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Formatting Your Paper Mla Style Using Online Microsoft Word In Outlook/Onedrive, Deanna Williams, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Formatting Your Paper Mla Style Using Online Microsoft Word In Outlook/Onedrive, 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 the online version of Microsoft Word in Outlook/OneDrive.


Job Application Letter Sample, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Job Application Letter Sample, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

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


Sample Personal Statement For College Applications And Scholarships 2, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Sample Personal Statement For College Applications And Scholarships 2, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides a sample of a personal statement for college applications and scholarships to help students construct their own.


Personal Statements For College Applications And Scholarships, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Personal Statements For College Applications And Scholarships, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct a personal statement for college applications and scholarships.


Writing A Professional Email, Amber Landis, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Writing A Professional Email, Amber Landis, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct a professional email by listing dos and don'ts of formatting and outlining components.


Résumé Tips, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Résumé Tips, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides tips on writing résumés.


Financial Aid Appeal Letters, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Financial Aid Appeal Letters, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct a letter to the Financial Aid Appeal Committee. It consists of tips and a "past, present, and future" outline.


Elements Of A Résumé, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Elements Of A Résumé, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct a Résumé by describing the sections and elements that are expected or optional.


Job Application Letter And Résumé Sample 1, Ruijie Zhao, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Job Application Letter And Résumé Sample 1, Ruijie Zhao, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Email Messages and Employment Materials

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


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

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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.