LARES

Summer Success Seminar

Writing Resource Packet

Links

· Brainstorming

· How to Effectively Organize a Paper

· Methods of Organizing Your Essay

· Outline Worksheet

· Writing a Thesis Statement

· Writing Process Worksheet

· ASP LARES – First Draft Checklist

· Commonly Found Grammatical, Structural & Stylistic Errors

· Peer Conferencing Guidelines

· Proofreaders’ Marks

· Portfolio Writing Scoring Rubric

· Poetry Assignment Rubric

· Useful Transitional Words

· Redundant Pairs

· Redundant Categories

· Spelling: Common Words that Sound Alike

· Editing & Proofreading Strategies for Revision

· Proofreading for Commas

· Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences

· Sentence Fragments

· Active & Passive Voice

· Coherence

· MLA:

Why Use MLA Format?

Handling Parenthetical Citations (MLA)

Handling Long Quotations (MLA)

A Sample Work Cited Page (MLA)

Work Cited: Books, Magazine Articles, WebPages (MLA)

Work Cited List – Newspaper Articles, Sources with Unknown Authors (MLA)

· A Note on Plagiarism

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