The interactive tutorials listed below are currently in development. Several links are already active, and more are being added weekly. Please check back frequently to see what tutorials have been added. Each interactive tutorial is designed to help you improve your writing skills. Each concludes with a brief writing exercise that will help you test your mastery of the skills presented in the tutorial.

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English 1001 (English Review) students: print out your completed writing exercise and bring it to your next class.

· Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms

· Sentence Structure

» 1. Avoiding Fragments
» 2. Avoiding Comma Splices, Run-Ons, and Fused Sentences
» 3. Combining Sentences through Coordination and Subordination
4. Varying Your Sentence Structures

· Punctuation

» 5. Commas
» 6. Semicolons and Colons
» 7. Apostrophes
» 8. Hyphens and Dashes

· Pronouns

» 9. Pronoun Reference
» 10. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
» 11. Pronoun Case
12. Choosing the Right Pronoun

· Verbs

» 13. Subject-Verb Agreement
» 14. Verb Tense
» 15. Troublesome Verbs
Verb Voice

· Modifiers

16. Adjective and Adverb Modifiers
» 17. Misplaced, Dangling, and Squinting Modifiers

· Diction

18. Choosing the Best Words
» 19. Avoiding Slang, Jargon, and Cliché
20. Avoiding Wordiness

· Style

21. Choosing Your Writing Voice
22. Parallelism

· Comparisons

23. Comparative and Superlative
24. Avoiding Faulty Comparisons

· Paragraphs

25. Organizing Paragraphs
26. Developing Paragraphs
27. Using Concrete Examples

28. Capitalization

29. Numbers

Underlining and Italics

· Quotation Marks