Sample Essays

The Hubble Research Paper Example

Back to the Basics Videos

Paragraph, Essay, and Word Choice Videos

Affect-Effect and Principal-Principle Extra Help

Building and Essay--The Six Steps

Cause/Effect Writing Advice

Clauses and Sentencing Made Easy

Clauses and Sentencing Made Easy Video

Clauses and Sentencing Mini-Packet

Circles of Knowledge Schematic

Commas Made Easy

Commonly Confused Words Unit

Comparison-Contrast Writing Advice

Comparison-Contrast Practice

Critical Thinking Packet

Critical Thinking Help--Fallacies, Sophistries, and Useful Advice

Critical Thinking Help--The Asteroid Problem

Critical Thinking Help--The "Holes in the Hedge" Analogy

Critical Thinking Help--"Holes in the Hedge" Idea Generators--the handout that accompanies the lecture

Diction and Word Choice

Diction and Word Choice--Effective Word Choice and Shotgun Words video

Editing Advice

Email Etiquette Tips

Essay Steps--Revised

Essays Made Easy Packet

Essay Grading Sheet

Essays Made Easy--Building an Essay--The Steps Illustrated

Essays Made Easy video

Essay Planning Sheet blank with Milkshake Essay Example

Essay Planning Sheet with Sample Student Essay

Essay Planning Sheet Blank Form

Essay Planning Sheet—in depth form

Expository Structures--an overview of rhetorical structures

How Knowledge Grows

Hubble Research Paper Sequence

Living History Interview

Incorporating Another Author's Words and Ideas into your Essay

Information Literacy Videos and Documents

Introductory Paragraph Advice--How to Write One

The Journal Assignment--excellent therapy for anyone

Julie's Homonyms Help

Making Words Possessive

MLA 8th Edition--2016 and on--SCC Library Handout

Opposing Viewpoints Wish List

Paragraphs Made Easy Packet

Paragraphs Made Easy

Paragraphs Made Easy video

Paragraphs Made Easy--Developing Supporting Details video

Paragraph Shells

Peer Editing How-To's and Steps

Peer Editing Form--Definition Essays

Peer Editing Form--Essays

Peer editing Form—Living History Interview

Peer Editing Form--Summaries

Persuasion-Argumentation Outlines

Pronoun Agreement--Mini-Packet

Quoting from Sources--Helpful Hints and Examples

Research and Documentation Help

Run-on and Comma splice Errors Help

Sentencing Mini-Packet

Steps in the Research Paper Process--Brainstorming Exercise

Subject-Verb Agreement Mini-Packet

Summaries—How-to-write advice

The Truth about Prepositions

Working with Words from a Source--APA Style--the VIDEO

Working with Words from a Source--APA Style--the document

Working with Words from a Source--MLA Style--the VIDEO

Working with Words from a Source--MLA Style--the document

Writing the Introduction to an essay about something you have read.

The Asteroid Problem--Single Person Scenario

The Asteroid Problem--Group Scenario

Word Groups for Proper Sentencing