Grammar Proficiency Exam

• GPE Practice Exam     Answers
• GPE Study Packet     Answers

Reading

• Stragegies
  • https://students.dartmouth.edu/academic-skills/learning-resources/learning-strategies/reading-techniques
  • https://wr.english.fsu.edu/College-Composition/The-Inkwell/Critical-Reading-Activities
  • https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/guide.cfm?guideid=31
  • https://www.ramapo.edu/crw/reading/
• Annotating a Chapter
  • http://faculty.catawba.edu/jmbitzer/War/TextAnnotation.pdf
  • http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/rwc/handouts/the-writing-process-1/invention/Annotating-a-Text

Preparation

• Pre-writing Technique
• Research Stages
• Outline Format
  • http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/AEP/EN104/outline_essay.htm

Content

• Argument
  • http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/argument/
• Toulmin Method
• Logic
  • https://louisville.edu/writingcenter/for-students-1/handouts-and-resources/handouts-1/logos-ethos-pathos-kairos
• Using Sources—Quoting and Paraphrasing
• Literature Review
  • http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/literature-reviews/

Structure

• Basic Essay
  • http://cpartida.com/Writing.pdf
• Introductions
  • http://www.umuc.edu/current-students/learning-resources/writing-center/writing-resources/parts-of-an-essay/introductions.cfm
• Conclusions
  • http://cpartida.com/Conclusions.pdf
  • http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/conclusions/
• Thesis
  • http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Thesis.html
• Cause/Effect
• Transitions
  • http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Transitions.html

Style

• Clarity
• Gender Issues
  • http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/grammar-and-syntax/gender-neutral-language/
• Tone
  • http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Services/Writing-Center/Writing-Resources/Style-Diction-Tone-and-Voice
• Formality

Grammar

• http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/index2.htm

Mechanics

Formatting

• Citation Help
  • http://www.lonestar.edu/library/citation-help.htm
• MLA First page set-up
• APA First page set-up
• Paraphrasing and Quoting
• Microsoft Word

Proofreading

• Strategy
  • http://cpartida.com/ProofreadingStrategy.pdf
  • http://writing.umn.edu/sws/quickhelp/process/editing.html

Revision

• Strategy
  • Revision Stragegy