Dr. Jadwin: General Guidelines

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Need some help with grammar, mechanics, and style?
The Learning Center at the University of Victoria/Houston offers an online "handbook" containing excellent tutorials followed by a variety of exercises that can either be printed out or completed online. These exercises are ungraded - no one will ever know that you've taken them - and you can proceed at your own pace.

Grammar and Usage: Resources and Exercises

Active/Passive
Apostrophes
Capitalization
Comma Splices
Comma Usage
Dangling Modifiers
Fragments
Inclusive Language

Parallelism
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Run-on Sentences
Semicolon Usage
Subject-Verb Agreement
Passive vs. active constructions (from the University of Calgary Writing Center, with interactive quiz)

Documentation, Coherence, and Style: Resources and Exercise

Abstracts
APA Guide
Audience Analysis
Business Correspondence
MLA Guide
Transitional Phrases

Paragraphs
Paraphrasing
Research Papers
Resumes & Job Letters
Summarizing
Business Netiquette

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