Writing Tips Index

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APA Heading Levels
   The five APA heading levels, when to use them, and advice

APA Visuals
     APA requirements for tables and figures

APTS: Audience, Purpose, Tone. and Style
     Four tips about the important choices necessary for a document that works

Audience Analysis Workshop
     Five "tickets to success" for a writer to consider before planning a document.

Comma Confidence
     Examining independent clause patters and conjunctions

Course Style Guide
    My guide for formatting memos, letters, instructions, and reports, for editing register, grammar, puncutation, and mechanics, and for understanding document analysis via my CAP Lecture

Effective Quotations
     Six tips on effectively using quotations in writing, academic or workplace.

First Person Problems (I-I-I)
     Tips for dealing with excessive first person especially in cover letters

Kinneavy's Discourse Triangle
    Four page Rhettime Library entry for James L. Kinneavy showing the four aims of discourse

Memo Format
     How to format a memo with illustrated example

Process: Narrowing a Subject to an Argument Thesis
     Steps for going from a general subject to a specific topic, thesis, and document plan.

Writing Process
     Starting, Research & Planning, Drafting & Testing, and Publishing