Writing Tips

Grading your papers reminds me of some writing tips:
1. Always introduce your quotations by identifying the speaker or writer in your text. Do not force your readers to go to the endnotes to figure out the origin of the passage that you quote.
2. What do you do when your endnotes cite a work more than once? Here is the answer:
In your essay’s footnotes or endnotes you will only need to use the full citation form once for a specific source. All subsequent citations of that same source will use either the Latin abbreviation “Ibid.” or a shortened citation. [More detail here.]
3. Superscripts follow punctuation marks (except a dash) in text and appear outside a closing parenthesis. Use Arabic numerals for endnotes.
4. Do not dangle your modifiers.
5. The CMC Writing Center, in Bauer 32, offers writing advice – in half-hour sessions – to all CMC students in need of help. Its hours are as follows:
Sunday 1-5 p.m., 7-10 p.m.Monday 9 a.m. - Noon, 1-5 p.m., 7-10 p.m.Tuesday 9 a.m. - Noon., 1-5 p.m., 7-10 p.m.Wednesday 9-Noon, 1-5 p.m., 7-10 p.m.Thursday 9-Noon, 1-5 p.m., 7-10 p.m.Friday 9-12 a.m.