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2. ENGL 1302 – Capstone Essay
3. Why Is Grammar Important?
4. Introduction to Nouns
5. Regular Plural Nouns
6. Irregular Plural Nouns
7. Count vs. Non-Count Nouns
8. Compound Nouns
9. Practice Activities: Nouns
10. Introduction to Pronouns
11. Personal Pronouns
12. Practice Activities: Personal Pronouns
13. Demonstrative Pronouns
14. Indefinite Pronouns
15. Relative Pronouns
16. Antecedent Clarity
17. Antecedent Agreement
18. Practice Activities: Pronouns
19. Introduction to Verbs
20. Active Verbs
21. Linking Verbs
22. Helping Verbs
23. Simple Verb Tenses
24. Subject & Verb Agreement
25. Verb Tense Consistency
26. Introduction to Non-Finite Verbs
27. Gerunds
28. Participles
29. Infinitives
30. Advanced Verb Tenses
31. Practice Activities: Verbs
32. Introduction to Adjectives and Adverbs
33. Functions of Adjectives
34. Functions of Adverbs
35. Differences between Adjectives and Adverbs
36. Common Mistakes with Adjectives and Adverbs
37. Practice Activities: Adjectives and Adverbs
38. Introduction to Other Parts of Speech
39. Conjunctions
40. Practice Activities: Conjunctions
41. Prepositions
42. Articles
43. Introduction to Punctuation
44. Ending Punctuation
45. Commas
46. Semicolons
47. Colons
48. Practice Activities: Commas, Semicolons, and Colons
49. Hyphens and Dashes
50. Apostrophes
51. Quotation Marks
52. Brackets
53. Ellipses
54. Parentheses
55. Practice Activities: Punctuating Quotes
56. Punctuation Clusters
57. Practice Activities: Punctuation
58. Introduction to Usage
59. Commonly Misused Terms and Phrases
60. Abbreviations and Acronyms
61. Writing with Numbers
62. Capitalization
63. Spelling
64. Introduction to Sentence Structure
65. Basic Parts of a Sentence
66. Common Sentence Structures
67. Sentence Punctuation Patterns
68. Run-on Sentences
69. Sentence Fragments
70. Parallel Structure
71. Practice Activities: Parallel Structure
72. Active and Passive Voice
73. Revising Weak Passive-Voice Sentences
74. Using the Passive Voice
75. Practice Activities: Active and Passive Voice
76. Rhetorical Context
77. How to Write a Thesis Statement
78. The Perfect Paragraph
79. Introductions and Conclusions
80. Higher Order Concerns for Editing
81. Lower Order Concerns for Proofreading
82. The Importance of Spelling
83. Revising With Style In Mind
84. Why Is Research Important?
85. Preliminary Research Strategies
86. Level Up Your Google Game
87. Intermediate Research Strategies
88. Google Scholar
89. Advanced Search Strategies
90. How to Search in a Library Database
91. Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
92. Evaluating Sources
93. Tools for Evaluating Sources
94. Using Sources in Your Paper
95. Using Multiple Sources
96. Academic Dishonesty
97. Defining Plagiarism
98. Avoiding Plagiarism
99. Why Is MLA Documentation Important?
100. Introduction to ML