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Writing guides

Writing Basics

• Seven stages of writing assignments

• Develop your topic (1)

• Identify your audience (2)

• Research (3)

• Organize and prewrite (4)

• Draft/write (5)

• Revise (6)

• Proofread (7)

• Essay exam terms/directives
• Transitional words & phrases
• Modifiers & commas
• Spelling - American
• Interviewing for class projects
  • Consent form
• Citing websites

Writing Types

• Five-paragraph essays
• Literature class essays
• Expository essays
• Persuasive essays
• Position papers
• Lab reports and scientific papers
• White papers
• Case studies
• Research papers
• Essay Exams
• Writing for the "Web"

Helpful

• Writing under deadline
• Avoiding procrastination
• Mapping information for learning
• Studying with multiple sources
• Tutoring guidelines
• Using feedback
  and working with tutors
• Organizing research with computers
  & avoiding plagiarism
• Organizing research
  with note cards
• Writing Strategies Learned
  by Stephen Wilbers
• Print bibliography for writing
• Internet bibliography for writing

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