Writing Center & English 800 Center

Tutorials: Sentence Development, Summarizing, Paraphrasing & Quoting

The Introductory Tutorial teaches you how to identify verbs and subjects. All students must complete the Introductory Tutorial before beginning Tutorials 1 through 4.

You can print all of the following tutorials at home or use the tutorial binders in the English 800 Lab or Writing Center.  Read the explanation, write out the answers, and make an appointment with an English 800 Lab or Writing Center instructor to review your work. Please do not print tutorials in the Writing Center. Thank you.

*Introductory Tutorial: Recognizing Verbs and Subjects

1. Sentence Fragments*
2. Run-Together Sentences*
3. Basic Subject-Verb Agreement*
4. Advanced Subject-Verb Agreement*
5. Pronoun Agreement
6. Past Tense
7. Special Tenses
8. Use of Apostrophes with Possessives and Contractions
9. Homonyms
10. Joining Ideas (Coordination & Subordination)
11. Noun Phrase Appositives
12. Verbal Phrases
13. Sentence Focus
14. Summarizing and Paraphrasing
15. Using Quotations
16. Correlatives
17. Parallel Structure
18. Adjective Clauses
19. Writing Concisely
20. The Concessive Sentence
21. Using Commas