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Active And Passive Voice (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Agreement (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Agreement (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Style and Mechanics
No abstract provided.
Sentence Fragments Ii (Handout), Lori Williams, Sally Wallace, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
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.
Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick
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.
Sentence Fragments I (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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.
Run-On Sentences (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Run-On Sentences (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
Sentence-level Errors
No abstract provided.
Summaries 2, Sue Kuykendall, Parkland College Center For Academic Success
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.