The Skidmore Guide to Writing
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Index of Terms
- Active Voice
- Agreement
- Apostrophes
- Argument/Thesis Statement
- Assertions
- Awkward Sentences
- Clauses
- Cliches
- Colloquial Expressions
- Colons
- Commas
- Comma Splices
- Conclusions
- Diction
- Drafts
- Evidence
- Fragments
- Freewriting
- Hyphens
- Introductions
- Its/It's confusion
- Modifiers
- Outlines
- Parallel Construction
- Paragraph Coherence
- Passive Voice
- Proofreading
- Punctuation with quotations
- Qualifiers, overuse of
- Quotations, dialog
- Quotations, ellipsis in
- Quotations, integrating
- Quotations, italicizing
- Quotations, long or block
- Quotations, long, effective use of
- Quotations, poetry
- Quotations, short
- Quotations, sic, use of
- Quotations, square brackets [ ]
- Quotations, when to cite
- Quotations, within quotations
- Reading
- Repetition
- Revision
- Semicolons
- Sentence Fragments
- Slang
- Small words and long sentences
- Syntax
- "to be" verb
- Thesis Statement/Argument
- Transitions
- Unnecessary Words and Phrases
- Vague
- Verb "to be"
- Verb Forms
- Who/Whom error
- Wordy