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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.


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

No abstract provided.


Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick Jan 2018

Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick

Sentence-level Errors

No abstract provided.


Sentence Fragments I (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

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.


Summaries 2, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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.


Ua37/42 Faculty Personal Papers Nina Hammer, Wku Archives Jan 2018

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 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.


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.


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.


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

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 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.


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.


When Free Speech Disrupts Diversity Initiatives: What We Value And What We Do Not, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt Jan 2018

When Free Speech Disrupts Diversity Initiatives: What We Value And What We Do Not, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

Faculty Publications

In this essay, I argue that the debate on free speech as pushed by the conservative right is a strategic apparatus to undermine the various diversity initiatives on college and university campuses. While supporters of the right wing extremists around the globe have pushed for various modes of exclusions (social, racial, ethnic, cultural, religious and sexual), here in the United States, such exclusions are most evident in the collapse of academic freedom and the rise of civility codes as students and educators use the platform of free speech to promote various forms of injustices and exclusions. Our neoliberal college and …