Specific to Social Sciences
Elements of Writing
- Agreeing, disagreeing, standing your ground
- Concision
- Data visualizations
- Matrix method for literature reviews
- Peer review
- Thesis statements and topic sentences
- Writing a literature review
Videos
'Communicating Data to Nonexperts' (41:22)
'Literature Reviews' (12:39)
'Topic Sentences in Academic Writing' (10:53)
Style and Grammar
- Active and passive voice
- Citations (Chicago Manual of Style)
- Citations (Modern Language Association style)
- Citations (Turabian Manual of Style)
- Comma rules
- End stop punctuation, fragments, and commas
- Grammar and punctuation
- Improving your writing style
- Qualifiers
- Semicolon rules
- Semicolons, colons and dashes
- Sentence patterns
- Tenses
- Word choice
Help in the Majors
- African and African American Studies
- American History
- American Studies
- Anthropology (1)
- Anthropology (2)
- Archaeology
- Business
- Chinese History
- Economics
- Education
- Environmental Studies
- Film Studies
- French and Italian Language and Literature
- German Studies, Language and Literature
- History
- Journalism
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Legal History
- Linguistics
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Political Science
- Politics
- Psychology
- Public Policy
- Religious Studies
- Russian and East European Studies, Language and Literature
- Sociology (1)
- Sociology (2)
- Spanish and Latin American Literature
- Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- World History
- Yiddish Studies