OWL: Verb Tenses
Summary: This handout explains and describes the sequence of verb tenses in English. Contributors:Chris Berry, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth AngeliLast Edited: 2013-09-14 09:29:01
Abstracts
Summary: This handout discusses how to write good abstracts for reports. It covers informational and descriptive abstracts and gives pointers for success.
OWL: Creating a Thesis Statement
Summary: This resource provides tips for creating a thesis statement and examples of different types of thesis statements. Contributors:Elyssa Tardiff, Allen BrizeeLast Edited: 2014-02-10 10:44:43 Tips for Writing Your Thesis Statement 1. Determine what kind of paper you are writing:
Introduction § Harvard Guide to Using Sources
Welcome to the Harvard Guide to Using Sources. As a required text for your Expos course, the Guide introduces you to the fundamentals of using sources in academic papers. You will be expected to understand these fundamentals as you write papers at Harvard, both for your Expos course and for the courses you will take beyond Expos. When you use sources in academic writing, you engage in a conversation with scholars whose work you have been asked to read, analyze, or discuss in your courses. In the courses you will take at Harvard, your professors will introduce you to the major debates and questions in their fields and invite you to join the scholarly conversation by writing your own papers.
Christmas
Below, you will find a wide range of ideas and resources to help you when you are teaching children at Christmas time. If you have any relevant resources to share, please email them and I will add them to this page. Thank you!
OWL Writing Exercises
These OWL resources offer information and exercises on how to clarify sentences and specifically discuss sentence clauses, sentence fragments, sentence structure, and subject-verb agreement. Please use the navigation bar on the left or the links below to access the individual exercises. Sentence Clauses: Independent and Dependent Clauses This resource provides exercises on the differences between independent and dependent clauses that you may print. Once you print the exercise, identify and correct the misuse of these clauses.
Comparing the Book to the Movie
Watching a movie after reading the book is a wonderful way to encourage students to think critically about how each medium presented roughly the same information. Here are some questions to ask: Think about the setting of the book. Did the setting in the movie look like you had imagined it (Good ones for this are Harry Potter, Holes, Narnia, and Where the Wild Things Are)? If not, how was it different?
OWL: Paraphrase Exercises
Summary: This resource discusses how to paraphrase correctly and accurately. Contributors:Purdue OWLLast Edited: 2014-10-10 08:56:34 Learn to borrow from a source without plagiarizing. For more information on paraphrasing, as well as other ways to integrate sources into your paper, see the Purdue OWL handout Quoting Paraphrasing, and Summarizing. For more information about writing research papers, see our resource on this subject.
Clear Academic Writing Templates For Free On The Web
A response essay can be simply defined as a response to the work of an author. It is your personal attitude and reaction to the ideas that have been revealed in the author's work and how its application affects the life of the author. Any arguments that are expressed are extremely subjective in character and they directly correspond to the critical abilities of the author.
