SMC Writing Center
Techniques of Sentence Combination
(Discourse Markers
Dictionaries, Thesauri, Encyclopedias,
Translations
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Correction Symbols,
Revision Strategies, &Words to Avoid in Academic Writing
Citing Electronic Resources
(see also Steve Burks'
Citing Internet and Electronic Sources)
The Structure of a Paragraph
Writing a Paraphrase
Writing a Summary
MEMOS
Writing a Business Memo--Guidelines
(see also
How to write memos ,
including
Organisation of Memos,
Formality in Memos,
Memo Headings,
Memo writing scenario and practice task)
RUBRICS
Resume Rubric
Cover Letter Rubric
Memo Rubric (weighted)Rubric for evaluating business writing
(general, unweighted)
E-MAIL
Adam Turner's
Guidelines for writing E-Mail
and
Sample E-Mail format |
Effective Presentations --
PowerPoint slide show; advance
topics with mouse clicks
Guidelines for Team Presentations
Presentation Rubric
(individual)
Presentation Rubric 2
(individual, analytic)
Team Presentation Rubric
Analytic Scale for Assessing Speaking
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Academic
Skills:
Note-taking Strategies
Standard Symbols & Abbreviations
Discourse Cues
The Cornell Method of Note-taking
--
Illustration
Using the Cornell Method:
Notetaking Video (8:24 minutes)
Notetaking Video with Captions
(8:24 minutes)
A Mind Map for Note-taking Skills
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Reading Strategies
Vocabulary Strategies
The Corpus of Contemporary American
English (COCA)
JusttheWord -
excellent site for synonyms and word combinations/collocations
Christine's Links to Useful TESL/CALL
Resources--Online Dictionaries (including Dictionaries, Thesauri,
Encyclopedias)
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Sentence Parts and Parts of Speech
Articles -- Decision Tree
Articles - Exercise
Articles -
Exercise (answers)
Proofread
article errors
See also this Cloze Exercise on
Do We Really Need to Sleep--A, An, The, or
No Article
Team Evaluation: Error Analysis
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