the importance of commas, for example, the difference between "Let's eat, Grandpa!" and "Let's eat Grandpa!"


Column Graphs Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

Column Graphs Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout with video demonstrates how to create column graphs using Microsoft Word 2013.


Setting Up A Paper Using Microsoft Word 2013, Sue Jones, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

Setting Up A Paper Using Microsoft Word 2013, Sue Jones, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This instructional handout provides a visual for setting up line spacing using Word 2013.


Formatting Your Paper Mla Style Using Microsoft Word 2013 For Pcs, Deanna Williams, Parkland College Center for Academic Success 2018 Parkland College

Formatting Your Paper Mla Style Using Microsoft Word 2013 For Pcs, Deanna Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

MLA (Modern Language Association) Documentation

This handout provides basic formatting guidelines for papers requiring Modern Language Association (MLA) style, with specific instructions for using Microsoft Word 2013.


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

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.


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

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.


The Truth About Literature: An Examination Of Emotion And Ethics Across Genre, Christian Alexander Simms 2018 Marshall University

The Truth About Literature: An Examination Of Emotion And Ethics Across Genre, Christian Alexander Simms

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The following thesis presents strategies for reading ethically across a series of texts while discussing the emotional labor writers endure throughout their writing processes. By examining the current pedagogical approaches in composition studies, readers of writing can interpret the use of emotion in texts as a rhetorical strategy, while also recognizing instances of its social construction beyond the classroom. Once providing evidence for how writers execute emotion in their work, the thesis continues by discussing how J. Hillis Miller’s theory of ethics is applied to the narrative structure of stories and texts, and how readers can recognize the emotional strategies …


Introduction To Discourse, Structure And Linguistic Choice By T. Price Caldwell, Robert Stainton 2018 University of Western Ontario

Introduction To Discourse, Structure And Linguistic Choice By T. Price Caldwell, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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