WORKSHEETS (pdfs) WRITING
1. Writing Academic Papers in the United States 2. Brainstorming and Organizing Ideas 3. Outlining an Essay 4. Avoiding Informal Language in Academic Writing
5. Taking Lecture Notes 6. Taking Notes from a Journal Article 7. Taking Notes from a Primary Source Document
8. Using a Dictionary 9. Using Online Sources to Find the Meaning of Words 10. Using Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots to Find the Meaning of a Word 11. Recording and Reviewing Vocabulary 12. Using Books and Websites to Improve Your Vocabulary 13. Finding Specific Background Information 14. Using Resources to Build Background Knowledge
15. Understanding and Interpreting Line Graphs 16. Understanding and Interpreting Bar Graphs 17. Understanding and Interpreting Circle (Pie) Graphs 18. Comparing Two Graphs 19. Using Vocabulary to Describe Graphs [coming soon]
20. Using the Parts of Speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives…) 21. Pronoun Agreement 22. How to Tell Nouns from Adjectives 23. Using Articles 24. Word Form Errors 25. Possessives
26. Verb Tenses 27. Choosing the Correct Verb Tense and Form in Context 28. Using Verb Tenses Correctly 29. Reported Speech [coming soon] 30. Subject-Verb Agreement: Basic Rules 31. Subject-Verb Agreement: Additional Rules [coming soon] 32. Using the –ED Form of Regular Verbs 33. Simple Present (It causes…) vs. Present Continuous (It is causing…) 34. Simple Past Tense (It caused...) vs. Past Progressive Tense (It was causing…) 35. Simple Past Tense (It caused…) vs. Past Perfect Tense (It had caused…) 36. Using the Present Perfect Tense (It has caused…) 37. Modal Verbs (can, might, should, must, have to…) 38. Passive Voice [coming soon] 39. Common Errors with Passive Voice [coming soon]
40. Word Order 41. Word Order: Common Problems 42. Identifying and Correcting Fragments 43. Run-ons and Comma Splices: Problems and Solutions 44. Parallel Structure 45. Coordinating Conjunctions (and, but, or…) 46. Common Problems when Using Coordinating Conjunctions 47. Subordinating Conjunctions Introducing Adjective Clauses (who, whom, which, that, whose, when, where) 48. Subordinating Conjunctions Introducing Clauses of Reason and Purpose (because, so that…) 49. Subordinating Conjunctions Introducing Conditional Clauses (if, in case, unless…) 50. Subordinating Conjunctions Introducing Time Clauses (after, because, as soon as…) 51. Subordinating Conjunctions Introducing Clauses of Contrast and Direct Contrast (although, while…)
52. Spanish Language Transfer Errors: Explanation and Examples 53. Russian Language Transfer Errors: Explanation and Examples 54. Korean Language Transfer Errors: Explanation and Examples [coming soon] 55. Chinese Language Transfer Errors: Explanation and Examples [coming soon]
56. Checklist for Identifying and Correcting Fragments, Comma Splices, and Verb Errors 57. Checklist for Identifying and Correcting Errors with Articles and Noncount Nouns 58. Checklist for Identifying and Correcting Errors with Plurals, Possessives, and Spelling
59. How to Identify and Correct Fragments (Incomplete Sentences) 60. How to Identify and Correct Comma Splices (Commas between Sentences) 61. How to Identify and Correct Errors with Verbs 62. How to Identify and Correct Missing –ED Verb Endings 63. How to Identify and Correct Missing –S Verb Endings 64. How to Identify and Correct Errors with Articles and Noncount Nouns 65. How to Identify and Correct Errors with Plurals 66. How to Identify and Correct Missing Possessives
