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- Co-authorship
- Conflict Resolution
- Critique
- Consider Feedback
- Navigate Feedback
- Provide Feedback in Group Situations
- Provide Feedback to Others
- Why Meet with a Writing Tutor?
- Leadership
- Peer Review
- In-class Peer Review
- Teamwork
- Tools for Project Management
- Data Visualization
- Charts, Figures, Graphs, & Tables
- Icons, Ideograms, Pictographs
- Illustrations
- Infographics
- Creating “Viral” Impressions: Composing Infographics for the Classroom and Work Space
- Design Elements*
- Color
- Copy
- Line
- Shape
- Size
- Space
- Texture
- Design Principles
- Alignment
- Balance
- Contrast
- Emphasis
- Harmony
- Movement
- Pattern
- Proportion
- Proximity
- Repetition
- Rhythm
- Scale
- Unity
- Variety
- Design Theory & Research
- Color Theory
- Simplicity*, Visual Design
- Typography
- Design Tools
- Page Design
- Photographs
- Image Formats
- Universal Design
- Accessibility
- Usability
- Editing Exercises
- Edit for Brevity
- Edit for Comma Splice
- Edit for Unclear Modifier
- Edit for Diction
- Edit Paragraphs
- Edit for Plagiarism
- Edit for Point of View
- Edit for Run-on Sentences
- Edit for Flow between Paragraphs
- Edit Primer Sentences
- Edit for Sentence Fragments
- Edit for Subject-Verb Agreement
- Edit for Pronoun Agreement
- Edit for Semicolons
- Proofreading
- Read Your Paper Aloud to Check Cohesiveness
- Cover Letter, Letter of Transmittal
- Executive Summary*
- Formal Reports
- Memos
- News Story (Journalism)
- Playwriting
- Overview of Playwriting
- Power in the “Black Stuff”
- Presentations
- PowerPoint Presentation: Developing an Effective Design
- Proposal Writing Basics
Help
Interaction
- Archive, Canon
- Critical Literacy
- Annotating the Margins
- Distinguishing between Main Points and Sub-claims
- The CRAAP Test (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose)
- Accuracy
- Authority
- Avoid the Use of Unsupported Opinions as Evidence
- How Are Your Sources Using Sources?
- News or Opinion?
- Non-traditional Types of Evidence
- Provide Background Information About the Researcher’s Method
- Popular vs. Scholarly Source
- Currency
- Purpose
- Relevance
- Information
- Information Architecture
- Information Design
- Information Literacy Perspectives & Practices
- Authority is Constructed & Contextual
- Information Creation as a Process
- Information Has Value
- Intellectual Property
- Plagiarism
- Attribution, Citation, & References
- American Psychological Association, 6th Edition
- Block Quotations (APA)
- Citing Paraphrases and Summaries (APA)
- Documenting Sources: APA
- Emphasizing Words in a Direct Quotation (APA)
- Formatting the Title Page (APA)
- Formatting the First Main Body Page (APA)
- Formatting Headings and Subheadings (APA)
- Omitting Words from a Direct Quotation (APA)
- References Page Template (APA)
- Short Quotations (APA)
- Using Footnotes
- Modern Language Association Style, 8th Edition
- Shorten the Title of this Source in the In-text Citation
- Formatting In-text Citations (ML
- MLA Checklist
- MLA Template
- Quoting in MLA
- Research as Inquiry
- Divide and Conquer: Rethinking Your Approach to Research
- Scholarship as a Conversation
- Conversation between Sources
- Sticking Your Nose In: Positioning Yourself in Academic Writing
- Understanding How Conversations Change Over Time
- Searching as Strategic Exploration
- Annotated List of Useful Online Resources
- Finding and Examining the Sources in Your Sources
- Preliminary Research
- Search Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Seek Help from Librarians
- Smart Searching
- Understanding Library Resources
- Understanding URLs
- Understanding URLS (Exercise Answers)
- Using Databases: Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
- Literacy
- Cognitive, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal Competencies
- Digital Literacy
- Digital Footprints: Public Writing and Social Identities
- Social Media Mythbusters
- Quantitative Literacy
- Visual Literacy
- Animation
- Breaking Down an Image
- Why Does Literacy Matter?
- Drafting
- Dictating
- Freewriting
- Snort, Snuffle, Write
- Heuristics
- Burke’s Pentad
- Document Planner
- Journalistic Questions
- The Common Topoi and Tagmemic Questions
- Journaling (Writer’s Journal)
- Preliminary Research
- Visual Brainstorming
- Clustering/spider maps
- Timeline/flowchart maps
- Hierarchical maps
- Modeling/theory maps
- Growth Mindset
- Adopt Effective Writing Habits
- Avoid Misplaced Modifiers
- Faith in the Writing Process
- Play the Believing Game
- Tips for Realizing Your Creative Potential
- Why Write?
- Intellectual Openness
- Demystify Writing Misconceptions
- Metacognition & Self-Regulation
- Establish a Comfortable Place to Write
- Sample Process Questions
- Overcome Discouragement
- Reflect on Your Writing
- Planning Technical Documents
- Professionalism & Work Ethic
- Establish a Comfortable Place to Write
- Scheduling Writing
- Resilience
- Global Perspective*
- Local Perspective*
- Organizational Schema & Logical Reasoning
- Causal Order
- Chronological Order
- Compare & Contrast
- Deductive Order, Deductive Reasoning, Deductive Writing
- Given-to-New Order
- Inductive Order, Inductive Reasoning, Inductive Writing
- Logical Order
- Spatial Order
- Conducting a Spatial Analysis Through the Lens of Universal Design
- Paragraph Schemas
- Flow, Transitions, Coherence @ Paragraph Level
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources within Paragraphs
- Unity @ Paragraph Level
- Sentence Schemas
- Sentence Order within Paragraphs
- Topic Sentence
- Thesis, Research Question, Title
- Absent Thesis
- Formulating a Thesis
- How to Win Papers and Influence Professors: Creating Positive First Impressions through Effective Titles
- The Guiding Idea and Argumentative Thesis Statement
- The Mysterious Incident of the Missing Title: Why Did Titular Concern Vanish from Composition Studies?
- The Thesis.
- Signposting, Organizational Thesis
- Transitional Language, Metalanguage, Seques
- Announcement Use
- Applied Research, Basic Research
- Research Ethics
- Human Subjects Research
- Informed Consent
- IRB (Institutional Review Board)
- Research Methodology
- Research Methods
- Empirical Research Methods
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Case Study
- Ethnography
- Participant Observation
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Corpus Linguistics Analysis, A Bird’s Eye View of Writing
- Survey Research
- Mixed Methods
- Content Analysis
- Customer Discovery Interviews
- Problem Space
- Problem Scenarios
- Venture Design
- Usability & User Experience Research
- Informal Research Methods
- Textual Research Methods
- Content Analysis
- Genre Analysis
- Hermeneutics
- Historiography
- Linguistic Analysis
- Literary Criticism
- Rhetorical Analysis
- A Guide to Textual Analysis
- Rhetorical Analysis in the Real World: A Useful Thinking Tool
- Rhetorical Analysis of Images
- Rhetorical Genre Analysis
- Text & Intertextuality
- Epistemology
- Declarative Knowledge
- Dialectic
- Empiricism
- Knowledge
- Knowledge Claim
- Positivism
- Postpositivism
- Procedural Knowledge
- Rhetorical Knowledge
- Tacit Knowledge
- Rhetorical Context*
- Audience
- Discourse Community, Community of Practice
- Methodological Communities
- Articles
- Audience Analysis: Primary, Secondary, and Hidden Audiences
- Classification
- Conducting a Spatial Analysis through the Lens of Universal Design
- Digital Footprints: Public Writing and Social Identities
- Fallacious Kairos
- Getting Started Writing on a Wiki
- Kairos
- Paragraphs Are Influenced by the Media of Writing
- Practicing Intercultural Communication
- Researching Your Audience
- Rhetorical Analysis in the Real World: A Useful Thinking Tool
- Social Media Mythbusters
- Think Rhetorically
- What to Think about When Writing for a Particular Audience
- You-Centered Business Style
- Medium, Media
- Occasion, Exigency & Kairos
- Fallacious Kairos
- Kairos
- Using Appeals to Kairos in Persuasive Writing
- Purpose (Rhetoric)
- Subject, Topic
- Symbol Analyst* (Writer, Speaker, Author, Researcher, Investigator, Rhetor, Sender, Knowledge Worker)
- Rhetorical Reasoning*
- Rhetorical Appeals
- Beware of “Oh, that makes sense”: Ethos in Context
- Diplomacy, Tone, and Emphasis in Business Writing
- Ethos
- Fallacious Ethos
- Fallacious Logos
- Fallacious Pathos
- Intrinsic Authority
- Logos
- Netiquette (Digital Ethics)
- Pathos
- Rhetorical Appeals: A Checklist for Writers
- Rhetorical Appeals: An Overview
- Taking Control: Managing Your Online Identity for the Job Search
- Using Pathos in Persuasive Writing
- Rhetorical Devices
- Rhetorical Elements of Argument
- Backing
- Counterargument
- Claim
- Grounds
- Qualifier
- Warrant
- Rhetorical Modes
- Classification
- Definition
- Description
- Exemplification
- Exposition
- Narration
- Employing Narrative in an Essay
- Rhetorical Stance
- Persona
- Point of View
- A Synthesis of Professor Perspectives on Using First and Third Person in Academic Writing
- Exercise: “We” and “You” in Academic Writing
- First-Person Point of View
- General Guidelines for Using the First Person
- Second-Person Point of View
- The First Person
- Third Person Point of View
- Understanding Second Person Point-of-View: Wizard Activity
- Using First Person in an Academic Essay: When is It Okay?
- Tone
- Diplomacy, Tone, and Emphasis in Business Writing
- Voice
- Diction
- Elements of Style
- Brevity
- Writing Concisely and Avoiding Redundancy
- Clarity, Simplicity
- Flow, Coherence, Unity
- Avoid Unnecessary Shifts in Point of View
- Avoid Unnecessary Shifts in Verb Tense
- Choppy Writing
- Creating Flow via Repetition
- Read Your Paper Aloud to Check Cohesiveness
- Strategic Sentence Structure
- Grammar
- Active vs Passive Voice
- Active Voice
- Identify When the Active Voice is Preferable to the Passive Voice
- Modifiers
- Dangling Modifiers
- Misplaced Modifiers
- Parts of Speech
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Articles
- Conjunctions
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- Subordinating Conjunctions
- Interjection
- Noun
- Nominalizations
- Preposition
- Pronoun
- Pronouns and Antecedents
- Verb
- Action Verbs vs. Inactive Verb
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Strong Verbs
- Verb-Tense Shift
- Sentences
- Awkward Sentence
- Comma Splice
- Sentence Fragment
- Mechanics
- Capitalization
- Punctuation
- Apostrophe
- Colons
- Commas
- Phrases, Essential and Non-essential Phrases
- Dashes
- Ellipsis
- End Punctuation
- Hyphens
- Italics
- Parentheses
- Quotation Marks
- Semicolons
- Spelling
- Styles of Writing
- Academic Prose Style
- Reader-Based Style
- Concrete & Sensory Language
- You-Centered Business Style
- What to Think about When Writing for a Particular Audience
- Substantive Prose Style
- Technical Writing Prose Style*
- Writer-Based Prose Style
- Assessment, Grading
- Discourse Community/Community of Practice
- Communication Studies
- Composition Studies
- Writers @ Work
- An Interview with Trent Hergenrader
- Interviews with Writers: Maureen Seaton
- An Interview with Stephanie Vanderslice
- Professional and Technical Communication
- An Overview of Professional and Technical Communication
- Psychology
- Rhetoric
- Why Study Rhetoric? or, What Freestyle Rap Teaches Us about Writing
- Rhetorical Genre Studies
- Semiotics: Sign, Signifier, Signified
- Flow: Integrate Textual Evidence (Quotes, Paraphrases, Summaries)
- Incorporating Evidence into a Research Paper
- Introduce Evidence
- Mix Quotes with Paraphrasing
- Relate Sources to Thesis/Research Question
- Paraphrasing
- Paraphrase Accurately to Preserve the Source’s Ideas
- Quotations
- Block Quotations
- When is Quoting Preferable to Paraphrasing?
- How Much of this Quote is Vital to Your Point
- Inserting or Altering Words in a Direct Quote
- Omitting Words from a Direct Quotation
- Summary, Evaluation, Synthesis
- Synthesizing Your Research Findings