ESL Resources

All units in this section will use the following hardware and software requirements...please click here to download free software.

Subject-Verb agreement means that in a given sentence the subject and verb must agree in number, i.e. both must be singular or plural. Click here to visit an interactive, multi-modal tutorial that helps you construct sentences with subject-verb agreement.

The following resources will be developed in the future for student use.

	Citing sources is extremely important, and failure to do so leads to plagiarism, which is an unethical academic practice. This tutorial will help you develop the skill of citing your sources apprpriately in MLA and APA format.
	Tense shifts are distracting and affect the comprehension of any given piece of writing. This tutorial will help you construct sentences that maintain a consistent tense.
	The vocabulary section will consist of a database of commonly used words in academic writing, their meaning, and pronunciation.

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