English Composition 2
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Course Web Pages on Writing
The resources linked below are especially important. They presents information about many aspects of your writing that should be helpful as you work on your essays for the course.
Guidelines for All Essays
- The Proper Format for Essays
- Expectations for All Essays
- IVCC's Grading Standards for Student Essays
- Evaluation and Grading Criteria for Essays
- Saving Files in Rich Text Format
- Getting Started on Essays
- Understanding Editing Marks on Essays
Sample Essays and Checklists
- Revision Checklist
- Checklist: Organization and the Support and Development of Ideas
- Checklist: Style and Mechanics
- Checklist: Using Online Sources
- An Excellent Student Essay on Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
- A Sample Research Paper
Thesis, Organization, the Support and Development of Ideas
- The Thesis Statement
- Organizing and Developing Persuasive Essays
- Organizing and Developing Persuasive Paragraphs
- Bad Paragraph / Good Paragraph: Writing Effective Persuasive Paragraphs
- Effective Argumentation with Claims, Evidence, and Warrants
Punctuation, Grammar, Word Choice
- Understanding Editing Marks on Essays
- Identifying and Correcting Errors
- Integrating Quotations into Sentences
- Using Quotations Properly
- Commas
- Semicolons
- Checklist: Style and Mechanics
Style
- Integrating Quotations into Sentences
- Formal Writing Voice
- "Words, Words, Words"
- Using Specific and Concrete Diction
- Checklist: Style and Mechanics
Writing with Papers with Sources
- Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
- Citing Sources
- Citing and Documenting Online Sources
- Using Secondary Sources Effectively
- Documenting Sources from Online Subscription Databases
- Using Note Cards
- Bibliography Cards
- Paragraph on Antigone with MLA Citation and Documentation
- Researching and Writing the Research Paper
- Using Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries
- Using ProQuest and FirstSearch
- Avoiding the Five Most Common Problems with Research Papers
- Topic Ideas for a Research Paper on Shakespeare's Hamlet
- A Sample Research Paper
- Documenting Sources from the Hamlet Critical Edition
- Sample Works Cited Page for a Paper on Hamlet