Month: December 2023

Basic sentence pattern in English

Basic sentence pattern in English In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern:…

Adjectives vs. adverbs (“beautiful” vs. “beautifully”)

Adjectives vs. adverbs (“beautiful” vs. “beautifully”) Adjective An adjective modifies only words that are nouns.…

Source strengths & weaknesses

Contributor: Logan Miller With the Internet’s ever-expanding repository of information, appraising potential sources has become…

Refining searches using Boolean operators

Contributor: Tony DeFilippo When searching online databases, you often get too many or too few…

Writing a successful discussion board post

A discussion board is a “space” where students can further delve into classroom content. It…

Writing effective descriptions

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” - Stephen King…

What is an annotated bibliography?

  An annotated bibliography, in its purest form, is simply a list of sources and…

Time management remote strategies

These strategies can apply no matter why you're working remotely—whether your class is partly or…

Time management

  Contributed by: Kaitie Christensen and Nathan Lachner Working backwards to reach your goal An…

Revising with higher order concerns

Revision implies a “re-seeing” of your text, not just a quick clean up. To effectively…