Video Tutorials

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MLA 8th Edition

MLA 8th Edition: In-Text Citations

MLA 8th Edition: Works Cited (Authorship)

MLA 8th Edition: Works Cited (Sources)

APA 7th Edition: Citation

APA 7th Edition: Basics of Citation

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite Direct Quotes

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite a Work with No Date

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite a Work with No Author

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite a Work with Two or More Authors

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite an Organization

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite Indirect Sources

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite Personal Communication

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite Two Works with the Same Author and Date

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite Multiple Works at Once

APA 7th Edition: How to Cite Two Authors with the Same Surname

APA 7th Edition: References

APA 7th Edition: Referencing Basics

APA 7th Edition: How to Reference a Book

APA 7th Edition: How to Reference a Journal Article

APA 7th Edition: How to Reference a Magazine/Newspaper Article

APA 7th Edition: How to Reference an Article/Chapter in a Book

APA 7th Edition: How to Reference a Work in a Foreign Language

 

Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition Part One

 

Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition Part Two

 

Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition Part Three

Punctuation

Punctuation Part One: Intro & Sentence Ending (periods, question marks, & exclamation marks)

Punctuation Part Two: Commas

Punctuation Part Three: Colons & Semicolons

Punctuation Part Four: Parentheses, Brackets, Quotation Marks, & Italics

Essay Structure

Anatomy of an Introduction

How to Write an Engaging Hook

How to Write an Effective Thesis Statement

How to Build a Body Paragraph

Constructing a Conclusion

Transitions

Transitions Part One: Intro & Types of Transitions

Transitions Part Two: Functions of Transitions

Transitions Part Three: Alternatives to Transitions

Editing for Conciseness

Editing for Conciseness: Formatting Tricks to Reduce Page Count

Editing for Conciseness: Introductory Elements

Editing for Conciseness: Modifiers

Editing for Conciseness: Verb Form

Editing for Conciseness: Word From

Editing for Conciseness: Redundancies

Top 10 Writing Tips

Inclusive Language

Tense in Academia


Simple Tense


Perfect Tense


Progressive Tense


Perfect Progressive Tense


Conditional Tenses

Modals

Simple Sentences 1


Simple Sentences 2 (Compound Subjects and Predicates)


Compound Sentences


Complex Sentences


Compound-Complex Sentences