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Avoiding Plagiarism

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Sentence Structures

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Ten COMMAdments of Comma Usage

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Return to the Hook or Prelude

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Implications and Applications

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How to Cite Plato using Stephanus Numbers

Lessons on classical citation: citing Plato using Stephanus numbers (start-7:39); citing Aristotle using Bekker numbers (7:40-8:55); citing Plato’s four main points about truth and images in Republic 10 (8:56-22:04); the origin story of biblical verse numbers and Stephanus section numbers (22:05-24:41); and Plato as the classical philosopher of the Logos, the divine Word (24:42-end). Classical citation is the same for all citation styles: APA, MLA, and CMOS.

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When to Use Footnotes

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When to use footnotes for citations of quotations, summaries, paraphrases, and facts and statistics from published or online sources. In CMOS, writers use footnotes to cite secondary sources and many primary sources, but also use parenthetical in-text citation for certain primary sources such as the Bible, classical works, poems, and plays because these works have their own stable reference num...

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Avoiding Plagiarism

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How to recognize and avoid plagiarism (stock plagiarism, multiple submission, and blurring the lines) and how to develop effective habits of research writing.

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Sentence Structures

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The lesson reviews the four sentence structures: simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound-complex sentence. These structures are composed of four types of clauses: independent clause, adjective clause, adverb clause, and noun clause.

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Ten COMMAdments of Comma Usage

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The Ten COMMAdments explain the ten principles of proper comma usage for better punctuation.

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Return to the Hook or Prelude

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How to signal coherence in the conclusion by returning to key terms from the introduction’s hook or prelude. In poetics, this signal is called an inclusio (Latin for framing device), and in music and film it is called a finale, but all effective conclusions are recursive by echoing elements from the introduction, such as restating the thesis, key terms, key images, characters, and/or themes, to...

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Implications and Applications

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How to draw implications and applications to frame the research essay for significance. The research essay promises significance by design because it is a problem-solution genre, and that significance, or payoff, is expressed most clearly in the conclusion by drawing logical implications and practical applications. It is not enough in a research essay to conclude with a short summary paragraph,...

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Resolution of the Research Problem

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How to explain the thesis-as-solution to the research problem, or how it offers a position on the involved issue, to frame the research essay with understanding, significance, and coherence. These features relate to concepts covered in the video series on deconstructing introductions.

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Restatement of the Thesis

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How to conclude the research essay by restating the thesis and main points, also elaborating how the thesis answers the research question and solves the research problem, to frame the essay with understanding, significance, and coherence. These features relate to concepts covered in the video series on deconstructing introductions.

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An Overview of Conclusions

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How to conclude the research essay with coherence, resolution, and applications. The research essay promises significance by design because it is a problem-solution genre; as such, the research essay's conclusion requires not merely a short summary but developed significance by drawing logical implications or practical applications. These features relate to concepts covered in the video series ...

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The Advance Organizer

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How to introduce the research essay with a seventh expected element-the advance organizer, a compositional device used by most effective communicators. The advance organizer is a list of the reasons for believing and recommending the thesis statement and provides an outline or map, as it were, for the topic sentences, paragraphs, or sections to come in the body of the essay. Usually placed imme...

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The Thesis Statement

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How to introduce the research essay with a sixth expected element-the thesis statement, which should answer clearly and directly both the research question and the research problem. Since the research essay is a problem-solution genre, the thesis is the proposed solution or the position statement. Once a writer asserts and situates (in relation to the literature review) the two-part thesis stat...

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Questioning Your Writing Like a Reader

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How to evaluate your written arguments from the reader's perspective with twelve questions to help with global revision, especially of research essays understood as a problem-solution genre.

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The Literature Review

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How to introduce the research essay with a fifth expected element-the literature review, a summary of scholarly opinion on the research problem. A research writer should categorize and summarize the scholarly conversation in a literature review before seeking to enter that same conversation. The literature review is an important set of educational sentences with citations, teaching both writer ...

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The Research Problem

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How to introduce the research essay with a fourth expected element-the research problem. What is the form of motivation? It is problems. Since the research essay is a problem-solution genre, the introduction needs to express the problem, often an interpretive issue (where the experts disagree) or a gap in knowledge. While the research question is a local question about primary sources, the rese...