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Current Workshop
Offerings
Thesis
Statements and IntroductionEffective
SentencesGrammarGrammatical
Sentence
PunctuationRevising
and EditingOrganization
and CohensionPeer
Review
Documenting
Sources and Works CitedBibliographyAnnotated BibliographyEvaluating
Sources
Note
Taking and Avoiding Plagiarism
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Have
you ever been nervous on a first date, or painstakingly gone over
every detail of a letter of application for a job or a school you
would like to attend? If you have, you have realized that first
impressions are lasting impressions.
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Effective
sentences clearly communicate the writer's meaning. In this workshop,
students learn how to construct a variety of sentences using the
principles of subordination/coordination, parallelism and passive
versus active voice.
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Students
completing this workshop will learn basic grammatical concepts and
how to use them to improve the clarity of their writing.
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Students
completing this workshop will learn what makes a sentence grammatically
correct and how to spot and eliminate sentence fragments and run-ons
as well as other common errors.
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The
following workshop offers answers to questions commonly asked by
college freshman writers. Understanding and recognizing the proper
use of basic punctuation will do much to improve writing and by
our ability to communicate.
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Revision
is one of the most important steps of the writing process. Minor
revision involves finding and correcting spelling, grammar and mechanical
errors, whereas major revision includes a focus on organization,
content, and expression.
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This
workshop focuses on helping the writer to identify and create unified
essays which are structurally sound on both the paragraph and sentence
level. The student will learn about and practice several conventional
methods of organization for academic essays.
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This
workshop guides students through the process of peer review by outlining
feedback strategies as well as helping students to focus and comment
on specific criteria for academic writing. A sample essay is also
included for practice.
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Documenting
sources is the process of indicating within an essay where quoted
material originated and from whom you derived certain ideas. In
this workshop, students will learn proper methods of documenting
sources using MLA guidelines.
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A bibliography gives students a means to keep their sources organized and ensures that they have all necessary information for their Works Cited page. Using MLA guidelines, students will learn to compose a preliminary bibliography. |
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An annotated bibliography includes bibliographic entries like those covered in the "Bibliography" workshop, but with a twist. Each entry is accompanied by brief bits of information about the content of the sources you have consulted. |
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Researchers
have long been concerned with using valid sources and with the popularity
of Internet research the process of evaluation has become even more
necessary. In this workshop, students will examine evaluative criteria
and learn about credible research sites on the web.
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Plagiarism,
sometimes referred to as the "P" word, occurs whenever writers take
someone else's work and passes it off as their own. This workshop
identifies the various myths about plagiarism and instructs students
how to take good notes to avoid unintentional borrowing.
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First-Year Writing
Studio- Department of English
East Carolina University
2005 Bate Building
Greenville, NC 27858
252-328-6399
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