UMGC Effective Writing Center Video Library

Modifiers help to bring your writing to life, but if they’re not placed properly, they can cause more confusion. This short video helps you to make the most of your expression.

In much academic writing, pronouns like “I” and “you” should be avoided in favor of a more objective position. This short video will help you to deliver your writing from the right point of view.

Writing has many facets, and this short video will help you to determine where your focus needs to be when

Quoted material needs to be presented in particular ways in order to be understood. This short video will help you to integrate the work of others without losing your own voice

A run-on sentence can lose your reader’s attention and confuse your point. This short video will help you to identify and eliminate this common grammatical error.

Subjects and verbs are partners in sentence-making, so they need to agree with one another to work effectively. This short video will help you to make sure that your sentences are operating at their peak.

These two words might seem interchangeable, but deciding which to use in certain situations can improve your writing’s clarity.

Get to know the comma and its uses in this short video.

Get to know the apostrophe and its uses in this short video.

Your ultimate goal in writing is to communicate clearly. This short video will help you make sure your writing is as clear and understandable as possible.

Whenever you write, the elements of your writing should match one another.  This is called using parallel structure.  In this short video, learn how to make sure that your writing achieves this important function.