agreement noun-verb	21
agreement pronoun-noun	21-22
American Chemical Society bibliographic form	73-74
American Chemical Society internal citations	81
American Psychological Association bibliographic form	70-72
American Psychological Association internal citations	81
apostrophes	28
assertions	3
awkward sentences	39-40
clause	17
cliches	15
college writing standards	2
colons	30
comma splice	20
commas	25
comments instructor's	39-41
computers writing on	37-38
conclusions	9-10
conjunctions	18-19
coordinating conjunctions	18
critical thinking	1
dangling modifiers	24
diction see word choice
documentation guide	43-81
drafts	8-9
editing checklist	33
electronic sources citing in MLA form	67-68
evidence	3
freewriting	6
grammar guide	17-32
hyphens	30
internet sources, citing	75
introductions	9
its/it's	29
key words	2
Modern Language Association, bibliographic form	60-70
Modern Language Association, internal citations	76-80
modifiers	23
notetaking	55-57
outlines	7
paragraph coherence	4
parallel construction	22
passive voice	13
plagiarism	46-47, 51-55
proofreading	2, 11
punctuation	25-32
punctuation with quotations	31-32
quotations integrating	50
quoting	46, 48-50, 82-90
and ellipses	85
and brackets	86
and italicizing	86-87
block quotations	87
dialogue	90
reading	6, 34-36
revision	10
semicolons	19, 26-27
sentence fragment	20
Skidmore College Writing Center	91
Skidmore Honor Code	42
slang	16
style manuals	44-45
style	12
subordinating conjunctions	18-19
syntax	40
thesis statement	3
transitions	4
vagueness	39
verbs	13
who/whom	24
word choice (diction)	12, 13, 14, 40
wordiness	12, 16
works cited list	58-59
writing process	5-11