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Improve How You Study: Metacognitive Intervention to Assess and Improve Study Strategies

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Writing is an active, nonlinear process.

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Reading Handout_T-Chart for Comparing and Contrasting

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Essay Questions: Common Types of Questions & How to Answer Them

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Essay Questions: Common Types of Questions & How to Answer Them

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Summary, Paraphrase, Quotes, & Other Reading-Related Writing Tasks

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Summary, Paraphrase, Quotes, & Other Reading-Related Writing Tasks

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On this page, you'll find help with writing summaries, writing paraphrases, analyzing quotes, and other reading-related writing tasks.

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Study Smart: Effective Study & Learning Strategies

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Study Smart: Effective Study & Learning Strategies

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Use this interactive Google Doc to practice identifying and fixing common comma errors.

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Get familiar with colons and em-dashes and learn why, when, and how to use them.

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Colons & Em-Dashes_workshop by Aleck Webb

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Get help with grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and style (e.g. metaphor and passive voice).

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Grammar is a system of language rules for how words are used in sentences and change in different situations.

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Grammar allows us to combine individual words to make complex meanings and communicate effectively. By learning the rules of grammar, you can write with better clarity while enjoying the freedom to make stylistic choices.

What are the basic rules of grammar?

Some basic rules of grammar include ensuring all sentences have a subject and a verb; placing adjectives directly before the noun they describe, or after it if separated by a verb; and using a comma to connect two ideas.

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It's GO time for generative AI writing assistance Try GrammarlyGO ⟶ Your Complete Guide to English Grammar Grammar is defined as a system of language rules that allows you to combine individual words to make complex meanings. By applying grammar rules to your writing, you'll make it stronger, clearer, and more effective.

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Get help with punctuation, parts of speech, and 20 common grammar errors.

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Welcome to Grammar Essentials!

Why is it important to know about grammar, usage, and punctuation?

This is a great question you might be asking yourself, and if you're not asking it, you probably should be. If you are a native speaker of English, you don't even have to think about it to use grammar correctly, at least for the most part. If you have ever watched a child develop language, you know that, at a very young age, children know what is necessary for language to make sense.

But sometimes, when it comes to formal speaking and writing, we're not familiar with the conventions or the "rules" for correctness. This is where the following pages can be really helpful.

Being correct goes beyond the basic grammar that language needs in order to function. Being correct means knowing the rules that a given culture has established to judge the language of individuals. Think about it: many years ago, ain't was not considered incorrect. How might you react to someone using that word today? We speak of this as usage. There are far more usage rules than grammar rules, and they are far more difficult to master. Many of them you just have to learn, and after you learn them, you have to use them over and over and over in order to incorporate them into your language.

It is important to remember that correctness is always relative to a particular situation and the "rules" for usage will always be changing. Sometimes, it can be tough to keep up with all that change!

This is why a native speaker of English will find the following pages in Grammar Essentials helpful. And, if you are not a native speaker of English, learning or reviewing things like parts of speech, punctuation, and common errors can be helpful in your efforts to learn and feel comfortable with the English language.

The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.

And, if you don't have the want or need to go through all of these pages, the handy menu at the left should help you find exactly what you need.

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Grammar Essentials | Grammar, Usage & Punctuation Tips | OWL

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This is a great question you might be asking yourself, and if you're not asking it, you probably should be. If you are a native speaker of English, you don't even have to think about it to use grammar correctly, at least for the most part.

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Get familiar with the writing process--and use it to complete any writing task for any class.

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Identify fragments in your writing and transform them into complete sentences.

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Create sentence variety and coherence in your body paragraphs using transition words.

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Use this worksheet to create coherence in your essay using transitions.

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Use this worksheet to create, evaluate, or revise your essay's thesis statement.

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Use this worksheet to help you write strong introduction and conclusion paragraphs for your essays.

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Use this free online mind map to help you organize your thinking.

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Visual brainstorming with a team can dramatically improve the quality of the final product because of diversity of perspectives and experiences.

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Bubbl.us - Create Mind Maps | Collaborate and Present Ideas

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Mind map and brainstorm online with Bubbl.us! Create colorful mind maps to print or share with others. Millions of people are using Bubbl.us worldwide to generate ideas, map out processes and create presentations.