The Writing Center
Offering tutoring, writing activities and various writing resources to motivate and assist student writers.

The Writing Center
(for English 100, 101, 110, 165, ESL 400)

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Writing Center Tutorials

The Writing Center tutorials are appropriate for Engl 100, 100+101, 110 and 165 and ESL 400.

If you are an Engl 828, 838 or 848 student, do not complete the Writing Center tutorials. Click here for the English 800 Lab tutorials.

 

LIBRARY TUTORIALS UPDATE:

To receive credit for a library tutorial, YOU MUST PRINT YOUR SCORE (which is shown after you hit the submit key).

To access library tutorials click here.

If you are having trouble accessing the library tutorials, please contact the library here.

 

Please do not print tutorials in the Writing Center. Thank you!


Sentence Development Tutorials

Introductory Tutorial: Identifying Verbs and Subjects

The Introductory Tutorial teaches you how to identify verbs and subjects. This skill is required of all students assigned Tutorials 1-4.


1. Sentence Fragments

 

 

The purpose of this tutorial is to help you recognize phrases and clauses, dependent and independent clauses, subordinators, and sentence fragments.


2. Run-Together Sentences

 

 

The purpose of this tutorial is to help you to correct run-together sentences with coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, the semicolon and transitional expressions as well as to learn to proofread for run-together sentences.

You can print the tutorials below at home. Write out the answers for these tutorials and have a Writing Center instructor go over the answers with you.

3. Basic Subject-Verb Agreement

12. Verbal Phrases

4. Advanced Subject-Verb Agreement

13. Sentence Focus

5. Pronoun Agreement

14. Summarizing and Paraphrasing

6. Past Tense

15. Using Quotations

7. Special Tenses

16. Correlatives

8. Use of Apostrophes with Possessives and Contractions

17. Parallel Structure

9. Homonyms

18. Adjective Clauses

10. Joining Ideas (Coordination & Subordination) 19. Writing Concisely

11. Noun Phrase Appositives

20. The Concessive Sentence

  21. Using Commas


Essay and Paragraph Development Tutorials


Paragraph Basics: Topic Sentences and Unity

Paragraph Basics: Logical Order and Transitions


Thesis and Topic Sentences

Comparing and Contrasting

Argument One: Topics, Introductions, and Thesis Statements

Argument Two: Considering the Opposition and Developing Your Stance




Essay and Sentence Development Podcasts

These podcasts are short reviews of our tutorials on essay and sentence development, without exercises.

FANBOYS Rap Podcast

FANBOYS Rap Podcast: Complete Tutorial

Noun Phrase Appositives Punctuation Podcast

Taking an In-Class Essay Podcast

Sentence Focus Podcast

Verbal Phrases

Correcting Run-Together Sentences



You will need an up-to-date version of Apple's iTunes to view these podcasts. If you do not have a copy of iTunes, you can download a copy here.


Critical Thinking Skills Supplementary Exercises

These exercises are designed for English 165 and 110 students. You may come to the Writing Center, 18-104, if you need Internet access or prefer to work on hard copy. Once you have completed one of the following Critical Thinking Skills Supplementary Exercises, please come to the Writing Center to receive verification.

Different Kinds of Statement: Facts, Inferences & Judgements

Hidden Assumptions

Logical Fallacies

Three Common Fallacies

Logical Method: Induction & Deduction

Understanding Arguments: Logic

Understanding Arguments: Rhetoric


Drawing Inferences from Literature


Please do not print tutorials in the Writing Center. Thank you.

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