Resources

Andrea Lunsford Videos

• Writing Beyond the English Classroom
• Everything's an Argument
• Plagiarism in the Remix Culture
• Write Yourself or Be Written
• Writer's Block

Transcripts

• Writing Beyond the English Classroom
• Everything's an Argument
• Plagiarism in the Remix Culture
• Write Yourself or Be Written
• Writer's Block

Research Resources

• APA style for in-text citations
• APA style for a list of references
• APA style for content notes
• Chicago style for in-text citations, notes, and bibliography
• Chicago style for notes and bibliographic entries
• CSE style for a list of references
• CSE style for in-text citations
• MLA Style for In-Text Citations
• MLA Style for a List of Works Cited
• MLA Style for Explanatory and Bibliographic Notes

Student Writing Models

• Memo
• Companion Essay
• Malleability, Misrepresentation, Manipulation
• A Curse and a Blessing
• A Love "Too Thick"
• Birth Order
• Project W.R.I.T.E
• Art for Your Kids
• Art for Your Kids Speech Script
• Health Is Golden
• Daisy Girl
• A Content Analysis of Letters to the Editor
• Instant Messaging: The Language of Youth Literacy
• Evaluation of the Value of the Gas Constant R
• Field Measurements of Photosynthesis
• Niemann-Pick Disease
• The Human Genome Project
• Analysis of Cytokine Proposal
• Red, White, and Everywhere
• Red, White, and Everywhere First Draft
• Red, White, and Everywhere Peer Review
• Letter of Application
• Reflections of an Empire
• Leadership Roles
• Final Draft (MLA Style)
• First Draft (MLA Style)
• Response to Questions about Attitude Survey
• Hollywood and the Hero
• Argument Essay (MLA Style)
• Three-Dimensional Photography for Calculating
• Film Analysis (MLA Style)
• Video Games: Buyers Beware!
• Sweet Home Chicago
• He Wants to Put His Story Next to Hers
• Life's Not a Paragraph
• Locked in a Violent Embrace
• Résumé
• Scannable Résumé

Top Twenty

• Wrong word
• Missing comma after an introductory element
• Incomplete or missing documentation
• Vague pronoun reference
• Spelling (including homonyms)
• Mechanical error with a quotation
• Unnecessary comma
• Unnecessary or missing capitalization
• Missing word
• Faulty sentence structure
• Missing comma with a nonrestrictive element
• Unnecessary shift in verb tense
• Missing comma in a compound sentence
• Unnecessary or missing apostrophe (including its/it’s)
• Fused (run-on) sentence
• Comma splice
• Lack of pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Poorly integrated quotation
• Unnecessary or missing hyphen
• Sentence fragment

Writing Resources

• Critical Reading: Analyzing an Article
• Essay Exam Advice
• Stasis Theory
• Taking a Writing Inventory
• Writing about Literature
• Writing Portfolios