Handouts from Georgia Perimeter College and Other Colleges

Handouts from Georgia Perimeter College

Writing Handouts by Steven Hale

• The Stages of Writing
• Choosing an Audience
• Concept Mapping for Advertising Analysis
• Concept Mapping
• Self Talk and Writing

Documentation and Plagiarism

• Avoiding Plagiarism by Susan Thomas
• Humanities Cheating/Plagiarism Policy

Using the Computer

• Search Engines and Evaluating Information from the Internet

Projects and Assignments

• Resources on Rhetorical Strategies for Advertising Analysis Paper
• Resources on Rhetorical Strategies for Speech Analysis Paper
• English 1101 Research Project Fall 2006

Outlining

• The Outline from the Lawrenceville online writing lab; requires free Adobe Acrobat PDF software if you don't already have it installed on your computer. (Note: use the sentence outline at the end as your model, not the topic outline. Also, by my standards, if there is a 1, there does not necessarily have to be a 2; in other words, you may have only) one concrete example to support a given letter).

Studying Literature

• Writing about Literature
• Characteristics of a Good Theme Statement
• Organizing and developing a paper about literature
• Preparing for an essay about poetry
• Sample essay on sound in poetry
• Internet Resources on Fred Chappell
• How to Analyze a Passage in a Play
• Poetry Readings on the Internet
• Internet Resources on Othello
• Internet Resources on Tartuffe
• "The Canonization" by John Donne
• Recommended translations of World Literature

Handouts from Other Schools

Composition and Grammar

• Writing--General
• Prewriting and Planning
• Organization and Outlining
• Grammar
• ESL (English as a Second Language)

Documentation and the Research Paper

General

• Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing Purdue Online Writing Lab

Documenting Print Sources

• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format from Purdue University. Includes a discussion of citing electronic sources.
• MLA Handbook Bibliographic Format for References from University of Georgia Libraries

Documenting Electronic Sources

Electronic sources can be very tricky to cite in a paper, since there are usually no page numbers. Documentation is especially difficult. For example, an electronic source is often a republication of a print source, and in this case, the print source should be cited as well as the electronic one. Unfortunately, there are many guides that present confusing and/or contradictory advice on how to cite and document electronic sources using the MLA format. The only official way to cite electronic sources in MLA format is presented in the MLA Handbook for Student Writers, Fifth Edition, a printed book available at the reference desk (and for sale from the MLA, online or in bookstores). The following websites present partial versions of MLA format. When in doubt, consult the MLA Handbook.

• See the above Purdue OWL handout Using MLA Format
• Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources from the Bedford/St. Martin text Online: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger. A very detailed guide, based on the MLA Handbook. In several ways, this resource supplements (unofficially) the MLA handbook (the original essay by Harnack and Kleppinger was entitled "Beyond the MLA Handbook"). For example Online suggests how to cite and document sources in an electronic text (like a website).
• Basic Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice Walker. For giving credit to online sources in both humanities and scientific styles. The humanities style combines MLA and Chicago styles.

Special Cases: Online Databases

• Citing Electronic Resources: Provides guidelines for citing articles from Galileo databases.
• How to Cite Infotrac and Galenet Sources, from Gale. Useful for citing Galenet articles

Regents' Exam

• Regents' Test Page from GSU; requires frames capable browser
  • GSU Regents' Test Page without frames
  • GSU Regents' Test Page Sections of interest to students; without frames
• Tips for Taking the Regents Test from Georgia Perimeter College
• Regents' Exam Handouts from the University of Georgia and other schools