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English Composition 2

Writing Resources

The resources linked below are designed for students in the course and should be especially useful as you are working on writing assignments. For additional online resources, see the Other Web Sites page.

Guidelines for All Essays

  1. The Proper Format for Essays
  2. Inserting Headers into Essays
  3. Template for Essays
  4. Expectations for All Essays
  5. IVCC's Grading Standards for Student Essays
  6. Evaluation and Grading Criteria for Essays
  7. Saving Files in Rich Text Format
  8. Getting Started 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. Identifying and Correcting Errors
  2. Integrating Quotations into Sentences
  3. Using Quotations Properly
  4. Commas
  5. Semicolons
  6. 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. Citing Sources and Preparing the Works Cited Page for Essay 3
  2. Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
  3. Citing Sources
  4. Citing and Documenting Online Sources
  5. Using Secondary Sources Effectively
  6. Documenting Sources from Online Subscription Databases
  7. Using Note Cards
  8. Bibliography Cards
  9. Paragraph on Antigone with MLA Citation and Documentation
  10. Researching and Writing the Research Paper
  11. Using Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries
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  12. Avoiding the Five Most Common Problems with Research Papers
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  13. A Sample Research Paper

Evaluation of Essays

  1. Evaluation and Grading Criteria for Essays
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  2. Expectations for All Essays
  3. IVCC's Grading Standards for Student Essays
  4. Rubric for Essays

This page was last updated on May 29, 2012. Copyright Randy Rambo, 2011