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Documentation
Document Name: File Name: File Size:
APA Documentation Style APA_Document_Style.pdf 82 KB
APA Documentation Style, Prepared by the Library and the Writing Center APA_Library_WCenter.pdf 73 KB
Avoiding Plagiarism Avoiding_Plagiarism.pdf 55 KB
MLA Documentation Style MLA_Document_Style.pdf 64 KB
MLA Documentation Style, Prepared by the Library and the Writing Center MLA_Library_WCenter.pdf 76 KB
Essay Elements
Thesis Statement ThesisStatement.pdf 39 KB
Paragraphs Paragraphs.pdf 35 KB
Introductory Paragraph IntroductoryParagraph.pdf 26 KB
Body Paragraphs BodyParagraphs.pdf 37 KB
Concluding Paragraph ConcludingParagraph.pdf 25 KB
Essay Structures
Five-Paragraph Academic Essay 5ParagraphEssay.pdf 40 KB
The Academic Essay: Three Common Patterns AcademicEssay.pdf 55 KB
Argumentative Essay: Three Patterns Argumentative.pdf 60 KB
Cause-and-Effect Essay CauseEffectEssay.pdf 30 KB
Literature Essay LiteratureEssay.pdf 73 KB
Comparison-Contrast Comp_Contr.pdf 73 KB
Taking An Essay Test Taking_an_Essay_Test.pdf 31 KB
Punctuation
Apostrophe Apostrophe.pdf 41 KB
Colon Colon.pdf 23 KB
Comma Comma.pdf 56 KB
Semicolon Semicolon.pdf 28 KB
Titles of Works TitlesofWorks.pdf 71 KB
The Hyphen and the Dash Hyphen_Dash.pdf 32 KB
Commas: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Modifiers Restr_and_Nonrestr.pdf 37 KB
Grammar
Adjectives and Adverbs Adj_Adv.pdf 29 KB
Comma Splices Comma_Splices.pdf 42 KB
Commonly Confused Words Confused_Words.pdf 29 KB
Conjunctions Conjunctions.pdf 31 KB
Run-on Sentences Run_ons.pdf 40 KB
Sentence Combining Sent_Comb.pdf 22 KB
Pronoun-Antecedent Pro_Ante_Fr.pdf 69 KB
Active and Passive Voice Active_Fr.pdf 65 KB
Sentence Fragments Frag_Fr.pdf 72 KB
Parallelism Para_Fr.pdf 62 KB





  

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