Assistant Professor Polly Hawk
Email Me: phawk@kckcc.edu
Phone: 913-288-7460
Office Location: Lower Humanities room 1113
Office Hours:
M 9-10 a.m., 12:30-3 p.m.
W 9-10 a.m., 12:30-1 p.m.
F 9-10 a.m., 11-3 p.m.
Online TR 2-3 p.m.
1
Wordy
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/conciseness-handout/
2
Passive voice
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/passive-voice/
3
Parallelism in a series
https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/moduleparallel.htm
4
Point of view
https://www.aims.edu/student/online-writing-lab/tools/point-of-view.php
5
Shift in verb tense
https://www.iup.edu/writingcenter/writing-resources/grammar/tense-shifting/
6
Voice – clichés
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/cliches/
7
Voice – slang
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarlyvoice/academicdiction
8
Voice – gender neutral language
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/
9
Subject/verb agreement
https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/moduleSVAGR.htm
10
Irregular verb
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/irregulars.htm
11
Pronoun agreement
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/pronouns/index.html
12
Pronoun reference
http://bethune.yorku.ca/writing/pronoun/
13
Pronoun case
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/pronouns/pronoun_case.html
14
Fragment
https://writingcenter.ashford.edu/sentence-fragments
15
Run-on sentence
http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/quicktips/run-ons.pdf
16
Commas with coordinating conjunctions
https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/coordconj/#:~:text=When%20a%20coordinating%20conjunction%20joins,never%20be%20followed%20by%20commas
17
Verbs for multilingual writers
https://www.iup.edu/writingcenter/writing-resources/multilingual-writers/grammar/
18
Article use
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/using_articles.html
19
Preposition use
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/prepositions/index.html
20
Comma needed
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/commas/index.html
21
Omit comma
22
Semicolon error
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/commas/commas_vs_semicolons.html
23
Colon
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/semi-colons-colons-and-dashes/
24
Apostrophe – possessive
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/apostrophe_introduction.html
25
Avoid contractions
26
Quotation marks needed
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quotation_marks/index.html
27
Quotation marks with titles
28
Quotation marks with other punctuation
https://style.mla.org/quoted-material-in-quoted-material/
29
Academic voice
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/using_appropriate_language/index.html
30
Capitalization in a sentence
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/help_with_capitals.html
31
Capitalization in a title
32
Abbreviations
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_abbreviations.html
33
Numbers
https://www.una.edu/writingcenter/docs/Writing-Resources/The%20Rules%20Regarding%20the%20Use%20Numerals%20in%20APA%20and%20MLA%20styles.pdf
34
Italics in titles
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/titles.html
35
Spelling
https://www.dictionary.com/ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/spelling_common_words_that_sound_alike.html
36
Choosing appropriate sources
http://www.butte.edu/services/library/learning/research-paper/resources.html
37
Signal phrase
https://www.iup.edu/writingcenter/writing-resources/research-and-documentation/mla-style/signal-phrases/
38
Parenthetical citations
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html
39
Works Cited
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_page_basic_format.html
40
Formatting
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.html
41
Thesis
https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/developing-thesis
42
Topic sentence
https://www.aims.edu/student/online-writing-lab/process/topic-sentences
43
Analysis
https://depts.washington.edu/owrc/Handouts/Strong%20Body%20Paragraphs.pdf
44
Introduction
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/introductions/
45
Conclusion
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/conclusions
46
Word choice
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/word-choice/
47
Awkward
https://www.southwestern.edu/live/files/3521-dewc-handout---avoiding-awkwardpdf
48
Dropped quotations
https://www.antioch.edu/santa-barbara/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/02/MLA-Signal-Phrases-for-Quotes-and-Paraphrases.pdf
49
Writing Titles
https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/sweetland-assets/sweetland-documents/WritingGuides/HowDoIWriteaGreatTitle.pdf
50
Avoid rhetorical questions
https://unilearning.uow.edu.au/academic/2e.html
