master lit topics

Creating a Thesis Statement
Developing an Outline
Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions for Argument Papers
Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions for Exploratory Papers
Invention Presentation
Prewriting (Invention)
Proofreading Your Writing
Reverse Outlining: An Exercise for Taking Notes and Revising Your Work
Starting the Writing Process
Understanding Writing Assignments
Writer's Block/ Writer's Anxiety
Writing Process Presentation
Professional, Technical, and Job Search Writing
Academic Cover Letters
Action Verbs to Describe Skills, Jobs, and Accomplishments in Employment Documents
Audience Analysis
Business Letters: Accentuating the Positives
Color Theory Presentation
Cover Letter Presentation
Cover Letter Workshop
Cover Letters 1: Quick Tips
Cover Letters 2: Preparing to Write a Cover Letter
Cover Letters 3: Writing Your Cover Letter
Designing an Effective PowerPoint Presentation
Effective Workplace Writing
Email Etiquette
Email Etiquette for Students
Example Employment Documents
Handbook on Report Formats
HATS: A Design Procedure for Routine Business Documents
INDOT Workshop Resources for Engineers
Job Acceptance Letter Presentation
Job Skills Checklist
Letters Concerning Employment
Management Resumes
Medical Writing
Memo Writing
Model Letters for Various Purposes
Parallel Structure in Professional Writing
Paramedic Method: A Lesson in Writing Concisely
Prioritizing Your Concerns for Effective Business Writing
Reference Sheets
Resume Design
Resume Presentation
Resume Workshop
Resumes 1: Introduction to Resumes
Resumes 2: Resume Sections
Resumes 3: When to Use Two Pages or More
Resumes 4: Scannable Resumes
Reverse Paramedic Method
Revision in Business Writing
Sales Letters: Four Point Action Closing
Scannable Resumes Presentation
Tailoring Employment Documents For a Specific Audience
Teaching Detailed Writing and Procedural Transitions
Tips & Terms for the International Student's Job Search
Tone in Business Writing
Using Fonts with Purpose
Visual Rhetoric
Visual Rhetoric Slide Presentation
Visual Rhetoric: Analyzing Visual Documents
Writing a Job Acceptance Letter
Writing a White Paper
Writing for a Chinese Business Audience
Writing for a North American Business Audience
Writing for an Indian Business Audience
Writing Report Abstracts
Writing Scientific Abstracts Presentation
Writing the Basic Business Letter
Writing the Curriculum Vitae
Writing the Personal Statement
General Academic Writing
Adding Emphasis in Writing
Annotated Bibliographies
Avoiding Plagiarism
Color Theory Presentation
Conciseness
Creating a Thesis Statement
Designing an Effective PowerPoint Presentation
Developing an Outline
Effective Persuasion Presentation
Email Etiquette for Professors
Email Etiquette for Students
Essay Writing
Establishing Arguments
Guidelines for Fair Use
Higher Order Concerns (HOCs) and Lower Order Concerns (LOCs)
Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions for Argument Papers
Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions for Exploratory Papers
Invention Presentation
Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism
Logic in Argumentative Writing
Organizing Your Argument Presentation
Paragraphs & Paragraphing
Paramedic Method: A Lesson in Writing Concisely
Peer Review Presentation
Prewriting (Invention)
Proofreading Your Writing
Punctuation
Purdue OWL Podcasts
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
Reverse Outlining: An Exercise for Taking Notes and Revising Your Work
Reverse Paramedic Method
Sentence Variety
Starting the Writing Process
The Rhetorical Situation
Transitions and Transitional Devices
Understanding Writing Assignments
Using Appropriate Language
Using Fonts with Purpose
Visual Rhetoric
Visual Rhetoric Slide Presentation
Visual Rhetoric: Analyzing Visual Documents
Writer's Block/ Writer's Anxiety
Writing a Book Report
Writing a Book Review
Writing a Literary Analysis Presentation
Writing Definitions
Writing in Literature (Detailed Discussion)
Writing Process Presentation
Research and Citation
Annotated Bibliographies
APA Formatting and Style Guide
APA Overview and Workshop
Avoiding Plagiarism
Chicago Manual of Style
Conducting an Interview Presentation
Conducting Primary Research
Documenting Electronic Sources
Evaluating Sources of Information
Formatting in Sociology (ASA Style)
Guidelines for Fair Use
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
MLA Overview and Workshop
Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
Research: Overview
Resources for Documenting Sources in the Disciplines
Searching the World Wide Web
Writing a Research Paper
Writing Scientific Abstracts Presentation
Grammar and Mechanics
Active and Passive Voice
Adjective or Adverb
Apostrophe
Appositives
Articles: A versus An
Capital Letters
Commas
Conquering the Comma
Count and Noncount Nouns
Dangling Modifiers
Grammar and ESL Exercises
Higher Order Concerns (HOCs) and Lower Order Concerns (LOCs)
How to Use Adjectives and Adverbs
How to Use Articles (a/an/the)
Hyphens
Independent and Dependent Clauses
Irregular Verbs
Numbers
Parallel Structure
Parts of Speech Overview
Prepositions
Pronouns
Punctuation
Quotation Marks
Relative Pronouns
Sentence Clarity
Sentence Clarity Presentation
Sentence Fragments
Sentence Punctuation Patterns
Spelling
Subject/Verb Agreement
Transitions and Transitional Devices
Verb Tenses
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Adjective or Adverb
Count and Noncount Nouns
ESL Orientation for Writing Lab Tutorials
ESL Teacher Resources
Grammar and ESL Exercises
How to Use Adjectives and Adverbs
How to Use Articles (a/an/the)
Irregular Verbs
Numbers
Parts of Speech Overview
Prepositions
Relative Pronouns
Sentence Punctuation Patterns
Subject/Verb Agreement
Tips & Terms for the International Student's Job Search
Two-Part (Phrasal) Verbs (idioms)
US Higher Education: A Cultural Introduction
Verb Tenses
Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives
Writing for a Chinese Business Audience
Writing for a North American Business Audience
Writing for an Indian Business Audience
Writing in North American Higher Education: A Primer for International Students
Internet Literacy
Documenting Electronic Sources
Email Etiquette
Email Etiquette for Professors
Email Etiquette for Students
Evaluating Sources of Information
Guidelines for Fair Use
Purdue OWL Podcasts
Searching the World Wide Web
Teaching OSDDP (Open Source Development and Documentation) Usability Project: A Guide for Professional Writing Instructors
Visual Rhetoric
Writing in the Social Sciences
Child Development and Family Studies Resource Repository
Conducting an Interview Presentation
Conducting Primary Research
Formatting in Sociology (ASA Style)
Social Work Literature Review Guidelines
Writing in Psychology: Experimental Report Writing
Writing Scientific Abstracts Presentation
Writing with Statistics
Writing in Engineering
Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)
Handbook on Report Formats
INDOT Workshop Resources for Engineers
Reverse Paramedic Method
Teaching Detailed Writing and Procedural Transitions
Visual Rhetoric Slide Presentation
Writing Engineering Reports
Writing Scientific Abstracts Presentation
Literary Analysis and Criticism
Image in Poetry
Literary Terms
Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism
Reverse Outlining: An Exercise for Taking Notes and Revising Your Work
Writing a Book Review
Writing a Literary Analysis Presentation
Writing About Fiction
Writing About Literature
Writing About Poetry
Writing in Literature (Detailed Discussion)
Creative Writing
Pattern and Variation in Poetry
Pattern and Variation: Aural
Pattern and Variation: Visual
Tutoring Creative Writing Students
Teaching Writing
Conducting an Interview Presentation
Effective Persuasion Presentation
Email Etiquette for Professors
ESL Orientation for Writing Lab Tutorials
Invention Presentation
Job Acceptance Letter Presentation
Peer Review Presentation
Purdue OWL Podcasts
Teaching Detailed Writing and Procedural Transitions
Teaching OSDDP (Open Source Development and Documentation) Usability Project: A Guide for Professional Writing Instructors
The Rhetorical Situation
Writing a Literary Analysis Presentation
Writing Across the Curriculum: An Introduction
Writing Process Presentation
Writing Scientific Abstracts Presentation
Tutoring Writing
Effective Persuasion Presentation
ESL Orientation for Writing Lab Tutorials
Invention Presentation
Peer Review Presentation
Purdue OWL Podcasts
The Writing Conference: Meeting One-on-One with Students
Tutoring a Resume
Tutoring Cover Letters
Tutoring Creative Writing Students
Writing a Literary Analysis Presentation
Writing Process Presentation
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