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Contacts: Tim   Donovan:  foustfaust@hotmail.com

Hello Donovan, I hope all is well with you and that school is going well this year.  If you ever need to work on a difficult paper or
have any projects which are giving you difficulty, let me know.

Your page still exists..  www.WritingResource.info/donovan.html  You may find it useful. 
There also a variety of resources which I have developed over the past two years which may come in handy when you are
studying science, math, history, social studies, or a variety of other subjects....
best regards, Tim


You can always contact me at this e-mail, or via telephone to schedule, confirm, or cancel (with 24 hours notice) appointments.  503-697-1670
tim@writingresource.org/

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Here are a variety of resources, study the ones in this color.  Then check your vocabulary page.
In the next weeks we will work on essay writing, transitions, rhetoric, and grammar.  

Online English Language Quizzes - UsingEnglish.com  Grammar: common errors in English
Topics  www.WritingResource.org/ Adventures in Writing Links and references
Active and Passive Voice   Active or Passive Voices 173, 227, 411, 246 Active vs. Passive Voice
Adverbs Verbs  Adverbs adverbs:  412, verbs and adverbs: 173,227-232, 236, 239-246, 411
adverbs   Adverbs Adverbs      What is an Adverb? Adjective/ Adverb  Quiz  Quiz
 Guide to Apostrophes   Apostrophes... 270,334,409 Apostrophe Quiz     Apostrophes
Apostrophe Catastrophe The Apostrophe   and possessives The Apostrophe  Quiz #2  Apostrophe Quiz 3
Articles   Articles 221 Articles: Use and Misuse

Articles, Definite/Indefinite

 PRACTICE:  ARTICLES A/AN

              Using Articles

Quiz  Quiz 2  Quiz 3  Quiz 4

Business and English Business vocabulary  and grammar 414 Business English
Capitalization Rules   Capitalization Guidelines 286-293 Capital Letter - Quiz
Capital Letters                           Capitalization Quiz                               English: Capital Letters             When and where to use caps
Commas   Play comma game  Three comma rules!   All commas rules!     189,313,406 Commas quiz  Quiz 2  quiz 3
Computers www.ComputerResource.org/ 113, 143-147 Writing with Computers
Conversation Resource  American Accent Training

American Pronunciation

Useful Expressions
Gerunds Gerunds/Participles/Infinitives 239       Gerunds and Infinitives ESL Quiz - Gerund
 Gerunds & Infinitives Interactive verbal quiz #2

ESL Quiz Gerund or Infinitive

Gerund & Infinitive Quiz
Hyphen    Using Hyphens

The Hyphen

336, 409  Rules for hyphens   Hyphen  Hyphenated Adjectives
Idioms and Slang     Idioms and Slang

            The Idiom Connection

Self-Study Idiom Quizzes  
Nouns and Adjectives Nouns and Adjectives 410, 249-252 Crossword Puzzle - Adjectives
Outlining & Prewriting  Prewriting   Outline 86, 99 Prewriting 35-40 Planning (Invention)
Parallel Structure  mostly punctuation 298-301 Parallel Structures
Parts of Speech   410-413 The Parts of Speech

Parts Of Speech

Part of Speech Quiz

Parts of Speech Grammar - Parts of Speech
Periods   311, 406 Period          PowerPoint
Plurals   266 English plural

Plural reference:  Encyclopedia/English plurals                   

269                                             Possessives w/self-tests

Preposition   Prepositions  256, 412 QUIZ   Prepositions

please look up these prepositions: about, at, by, for, from, in, of, on, to, with ...and use them in sentences

**Pronouns Pronouns 123,166,180,212,257,410-411,448 More on Pronouns
Punctuation Punctuation    Punctuation 310-313, 326-334, 406-409 Punctuation Test
Quotations and Punctuation  Actual Quotation Resource 329,408                                      Quotations & Punctuation

Quotations/ Punctuation

Punctuating & Indenting Quotes Punctuating Quotations Quiz on Using Quotation Marks
Rewriting  Editing & Rewrite   13, 145 PDF] Culling common errors
Rhetoric www.WritingResources.org/ 44-69 Rhetoric, linguistics & writing
                    Rhetoric: More! Rhetoric...What is it?     Rhetoric 47 The Rhetoric Page

 Rhetoric is the art of communication which allows us to persuade and communicate ideas.

Run-on Sentences   Run-on Sentences  188 Quiz: RUN-ON SENTENCES
Sentence Structure  (SVO) Sentence Patterns   172-200 Sentence Structure
Spelling                     Spelling Spelling 262- 266,  Common Errors  Spelling Course
Spelling Rules Spelling Test 271, 273  ESL Quizzes - Spelling    spell
Tense  Verb Tense Chart        Tenses           Verb Tense Tutorial 228-230, 232,245 Sequence of Tenses

Using Verb Tenses

EnglishOntheRun-Grammar

English tenses tense  ESL Quiz-Verb Tenses
 They're  contraction  There   location   Their            possessive 282 Easily Confused/Misused Words
** "This" and "that"   123,166,180,212,257,410-411 ESL Quizzes - Pronouns
Thinking in English   219-285  
Transitions  Using Transitions 116-130 Organization Transitions
Verbs Verbs 173,227-232, 239-246, 411  
Vocabulary  Vocabulary Page 162-170    Business English-Vocabulary

 vocabulary

BUSINESS ENGLISH

Business Vocabulary

Business Speaking Skills
Writing Writing Skills     Writing 11, 145 26 Rules for Writing Well

Adventures in Writing : an Introduction To the Writing Process With Readings (03 Edition)Adventures in Writing With Readings
 
A simply organized, easy to understand
 book about writing effectively.

by Adam U. Kempler

Writer's Harbrace Handbook (2ND 04 Edition) Writer's Harbrace Handbook
 The rules for writing effectively.

by Glenn / Miller / Strobeck-webb / Gray

easily confused words  fragments