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Meet the Literacy Center Team
Pictures of the Literacy Team in Action
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Grammar and Syntax
Wordiness
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Avoiding Pleonasms
Beware of the Use of Expletives
Avoiding Cliches and other Unnecessarily Long Phrases
Be Aware of the Use of Passive Voice
Practice!
Paraprashing
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Steps to Effective Paraphrasing
Examples of Paraphrasing
Practice on Your Own!!!
Further Resources
Idea Development
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Pre-Writing
Organization
MLA In-Text Citation
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Why should I use in-text citations?
What does an in-text citation look like?
What are some rules of proper MLA in-text citation?
Punctuations
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The Comma
The Colon
The Period or Full Stop
The Interrogation or Question Mark
The Exclamation Mark
The Dash
The Parenthesis
The Quotation Mark