Resources

BLOGGING

WordPress.com

COLLEGE

College Success – OER textbook

GENERAL – WRITING

Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries (Online)

Proofreading/Editing Marks

Purdue OWL – Online Writing Resource

Sandwiching Quotes

They Say/I Say Templates (Vocabulary)

Writing Commons – Open-education resource for college students with articles on writing, critical thinking, and information literacy.

Writing an outline:

• How to Outline
• Creating a reverse outline
• Constructing sentence outlines

Writing for Success – Open-education resource (free) textbook

GRAMMAR

• Purdue OWL – Online Writing Resource
• Sentence fragments
• Run-on sentences
• Capitalization and Punctuation Rules
• Commonly confused words

MLA FORMAT

MLA Format Checklist

MLA Formatting: Quotations

MLA_Sample.doc

Purdue OWL: How To Do MLA Formatting

Purdue OWL: Creating a Works Cited List

Works Cited Guide

PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

D2L

Library Website

MyPima

Scholarship Opportunities

Tutoring

RESEARCHED ARGUMENT

Essay 3 and the Final Presentation Prompt

Guide to conducting field research

Finding credible statistics.

How to Research Guide: Evaluating websites

Rhetorical strategies

Works Cited Guide

Fallacies of Argument

Fallacies poster

Focusing on a Topic

Parts of an Argument

Types of Evidence

Paragraph structure – PIE

Research Process Overview

Avoiding Plagiarism

Sample Outline

Negotiating the Opposition

Interpreting Turnitin results

Drafting Essay 3

They Say/I Say (templates for the researched argument essay)

Forming a thesis 

Testing a thesis

Self-Evaluation for Essay 3

In-text citations

 Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

Introduction: Building an introduction paragraph for the rhetorical analysis essay

Thesis: Rhetorical Analysis paper thesis examples

Organization & appropriate content: Body paragraphs & topic sentences

Organization & depth of analysis: Paragraph structure – PIE

Analysis: Rhetorical analysis process organizer

Specificity: Rhetorical strategies & language to talk about them

Depth of Analysis: Checklist for Analyzing Images and Ads