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Conclusions (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Conclusions (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Academic Essay Writing

This handout provides information and guidance to help compose a conclusion to an academic essay.


Writing Process Tip Sheet (Handout), Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Writing Process Tip Sheet (Handout), Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Academic Essay Writing

This handout outlines some basic strategies to help writers focus on the invention, arrangement, and style of an academic essay.


Introductions And Thesis Statements (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Introductions And Thesis Statements (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Academic Essay Writing

This instructional handout offers guidance for crafting the thesis statement and introduction to an academic essay.


Subject And Verb Agreement (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Subject And Verb Agreement (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional video with downloadable slides review subject, verb, and pronoun agreement and suggests ways to correct sentence structure errors.


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

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

Style and Mechanics

This video with downloadable slides discusses the various forms of verb tense and addresses errors that can occur in writing.


Pronouns (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Pronouns (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

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


Active And Passive Voice (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Active And Passive Voice (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

This instructional video with downloadable slides distinguishes between passive and active voice and advises when to use them in writing.


Point Of View (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Point Of View (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Style and Mechanics

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


Conciseness And Clarity, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 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.


Toward A Theology Of Transformation, Hannah Kathleen Griggs Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 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.