Application Bites
- General vs Specific Writing in College Application Essays
- Making Application Essays Personal
- Outlining College Application Essays
Citation Bites
- APA7 vs MLA8
- APA: Cover Page
- APA7: In-text Citation--Paraphrasing
- APA7: In-text Citation--Quoting
- APA7: References-Authors
- APA7: References-Format
- APA7: References-Print Sources
- APA7: References-Non-Print Sources
- CMS/Chicago/Turabian Style
- CMS vs MLA
- CMS Book
- CMS Endnotes
- CMS Footnotes
- CMS Formatting Footnotes
- CMS Periodicals (Journal)
- CMS Periodicals (Magazine)
- CMS Reference Page
- CMS Title Page
- CMS Web Source
- MLA 8: Citing an Article in a Database
- MLA 8: Citing an Article in a Print Newspaper
- MLA 8: Citing a Book
- Citing Indirect Sources
- MLA 8: In-text Documentation
- MLA 8: Citing a Source from a Reference Book
- MLA 8: Citing a Video
- MLA 8: Citing a Web Page
- MLA 8: Quoting Poetry
Grammar Bites
- Adjective Order
- Adjective and Verb Placement
- Adverbs vs Adjectives
- Because
- Clauses
- Conjunctions
- Contractions
- Dangling Modifiers
- Definite Article
- Indefinite Article
- Interjections
- Me vs I
- Misplaced Modifiers
- Parallel Structure
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Pronoun Reference
- Sentence Structure
- Split Infinitives
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Verb Tense Agreement
Literary Devices
Often Confused Words
- Accept vs Except
- Affect vs Effect
- Allusion vs Illusion
- Alter vs Altar
- Amount vs Number
- Compliment vs Complement
- Either vs Neither vs Nor
- Everyday vs Every Day
- Farther vs Further
- Fewer vs Less
- Its vs It's
- Lose vs Loose
- Most vs Almost
- Principal vs Principle
- Than vs Then
- There, Their, They're
- These vs This
- Two, To, Too
- Used to vs Use to
- Vary vs Very
- Where, Were, Wear
- Who vs That
- Who vs Whom
- You vs You're
Presentation Bites
Punctuation Bites
- Colon
- Ellipses
- Formatting Titles (quotation marks vs italics)
- Hyphen vs Dash
- Interrupter Comma
- List Comma
- Opener Comma
- Parentheses
- Possessive Apostrophe
- Quotation Marks
- Run-on Comma
- Separating Two Complete Sentences
- Semicolons
- Sentence Fragments
- Single and Double Quotations
Reading Bites
Research Bites
Resume & Cover Letters
- Writing Effective Resumes and Cover Letters
- Cover Letter Examples
- Sample Resume 1
- Sample Resume 2
- Sample Resume 3
- Action Verbs for Resume
Writing Bites
- Active vs Passive Voice
- Annotated Bibliography
- Avoiding Repetition
- Brainstorming
- Building Transitions
- Changing Font Style and Size
- Cover Letters
- Discussion Posts (for online classes)
- Drafting
- Editing vs Revising
- Emailing your Professor
- Freewriting
- Introducing Quotations
- Logical Errors
- Literature Reviews
- Structuring a Paper
- Summary & Analysis
- Thesis Statements
- Tips for Making a Presentation
- Topic Sentences
- Writing Strong Core Paragraphs
- Writing Strong Set-up / Introduction Paragraphs
- Writing Strong "So What?" / Conclusion Paragraphs
Technology Bites
- D2L Content Tab
- D2L Dropbox
- Double Spacing (in MSWord)
- Changing Font Style and Size
- Formatting a Hanging Indentation
- Google Docs--Sharing
- Inserting a Header, Footer, or Page Number
- Text Alignments