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Commas (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Commas (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Punctuation
This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of commas.
Apostrophes (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Apostrophes (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Punctuation
This video presentation with downloadable slides demonstrates the proper use of apostrophes.
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.
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.
Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Graphs, Charts, and Tables
This is instructional handout, prepared for English 102 (Composition II) at Parkland College, provides guidance on how to use graphs and charts in research writing.
Tables Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Tables Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Computer Tutorials
This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 2013.
Headers Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Headers Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Computer Tutorials
This handout provides instructions for how to create headers using Microsoft Word 2013.
Table Of Contents Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Table Of Contents Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Computer Tutorials
This handout and video combination demonstrates how to create a table of contents using Microsoft Word 2013.
Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Computer Tutorials
This handout and video combination demonstrates how to use Word 2013 to build pie charts.
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
Sabbatical Summary, Paula Boyd
Sabbatical Summary, Paula Boyd
Sabbaticals
My career in writing studies was originally inspired by the convergence of my academic interests and my natural inclination to play with technology. In the 15 years since I was in school, the technology has changed, the way people communicate with technology has changed, the students' technological immersion has changed, and the scholarship had changed. My goal was to walk around in the 21st century landscape to try to reorient and re-inspire myself and make some connections between traditional and digital literacies. In particular, I was interested in reflecting on two areas that had become quite central to the scholarly …
Fall 2015 Award Winner: The Power Of Novels, Huizi Hu
Fall 2015 Award Winner: The Power Of Novels, Huizi Hu
The Diana McDonald Writer's Challenge
As the saying goes, “A book holds a golden house.” This old Chinese proverb indicates that learning the wisdom that is shown in writing can lead to success. Therefore, in my home country, China, teachers always use this sentence to encourage students to study hard in order to achieve high scores. However, an interesting fact in the majority of families in my hometown is that only textbooks are considered to be useful while novels are considered to be unorthodox and a distraction to one’s studies. In most parents’ minds, reading novels is a waste of time so that they forbid …
The Fall Of The Tsars, Jamie Hendrickson
The Fall Of The Tsars, Jamie Hendrickson
A with Honors Projects
This paper summarizes the events that led to the fall of the Romanov family and the end of the tsarist autocracy in the early 20th century. Also summarized is the search for and final discovery of the bodies of the entire Romanov family, putting to rest the theory that Anastasia Romanov had lived.
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.