PowerPoint Presentations and Tutorials

PowerPoint presentations: Grammar and punctuation For better results, right click on the presentations and download them to your computer.

Although, but, however	Explanation of the way different parts of speech affect sentence structure and punctuation.
Colons and semicolons	Explanation of grammatical and stylistic reasons for choosing colons or semicolons.
Tense and voice	Explanation of two different characteristics of verbs.
Sentence diagramming By Ann Jennings	Illustration of sentence patterns using diagrams. A PowerPoint presentation introduces the diagrams by reviewing sentence patterns. Exercises let students solve grammar problems by diagramming the problematic sentences. Diagrams illustrate the sentence patterns in the exercises.

PowerPoint presentations: Issues in editing

Ethics in editing

Identification and examples of five categories of ethical decision making.

Tutorials: Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word: Introduction to styles	This brief exercise (about 15 minutes) requires students first to apply default Microsoft Word styles to an existing text and then to create and modify a new style.
Microsoft Word: Tracking changes and inserting comments	This exercise requires students to track changes and insert queries using the Comments function in Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Word: page layout Original document Instructions pdf version Instructions Word version Formatted document	This tutorial requires students to apply advanced features of Word to convert a plain text to a two-column text suitable for a journal article. It requires familiarity with the Word interface and experience using Word. It can take two hours to complete, even with some coaching.