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Sentence Fragments 2, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace Jun 2022

Sentence Fragments 2, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace

Sentence-level Errors

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


Personal Statements For College Applications And Scholarships, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Personal Statements For College Applications And Scholarships, Angela Gulick

Personal Statements for College Applications and Scholarships

This handout, complied by the author and Writing Lab Faculty, presents suggestions on how to write a personal statement for a college application.


Sample Personal Statement #1 For College Application, Deanna Williams Jun 2022

Sample Personal Statement #1 For College Application, Deanna Williams

Personal Statements for College Applications and Scholarships

This handout provides an example of a personal statement for a college application.


Sample Personal Statement #2 For College Application, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Sample Personal Statement #2 For College Application, Angela Gulick

Personal Statements for College Applications and Scholarships

This handout provides an example of a personal statement for a college application.


Active And Passive Voice, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Active And Passive Voice, Angela Gulick

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, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Agreement, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout covers the topics of subject, verb, and pronoun agreement and offers advice on how to correct errors.


Capitalization, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Capitalization, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout offers guidelines for knowing when to capitalize words.


Conciseness And Clarity, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Conciseness And Clarity, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

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


Conjunctions, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Conjunctions, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout offers guidelines for using conjunctions.


Point Of View, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Point Of View, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

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


Pronouns, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Pronouns, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

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


Singulars And Plurals, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace Jun 2022

Singulars And Plurals, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace

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, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Verb Tenses, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

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


Column Graphs Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Column Graphs Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout demonstrates how to create column graphs using Microsoft Word 365.


Setting Up A Paper Using Microsoft Word 365, Sue Jones Jun 2022

Setting Up A Paper Using Microsoft Word 365, Sue Jones

Computer Tutorials

This instructional handout provides a visual for setting up line spacing using Microsoft Word 365.


Tables Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Tables Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 365.


Headers Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Headers Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instructions for how to create headers using Microsoft Word 365.


Seven Steps For Incorporating Visuals, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Seven Steps For Incorporating Visuals, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout demonstrates how to use graphs, tables, and charts in a Microsoft Word 365 document.


Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout demonstrates how to use Microsoft Word 365 to build pie charts.


Tables Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Tables Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 365.


Job Application Letter And Résumé Sample #4, Ruijie Zhao Jun 2022

Job Application Letter And Résumé Sample #4, Ruijie Zhao

Employment Materials

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


Commas, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Commas, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of commas.


Paraphrasing, Summarizing, And Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Paraphrasing, Summarizing, And Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

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


Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick Jun 2022

Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

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


Authorial Agency: Investigating Composition Pedagogies Under A New Lens, Tyler Hurst May 2022

Authorial Agency: Investigating Composition Pedagogies Under A New Lens, Tyler Hurst

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This essay considers the work of three prominent composition scholars through the lens of authorial agency, which I define as a form of agency that focuses on the individual voice and self-determination of students in the writing space. Though the concept of agency has been previously considered by composition scholars, this contribution might aid in understanding various pedagogical approaches by analyzing how authorial agency is already being engaged within composition pedagogies and investigating how authorial agency aids teachers in understanding their pedagogy so that students learn to take back control of their own authoritative voice and self-determination. By re-investigating …


Inclusive Pedagogy: Connecting Disability And Race In Higher Education, Meredith Persin May 2022

Inclusive Pedagogy: Connecting Disability And Race In Higher Education, Meredith Persin

All Theses

Higher education was never made for marginalized people. The academy was created based on the privileged white, able-bodied, males who preoccupied higher education for the longest time. While that has certainly changed over the years, the institution itself is still in the past resulting in BIPOC students and disabled students continuing to struggle within higher education. While instructors have begun to take interest in the need for inclusive pedagogy within the last decade, it still has a far way to come in order to help the marginalized students with intersecting identities and students who may not benefit from a one …


Reading With Social, Digital Annotation: Encouraging Engaged Critical Reading In A Challenging Age, Miranda L. Egger May 2022

Reading With Social, Digital Annotation: Encouraging Engaged Critical Reading In A Challenging Age, Miranda L. Egger

English Theses & Dissertations

This design-based research study examines the pedagogical role of social, digital annotation in teaching reading as rhetorical invention, particularly the kind of invention necessary for thoughtful democratic participation in the contemporary discursive era, often described as troubled. In this dissertation study, I deployed a classroom-based intervention meant to challenge how educators in rhetoric and composition/writing studies might directly address the acute and exigent discursive struggle in the first-year composition classroom. This study ultimately finds that social, digital annotation invites significant shifts in students’ reading habits, in that Hypothes.is-based annotations yielded a far more complex, multifaceted set of reading skills, behaviors, …


Fragmentation In The Dual Enrollment Experience: The Importance Of Students’ Self-Perceptions In Dual Enrollment First-Year Composition Students, Sarah Crystal Johnson May 2022

Fragmentation In The Dual Enrollment Experience: The Importance Of Students’ Self-Perceptions In Dual Enrollment First-Year Composition Students, Sarah Crystal Johnson

English Theses & Dissertations

Dual enrollment has become an embedded aspect of our writing programs yet is still an under-researched area within rhetoric and composition. One reason for this research gap is that many DE students experience their FYC courses on secondary campuses, liminal spaces that are more difficult to access for research. DE students within these spaces experience daily tensions between the collegiate expectations of FYC curriculum and the secondary social contexts in which their DE FYC courses are taught. These unique contextual experiences impact their perceptions of themselves as writers. This research is an attempt to step into this DE research gap …


An Action Research Study On Lms Assessment Tools And Faculty Practice In English Composition Courses Of A Community College, Sophia Mitra Apr 2022

An Action Research Study On Lms Assessment Tools And Faculty Practice In English Composition Courses Of A Community College, Sophia Mitra

Theses and Dissertations

This mixed methods action research study aimed to understand the use of LMS assessment tools by faculty teaching English Composition (Eng 101) at a New Jersey Community College in order to increase that use for assessment of outcomes. In spite of administrative push for faculty to use the LMS for data based decision-making, there is still limited use of LMS tools. In writing-intensive fields like Eng 101 grading and feedback could be accelerated along with monitoring student performance on outcomes using LMS assessment tools. Forming a virtual faculty learning committee that collaborated in the study's data collection and analysis, volunteers …


The Pedagogical Pitfalls Of Literature In College Composition And Teacher Education: A Foundational Analysis, Rinn Norman Apr 2022

The Pedagogical Pitfalls Of Literature In College Composition And Teacher Education: A Foundational Analysis, Rinn Norman

Symposium of Student Scholars

Many of today’s college students struggle with college-level writing in Standard English, and during the last few decades, educators, parents, and experts in countless professional fields have begun to express a collective frustration over the quality of college graduates’ written English. However, this lack of quality in students’ and graduates’ writing is not due to laziness or generational differences, but rather a foundational shortcoming in the use of literary texts as the basis for instructional material in lower-level composition classes. This paper examines the traditional use of literature-based instruction in first-year composition (FYC) classes as well as undergraduate and graduate …