English Composition 2 Online

R. Rambo, Instructor
Illinois Valley Community College
Office: A-313
Phone: 815-224-0338
E-mail: Randy_Rambo@ivcc.edu

Writing Resources

The resources linked below were designed by the instructor for students in the course and should be especially useful as you are working on writing assignments. For additional online resources, see Other Writing Web Sites and Online Research Resources.

Guidelines for All Essays
  1. The Proper Format for Essays
  2. Expectations for All Essays
  3. IVCC's Grading Standards for Student Essays
  4. Evaluation and Grading Criteria for Essays
  5. Saving Files in Rich Text Format
  6. Getting Started on Essays
  7. Understanding Editing Marks on Essays
Sample Essays and Checklists
  1. Revision Checklist
  2. Checklist: Organization and the Support and Development of Ideas
  3. Checklist: Style and Mechanics
  4. Checklist: Using Online Sources
  5. An Excellent Student Essay on Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
  6. A Sample Research Paper
Thesis, Organization, the Support and Development of Ideas
  1. The Thesis Statement
  2. Organizing and Developing Persuasive Essays
  3. Organizing and Developing Persuasive Paragraphs
  4. Bad Paragraph / Good Paragraph: Writing Effective Persuasive Paragraphs
  5. Effective Argumentation with Claims, Evidence, and Warrants
Punctuation, Grammar, Word Choice
  1. Understanding Editing Marks on Essays
  2. Identifying and Correcting Errors
  3. Integrating Quotations into Sentences
  4. Using Quotations Properly
  5. Commas
  6. Semicolons
  7. Checklist: Style and Mechanics
Style
  1. Integrating Quotations into Sentences
  2. Formal Writing Voice
  3. "Words, Words, Words"
  4. Using Specific and Concrete Diction
  5. Checklist: Style and Mechanics
Writing Papers with Sources
  1. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
  2. Citing Sources
  3. Citing and Documenting Online Sources
  4. Using Secondary Sources Effectively
  5. Documenting Sources from Online Subscription Databases
  6. Using Note Cards
  7. Bibliography Cards
  8. Paragraph on Antigone with MLA Citation and Documentation
  9. Researching and Writing the Research Paper
  10. Using Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries
  11. Using ProQuest and FirstSearch
  12. Avoiding the Five Most Common Problems with Research Papers
  13. Topic Ideas for a Research Paper on Shakespeare's Hamlet
  14. A Sample Research Paper
  15. Documenting Sources from the Hamlet Critical Edition
  16. Sample Works Cited Page for a Paper on Hamlet

This page was last updated on May 26, 2006.
Copyright Randy Rambo, 2004