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• General Academic Writing Advice

Purdue Online Writing Lab - Great site for academic writing from Purdue University.

U of S Learning Centre - Help on various writing tasks.

Examples of Good Paraphrases

• Part 1: Professional Emails

  Here is the rubric we will use to mark the email assignment

  Part 2: Writing Skills & Paragraphs

Practice tests (same format as our real test)

Practice Test 1

Practice Test 2

Comma splices, run on sentences and fragments

Capital Community College Foundation - Explanations and quizzes (towards to bottom of the page)

Utah Valley University - Quiz

Perdue Online Writing Lab - Explanations and quizzes

Wisc-Online - PowerPoint-style explanation of incorrect sentences and some quizzes.

San Diego State University - Nice handout with many examples.

Parallel grammatical structure

Perdue Online Writing Lab - Explanation

MyEnglishTeacher.net - Explanation, examples, and a quiz

Paragraphs

Perdue Online Writing Lab - Advice about how to write a good paragraph.

MyEnglishTeacher.net - Explanation, examples, and a quiz

Transitions and Punctuation Patterns

USLC Handout - This handout from the University of Saskatchewan Language Centre provides a great list of transition words and an explanation of common punctuation patterns.

 

• Part 3: Essay

Here is the rubric we will use to mark the first draft of the essay.

Here is the rubric we will use to mark the final draft of the essay.

• Part 4: Sourced Paragraph

Here is the rubric we will use to mark the sourced paragraph.

Here are possible answers to the "Chocolate" exercise from the writing packet, pages 13.6 and 13.7.

• Final Exam Writing Practice

Here is practice for the final writing exam including the rubric we will use to mark the exam.