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Invention

  • Overview of the Writing Process
  • Invention Techniques
  • Knowing Your Audience
  • Five Qualities of Good Writing
  • Guidelines for Critical Reading
  • Annotating a Text
  • Guidelines for Writing a Summary
  • Developing a Thesis Statement
  • Writing a Critique
  • Preparing for an Essay Examination
  • Glossary of Essay Terms
  • Writing a Response or Reaction Paper

Organization

  • Organizing an Essay
  • Guidelines for Outlining
  • Developing an Informal Outline
  • Developing a Formal Outline
  • Guidelines for Paragraphing
  • Developing a Paragraph
  • Cohesion

Rhetorical Strategies

  • Patterns of Development
  • Description
  • Argumentation
  • Comparison and Contrast
  • Logical Fallacy

Revision

  • Guidelines for Revision
  • Revising the Essay
  • Revision Checklist
  • Guidelines for Peer Editing

Guides to Research and Writing from Sources

  • General Guidelines
  • Notetaking
  • Guidelines for Outlining
  • Developing an Informal Outline
  • Developing a Formal Outline
  • Writing an Annotated Bibliography
  • Quotation, Paraphrase, and Plagiarism
  • Using the Interview as a Source
  • Research Checklist

Documentation Styles

  • MLA Documentation Style
  • APA Documentation Style
  • Chicago Documentation Style
  • AMA Documentation Style
  • ASA Documentation Style

English 002/005

  • Overview of ESL Semester Courses

English 120

  • The Writing Portfolio

English 220

  • Writing About Literature

English 200/300/400-Level Courses

  • Writing about Literature: Asking Questions
  • Explicating a Poem
  • Glossary of Literary Terms

Hunter College: Overview

  • Writing at Hunter

Writing in the Arts and Humanities

  • Writing about Art
    • Guidelines for Writing about Art
    • Writing about Art: Asking Questions
  • Writing about Film
  • Writing about History
  • Writing about Literature
    • Writing about Literature: Asking Questions
    • Explicating a Poem
    • Glossary of Literary Terms
  • Writing about Music
  • Writing about Philosophy
  • Writing about Theater

Writing in the Sciences

  • Writing in the Biological Sciences
  • Writing in the Health Sciences
  • Writing Lab Reports
  • Writing an Abstract in the Sciences
  • Writing a Literature Review in the Sciences

Writing in Social Work

  • Writing in Social Work

Sentence Structure

  • Overview of Sentence Structure
  • Methods for Connecting Ideas
  • Guidelines for Connecting Clauses
  • Using Conjunctions
  • Sentence Fragments
  • Run-ons and Comma Splices
  • Understanding Relative Clauses
  • Using Transitional Expressions
  • Understanding Conditional Sentences

The Verb System

  • Overview of Verb Tenses
  • Active and Passive Voice
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Using a Two-Tense Verb System
  • Using Auxiliary Verbs
  • Using Modal Auxiliary Verbs
  • Using Gerunds and Infinitives
  • Using Irregular Verbs

Adjectives and Adverbs

  • Using Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Using Participles

Articles and Determiners

  • Using Definite and Indefinite Articles

Nouns and Pronouns

  • Using Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Prepositions

  • Using Prepositions

Punctuation and Capitalization

  • Using End Punctuation
  • Guidelines for Capitalization
  • Using the Comma
  • Using the Colon and Semicolon
  • Using the Apostrophe

Spelling

  • Overview of Spelling

Vocabulary and Idiom

  • Glossary of Usage
  • Using Phrasal Verbs

Business Writing

  • Writing a Business Letter
  • Writing a Cover Letter

The Resume

  • Writing the Resume

The Personal Statement

  • Writing a Personal Statement
  • The Personal Statement: Sample Questions
  • The Personal Statement: Checklist

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