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Guide to Effective Writing Strategies An Online Resource Created by the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium Authored by: Bonnie Riedinger Writing Center Director Post University Table of Contents 1) Writing Tips for Students4 i) Getting Ready to Write: Planning Techniques 4 ii) Understand Your Assignment 4 iii) Free Writing 4 iv) Talk it over 6 v) Writing Your Thesis Statement 6 vi) Introductions9 vii) Writing the Body of the Paper9 viii) Paragraphs and Transitions 10 ix) Conclusions 10 2) Writing the Research Paper 11 i) Quotations11 ii) Paraphrasing and Summarizing12 (1) Citations 14 3) What is grammar and why should we care about it? 15 i) Subject15 ii) Predicate 15 iii) Complete meaning 15 iv) Independent clause15 v) Dependent clause 16 www.eT 2 Effective Writing Strategies vi) Sentence fragments 16 vii) Types of sentences16 (a) Simple Sentence (b) Compound Sentence (c) Coordinating conjunction (d) Compound-complex sentence viii) Identifying Sentence Fragments 17 (a) Red Flags that identify dependent clauses 18 ix) Parallel Structure 20 x) Subject and Verb Agreement 22 xi) Comma splices 23 xii) When Should I Add a Comma? 24 www.eT 3 Effective Writing Strategies Writing Tips for Students Getting Ready to Write: Planning Techniques It’s 2 a.m. and you’re staring at a blank computer screen or sheet of paper.