Writing Skills Resources

• Demystifying the Thesis Statement
• Thesis Statement Exercise
   
• Writing Concisely
• Proofreading, Editing and Revising
   
• Brainstorming Strategies
• Overcoming Writer's Block
  • Graphic Organizers:
    • Character Map
    • Claim/Evidence/Interpretation
    • Clustering
    • KTWC
    • KWHL
    • Text/World/Self
    • Topic/Audience/Purpose
    • Venn Diagram
        
• Avoiding Sentence Fragments
• Signal Words
• Linking Verbs
• Active vs. Passive Voice
• Using the Past or Present Tense
• Comma Rules
• Comma Splices, Fused Sentences and Run-ons
   
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• APA Style Guidelines
• Chicago Style "Author-Date" Guidelines
• MLA Style Guidelines: Works Cited and In-Text Citations
• MLA Style Guidelines: Formatting Your Paper
• APA vs. MLA Format
• Video demo of setting up an MLA formatted paper (by Daytona State College)
• Video demo of setting up an APA formatted paper (by Daytona State College)
   
• Writing about Art
• Harvard Writing Center Brief Guides to Writing Papers in the Disciplines
   
• Writing In Groups
• Using Google Docs for Group Projects 
• Working in Groups - Contract for Group Project
• Working in Groups - Group Meeting Agenda
• Working in Groups - Group Member Process Roles and Functions
• Working in Groups - Group Member Community Roles and Behaviors

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