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Writing Fundamentals

• Argument, Dr. Adrienne Christiansen, Political Science
• What is a Thesis?, Dr. Adrienne Christiansen, Political Science
• Formulating a Good Thesis Statement, Dr. Brian Lush, Classics
• Evidence, Dr. Karl Wirth, Geology
• Write Like a Tour Guide, Dr. Chris Wells, Environmental Studies
• The First Sentence, Dr. Patrick Schmidt, Political Science
• Engage Your Reader, Dr. Sarah Boyer, Biology
• Paragraphs, Dr. Theresa Krier, English
• Argumentative Trail, Dr. Molly Olsen, Hispanic and Latin American Studies
• Make a Difference, Dr. Bill Moseley, Geography
• Get Stuck to Write Well, Helen Warren, Corporate and Foundation Relations
• Writing About Music, Dr. Chen-Fung Wong, Music

Pre-Writing Strategies

• Dictionaries, Dr. Frederik Green, Asian Languages and Cultures
• Significance, Dr. Adrienne Christiansen, Political Science
• Subject Encyclopedias, Ginny Heinrich, MLIS, DeWitt Wallace Library

Strategies for Revision

• How to Revise an Academic Essay, Part 1, Dr. Beth Severy-Hoven, Classics
• How to Revise an Academic Essay, Part 2, Dr. Beth Severy-Hoven, Classics
• Keep it Simple, Dr. Julie Dolan, Political Science
• Revision, Dr. Adrienne Christiansen, Political Science
• Drafts, Dr. Vittorio Addona, Math, Statistics, and Computer Science
• Cutting Your Prose, Dr. Adrienne Christiansen, Political Science
• Breathless, Dr. Adrienne Christiansen, Political Science
• Every Sentence is a Sandwich, Dr. James Dawes, English

Correcting Common Mistakes

• The Most Arrogant Punctuation Mark, Dr. Brian Rosenberg, President of Macalester College
• Superlatives, Dr. James von Geldern, Russian and International Studies
• Adverbs, Marlon James, MFA, English
• 'To Be', Dr. Erik Davis, Religious Studies
• Killing the Verb "To Be", Dr. Paul Dosh, Political Science
• A Very Useless Word, Dr. Britt Abel, German and Russian Studies