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Writing Resources for Students

Language Debates Standard English Other language debates	Grammar, Mechanics and Punctuation General Assistance for multilingual students Interactive exercises Proofreading Grammar General grammar Pronoun case Pronoun/antecedent agreement Sentence fragments Subject/verb agreement Subject/verb identification Punctuation Punctuation: general Apostrophes Colons Comma splices/run-ons Commas Dash Parentheses Quotation marks Semicolons Capitalization General capitalization Capitalization when citing books and articles
Getting started Anxiety/writer's block Audience Writing Process Brainstorming/planning Outlining
Drafting, revising, and editing Active / passive voice Clarity Clichés Computers and writing Conciseness / wordiness Concrete detail Dangling and misplaced modifiers Easily confused words Non-discriminatory language Organization Paragraph unity and coherence Parallelism Revision Sentence variety Thesis statements Titles, introductions and conclusions Tone Transitions Vivid, lively language
Genres, or types of writing Argument General Counter-arguments Fallacies Rhetorical appeals Essay exams Five-paragraph essays Professional and technical writing Resumes, cover letters, and letters of application Rhetorical analyses Rhetorical patterns or modes	Research writing General research information Appropriate use of sources / avoiding plagiarism Quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing Attributing / introducing quotations Evaluating web sites MLA documentation: general MLA documentation: electronic Using technology in research MLA documentation for English 101 MLA documentation for English 102
Reference Dictionaries General writing Quotations Thesauri	Literature Biographies, criticism, online resources Literary analysis Literary terminology

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