Practice Exercises: Writing, Reading, Grammar

Practice exercises to review what you have learned and identify any areas that need more focus.   

Research Writing Exercises

• Exercise: Can the topic be researched?
• Exercise: Is the research question too broad or too narrow?
• Worksheet: Evaluate your own research question
• Exercise: Choose the best research thesis
• Exercise: Evaluating sources
• Exercise : Distinguish between summaries and paraphrases

Critical Reading Exercises

• Worksheet: Exercise for while you read
• Worksheet: Authority of the writer
• Worksheet: Logic of the writer's argument
• Worksheet: How the writer gets your interest
• Worksheet: Writer's use of language and style
• Worksheet: Ideology that informs the text
• Worksheet: Examining your reactions

Grammar Exercises

• Exercise 1a: Basic noun-verb agreement
• Exercise 1b: Advanced noun-verb agreement
• Exercise 2a: Basic agreement with trick singulars
• Exercise 2b: Advanced agreement with trick singulars
• Exercise 3: Agreement when words come between the noun and verb
• Exercise 4: Noun-pronoun agreement

Punctuation Exercises

• Exercise 1: Apostrophes
• Exercise 2: Capitalization
• Exercise 3a: Basic commas and semicolons

 Documenting Sources

• Exercise 1: The difference between primary and secondary sources
• Exercise 2: Sample search
• Exercise 3: Documenting within the paper - MLA
• Exercise 4: Documenting within the paper - APA
• Exercise 5: Documenting within the paper - Turabian
• Exercise 6: Documenting at end of paper - MLA
• Exercise 7: Documenting at end of paper - APA
• Exercise 8: Documenting at end of paper - Turabian
• Exercise 9: Where to document