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English 800 Lab Tutorials

STOP! If you are an Engl 100, 100+101, 110, 165 or ESL 400 student, do not complete the English 800 Lab tutorials, but click here for the Writing Center tutorials.

In order to complete the lab hour component of English 838 and 848 this semester, you must complete at least one tutorial from the tutorials listed below. As soon as your instructor has filled out your green English 800 Lab Reporting Form, bring it to the English 800 Lab, 18-102, so you can begin work on the tutorial immediately. You must bring your green Reporting Form every time you work in the 800 Lab.Write out the answers for these tutorials and have a lab instructor in 18-102 go over the answers with you.

* The Introductory Tutorial is required for any student assigned Tutorials 1 - 4 (unless your classroom instructor advises otherwise).

Sentence Development Tutorials  
Introductory Tutorial:* Recognizing Verbs and Subjects
Tutorial One:*
Complete Introductory Chapter and have it corrected in the English 800 Lab before beginning this tutorial. 		Sentence Fragments

Tutorial Two:*
Complete Introductory Chapter and have it corrected in the English 800 Lab before beginning this tutorial.

Run-together Sentences

Tutorial Three: *
Complete Introductory Chapter and have it corrected in the English 800 Lab before beginning this tutorial.

Basic Subject - Verb Agreement

Tutorial Four:*
Complete Introductory Chapter and have it corrected in the English 800 Lab before beginning this tutorial.

Advanced Subject - Verb Agreement
(S/V Separated by Prepositional Phrases, Adjective Clauses, Etc.)

Tutorial Five:

Pronoun Agreement

Tutorial Six:

Past Tenses
(-ed endings)

Tutorial Seven:

Special Tenses
(Present Perfect and Past Perfect)

Tutorial Eight:

Apostrophes with Possessives and Contractions

Tutorial Nine:

Homonyms

Tutorial Ten: Joining Ideas: Coordination and Subordination
Tutorial Eleven: Noun Phrase Appositives
Tutorial Twelve: Verbal Phrases
(Present and Past Participle Phrases)
Tutorial Thirteen: Sentence Focus
Tutorial Fourteen: Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Tutorial Fifteen:

Using Quotes

Tutorial Sixteen:

Correlatives

Tutorial Seventeen:

Parallel Structure

Tutorial Eighteen:

Adjective Clauses

Tutorial Nineteen:

Writing Concisely
Tutorial Twenty: The Concessive Sentence
Tutorial Twenty-One: Using Commas


Essay and Paragraph Development Tutorials

Paragraph Basics:

Paragraph Basics:



Critical Thinking Skills Tutorial

Three Common Fallacies



Essay and Sentence Development Podcasts and PowerPoint Movies

These podcasts are short reviews of our tutorials on essay and sentence development, without exercises.

FANBOYS Rap Podcast

FANBOYS Rap Podcast: Complete Tutorial

Noun Phrase Appositives Punctuation Podcast

Taking an In-Class Essay Podcast

Sentence Focus Podcast

Verbal Phrases Podcast

Correcting Run-Together Sentences Podcast

You will need an up-to-date version of Apple's iTunes to view these podcasts. If you do not have a copy of iTunes, you can download a copy here.

 

 



Topic Sentences and Unity

Logical Order and Transistions

 

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