Skills
Writing Help
Writing Help
- Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/ has lots of great resources for you, including
- comma rules and quotes within a quote
- use their guidance whenever you create a Works Cited page
- CITATIONS -see Citation Reference Guide to the right--> and Purdue OWL's in-text citation guide
- What is a précis?
- Paragraph Chart Template - a tool that can help you organize paragraphs as you write
- How to write Context and Linking Phrases to introduce your evidence.
- How to format dialogue & longer quotes in a block when using it in your writing as evidence - see this helpful guide & note that the ending punctuation is different in a block than it is within a sentence.
- abbreviations guidelines from Ashford University
- Scroll to the bottom for more help related to Grammar.
Scroll down to see more on Research standards
Scroll down to see more on Research standards
Reading Skills
Reading Skills
- Determining tone (author's attitude toward subject or audience) - examples, more examples, a source that emphasizes positive, neutral, and negative
- Annotating - Look at the Annotation skills document to the right
- Rhetoric - Ethos, Logos, Pathos explanation
Discussion & Questioning Skills
Discussion & Questioning Skills
- Discussion Guidelines (includes Question types and samples as well)
- Discussion Log Model - to help you see the types of recording you can do after a discussion
- contains the targets for discussion as well
- Our guide on "How to Ask Questions - Question Types"
Research
Research
Information Literacy Targets -
Information Literacy Targets -
all US History and American Studies classes will develop these skills in a Research Paper assignment
all US History and American Studies classes will develop these skills in a Research Paper assignment
Use the Library’s US History Research Page for a set of resources that will help you conduct your research.
Standard One:
- I develop a list of search terms.
- I conduct basic and advanced searches using author, title, subject, keyword and full-text.
- I search the library catalog to find books and can find them in libraries.
- I find information in books using tables of contents, indices and other internal organizers.
- I keep a record of research.
Standard Two: Students evaluate information critically and competently.
- I examine and compare information from various sources including books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
Standard Three: Students use information accurately, creatively, and ethically.
- I support my conclusions with evidence.
- I model respect for intellectual property and fair use policies.
- I determine what information in each source is useful.
- I organize information using effective note-taking strategies.
- I accurately summarize/paraphrase main ideas.
- I accurately cite sources according to a specified style.
- I use information gathered to generate new ideas.
- I present, perform or share information and ideas effectively.
- I know what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.
- I practice academic honesty.
Grammar and Such
Grammar and Such
