Generating Ideas

	Exercise 1:	How to generate ideas for your essay
	Exercise 2:	How to organize ideas you generated
	Exercise 3:	Generating and organizing ideas for your essay
	Exercise 4:	Completing essay outlines
	Exercise 5:	Completing essay outlines
	Test What You Have Learned

Introduction and Thesis

	Exercise 1:	Parts of an introductory paragraph
	Exercise 2:	Identifying different types of opening hooks
	Exercise 3:	Components of an introductory paragraph
	Exercise 4:	Sequencing the sentences of an introductory paragraph
	Exercise 5:	Identifying problems with thesis statements
	Exercise 6:	Identifying and correcting errors in thesis statements
	Test What You Have Learned

Paragraph Structure

	Exercise 1:	Identifying the features of a paragraph
	Exercise 2:	Choosing appropriate topic sentences
	Exercise 3:	Writing topic sentences
	Exercise 4:	Identifying sentences that affect unity
	Exercise 5:	Sequencing the sentences of a paragraph
	Exercise 6:	Using linking words in a paragraph
	Exercise 7:	Writing cohesive paragraphs
	Exercise 8:	Selecting the correct concluding sentence for each body paragraph
	Exercise 9:	Correcting bad concluding sentences in body paragraphs
	Test What You Have Learned

Paragraph Development

	Exercise 1:	Adding support to your paragraph
	Exercise 2:	Adding details to a body paragraph
	Exercise 3:	Using a variety of supporting techniques
	Exercise 4:	Writing specific details in body paragraphs
	Exercise 5:	Making conclusions or generalizations
	Test What You Have Learned

Concluding Paragraph

	Exercise 1:	Parts of a concluding paragraph
	Exercise 2:	Choosing correct concluding paragraphs
	Test What You Have Learned

Revising and Editing

	Exercise 1:	Learning to revise and edit
	Exercise 2:	Revising an essay
	Exercise 3:	Editing essays
	Exercise 4:	Editing essays
	Test What You Have Learned - Revising
	Test What You Have Learned - Editing

Writing Research Papers

	Exercise 1:	Introduction to writing a research paper
	Exercise 2:	What makes a good research topic?
	Exercise 3:	Types of sources
	Exercise 4:	Evaluating internet resources
	Exercise 5:	Sorting notes for your research paper
	Exercise 6:	Outlining
	Exercise 7:	Formatting your research paper
	Exercise 8:	Writing APA-style references
	Exercise 9:	Writing reference entries
	Exercise 10:	Paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism
	Exercise 11:	Summarizing lengthy material for your research paper
	Example of an Outline for a Research Paper
	Example of Research Paper (This is a PDF file)

Verb Forms

	Exercise 1:	Using past participles: verb forms that follow BE or HAVE
	Exercise 2:	Using the base form of the verb after modals (must, should) and auxiliaries (do, does, did)
	Exercise 3:	Knowing when to add –ed endings
	Exercise 4:	Avoiding incomplete verb phrases

Verb Tense

	Exercise 1:	Using tenses consistently
	Exercise 2:	Distinguishing between the use of the simple past and the present perfect (do, does, did)
	Exercise 3:	Choosing the right verb form in conditional sentences

Final S's

	Exercise 1:	Understanding the use of the possessive –'s
	Exercise 2:	Identifying mistakes with final S's

Agreement

	Exercise 1:	Making subjects and verbs agree
	Exercise 2:	Finding subject-verb agreement mistakes
	Exercise 3:	Knowing when to use singular and plural nouns
	Exercise 4:	Making pronouns agree with the nouns they refer to

Word Forms

	Exercise 1:	Choosing the correct word form (noun, adjective, verb, adverb)
	Exercise 2:	Using the correct word form

Sentence Structure

	Exercise 1:	Correcting missing and repeated subjects
	Exercise 2:	Choosing the best way to correct fragments
	Exercise 3:	Choosing the best way to correct run-on sentences
	Exercise 4:	Correcting problems with sentence fragments and run-ons

Sentence Combining

	Exercise 1:	Using coordinating conjunctions
	Exercise 2:	Using subordinating conjunctions
	Exercise 3:	Choosing appropriate transitional expressions
	Exercise 4:	Improving your writing by using relative clauses
	Exercise 5:	Improving your writing through sentence variety

Assorted Exercises

	Exercise 1:	Distinguishing words that are often confused
	Exercise 2:	Identifying and fixing word order problems
	Exercise 3:	Improving sentences by using parallel structures
	Exercise 4:	Avoiding double negatives