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Empire State College - Writing Resource Center
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Exercises

Critical Reading Exercises

A collection of handouts and worksheets to help students read critically and respond to what they have read.

Essay Writing Exercises

Pre-Orientation Day Writing Sample Assignment (Genesee Valley Writing Center)

Research Writing Exercises

Research Room: (Writer's Complex)
Students learn a step by step process for developing a research paper through reading and examples. The site also contains individual exercises for students to assess their understanding of the following topics:

Grammar Exercises

Grammar Workout: Interactive Exercises (Writer's Complex)
This page contains 13 short interactive exercises on the following topics:
    Exercise 1: Noun-Verb Agreement
    Exercise 1:Agreement with Trick Singular Nouns and Pronouns
    Exercise 3: Agreement When Words Come between the Noun and Verb
    Exercise 4: Noun-Pronoun Agreement
    Exercise 5: Pronoun Agreement with Other Pronouns
    Exercise 6: Pronoun Reference
    Exercise 7: Adverbs and Adjectives
    Exercise 8: Verb Agreement with Other Verbs - Tense
    Exercise 9: Words and Phrases in a Series (Parallelism)
    Exercise 10: Compound and Complex Sentences
    Exercise 11: Sentence Fragments
    Exercise 12: Run-On Sentences
    Exercise 13: Active & Passive Voice
Punctuation Exercises

Punctuation Points: Interactive Exercises (Writer's Complex)
    Exercise 1: Apostrophes
    Exercise 2: Capital Letters
    Exercise 3: Commas & Semi-Colons
    Exercise 4: Colon, Dash, Parenthesis
    Exercise 5: Italics & Underlining
    Exercise 6: Misused/Misspelled Words
    Exercise 7: Quotation Marks
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