Forming A Thesis Statement
How to Form a Thesis Statement Choose a Topic. What is a Topic? Define a PROBLEM within your topic. How? Explore/ Analyze the PROBLEM. How? Create a Thesis Statement. What is a Thesis Statement? Find...
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“If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.” –Robert Southey (Thanks to Dena for finding this quotation!) Forming A...
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Tips for Talks Speak clearly. Speak loudly enough to be heard everywhere in the room. Rehearse your talk (and time yourself). Keep within your time limit. Make eye contact whenever possible. Begin and...
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Because we are so crunched for time at the end of the semester, I’ve created a virtual workshop on Dangling Participles for you. Grammar Workshop: Dangling Participles You can download this Power Point...
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Learning to Write College Papers This is a site I created for one of my classes. It has helpful handouts about structure, thesis development, grammar issues, integration of quotations and more. Feel...
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Last week at training, we had fun looking at apostrophes. Purdue’s OWL (Online Writing Lab) answers questions about the apostrophe here this week.
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