Academic Writing Foundations

Clarity and Concision

Writing with Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace This presentation will discuss the Joseph Williams material on effective writing.

Sentence Variety This presentation will show you how to join simple sentences to create variety for comparing and contrasting ideas in your paper.

Punctuation This presentation will show you the major rules for commas, colons, semicolons, and dashes.

20 Most Common Writing Errors: Part 1 This presentation covers the most common Comma, Pronoun, and Apostrophe errors that students make in their writing.

20 Most Common Writing Errors: Part 2 This presentation covers the most common Word Choice, Phrase Placement, and Sentence Structure errors in writing.

Organization and Structure

The Writing Process This presentation will discuss the stages of the writing process and ideas for efficiency and effectiveness.

Paragraphs and Topic Sentences This presentation will discuss the structure of paragraphs and the importance of topic sentences.

The Critical Review Process This presentation will discuss the critical review process for books and journal articles.

Ethics and Sources

Avoiding Plagiarism This presentation will show you how to avoid both intentional and unintentional plagiarism.

Style Manuals

Turabian

The Turabian 7th Edition presentation gives a helpful overview of the Turabian manual.

The Turabian Pagination presentation will show you how to format the page numbers in your Microsoft Word document.

The Turabian Title Page presentation will show you how to format your title page in Microsoft Word document.

The Turabian Table of Contents presentation will show you how to format an automatic table of contents page in your Microsoft Word document.

The Turabian Source presentation will show you how to format the source information in your Microsoft Word document.

APA

The APA 5th Edition Frequently Asked Questions presentation will cover the basics of writing a paper in the 5th edition APA.

The APA 5th Edition Formatting presentation will show you the basic formatting for your Microsoft Word document in the 5th edition APA.

The New 6th Edition APA presentation will show you the basics for the new 6th edition APA.