Helpful Website for English Writing Tutorials

I'm grateful to be part of our Pathway program in the Church, we're we are taught to write descriptive content that can help readers in our write-ups.

This is a link that can help you learn about commas. 

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/commas/extended_rules_for_commas.html

Narrative Writing

Part of the Story

The essay should include all the part of the story.

1. Introduction
2. Plot - Sequence of Event
3. Characters
4. Setting or Location
5. Climax - focal point or central event
6. Conclusion


Purpose - The essay should have a clear focus. Think of your purpose as the thesis of the story.

Point of View - The reader should know who is talking about the story.

The reader should not be wondering about where and when of your story.  To indicate the place you can use the following: above, below, elsewhere, farther on, here, near, nearby, on the other side, opposite to, and there, or obviously, you can name the specific location where your story is going.

To indicate the time you can also use the following: after a while, after a while, afterward, as soon as, once, at that time, before, earlier, formerly, immediately, in the meantime, in the past, lately, later, now, shortly, since, so far, soon, then, thereafter, until, when. Or you can name the specific time: . . . by 2:00pm, near the end of 2011, ten minutes later.

Pathway Vocabulary

Listing all of the vocabularies that I need to use often.

Vocabularies in Pathway Basic Writing

2nd week:

prospective: expected

intuitively: naturally

swayed: influenced

parody: an imitation meant to be amusing and/or in mocking

shrilly: in a high-pitched, piercing tone

compelling: demanding and keeping one's attention

sustain - support
taint - a taste of bad or undesired quality or substance

by hand - a person hand and not a machine

minuscule - extremely small; tiny

3rd week: 

hard-core - the most active, committed 

freak - a very unusual and unexpected event or situation

mania - excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession 

dandelion - a wide distributed weed of daisy flower

in the eye of the beholder - A person who is observing get to decide what is beautiful

as far as I am concerned - would indicate you're expressing your opinion about the matter being discussed. 

would knock themselves out - positive: make a great effort; negative: don't except yourself; it is not worth that much effort. 

kind of - rather

as you please - however, you wish; whatever you choose

gullet - a passage by which food passes from the mouth to the stomach; the esophagus

step aside - withdraw or resign from an important position or office

lacy - made of, resembling, or trimmed with lace

denizen - (Noun) an inhabitant or occupant for a particular place

hardly ever - (Phrase)very rarely

plumb - (Verb) measure (dept of the body of water); test an upright surface to determine the vertical.

furrow - (noun) a litter of pigs   

banish - (verb) send someone away from a country or place as an official punishment.

handy around the house  - good at house work

shrew - (noun) - a small insectivorous mammal resembling a mouse, with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes; a bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman.

roiling - make (a liquid) turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment.; make (someone) annoyed or irritated.

drawn up(phrase) - come to a halt

grizzled (adj) - having or streaked with gray hair.

What is Plagiarism

2 Types of Plagiarism by BYU Idaho

Intentional Plagiarism - is the deliverate act of representing the words, ideas, or data of another as one's own without providing proper attribution to the author through quotation, reference, or footnote.

Inadvertent Plagiarism - Involves the inappropriate, but non-deliberate, use of another's words, ideas, or data without proper attribution.

When to cite: 
Cite any direct quotation, paraphrase, graphic, or summary
Other information to cite
Anything taken from a different source need to be cited. Other information include but not limited to graphics, pictures, music lyrics written by someone else or anything taken from another source.

Do not cite common knowledge
- Well-now facts
- Historical events
- Facts that are found in several places (Without citation)
- Folklore and myths



Avoiding Plagiarism
"Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided... by citing srouces. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed, and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source, is usually enough to prevent plagiarism."

- do not forget quotation marks when using direct quotes
- double check your work and the original source for any possible borrowed phrases and missed citations
- cite anything that you aren't sure of, just to be safe
- use an informal, in-text citation if a citation style isn't specified: In his essay "The Pleasure of Eating," Wendell Berry argues that "The specialization of production induces specialization of consumption."

More info: http://www.byui.edu/academic-support-centers/writing/video-lessons-and-handouts/plagiarism