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Everything leads to proofreading, which is your ability to find error and eliminate it before your ideas and work are prematurely judged. Think of proofreading as a search. Based on your careful examination of papers your instructor has returned, you know certain errors occur with some frequency in your papers. You write in fragments, or you slip up on pronouns. Before you turn in your papers, look for those errors. Search for them. If you have trouble finding them on your own, read your paper with another student, a friend, or family member. Many students need extra assistance identifying common errors in spelling, rhetoric and grammar. The following exercises are designed to do just that.

The idea behind these exercises is a three-step approach to control error. 

Complete the following exercises. You can repeat them as many time as needed. Remember practice makes perfect.

• Sentence Errors

• Verbs
• Pronouns
• Punctuation
• Sentence Work
• Quotations
• Miscellaneous

Citing your sources is a required practice when writing papers. The use of citations is to respect other people's intellectual properties and to avoid plagiarism. The following list of links serve as a resource for correctly citing the resources used in your paper as in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

• Slate Citation Machine generates MLA or APA citations using your input.

• MLA Style Guide from the Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University

• APA Style Guide from the Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University

• APA format for citing Electronic References from the American Psychological Association Publication Manual

• Turabian Citation and Format Style Guide from Bucknell University

This set of exercises gives you practice at skills you need to write a research paper.  The set does not cover everything.  At this time, it focuses exclusively on reading and summary.

We, the staff of the Henry Ford Community College Learning Lab, serve students, faculty and divisions by researching, developing and providing services offered outside the traditional classroom.  We design these services to improve student success in courses and programs.

We deliver these services through our physical location, through this website and through sessions at other locations accessible to teachers and students.

We measure our success by the success of our students in their courses and programs and by the satisfaction of the students, faculty and divisions we serve.

For further information, please visit the HFCC Learning Lab's home page at http://hfcclab.info/.

Henry Ford Community College's online library offers an extensive online research databases for online articles, magazines, journals and newspapers. The library also provides useful links to government web sites, local libraries, citation guides and Michigan eLibrary.

For further information, please visit HFCC’s online library at https://my.hfcc.edu/clara/.