Writing Resources

General Rubrics
Narrative Essay Rubrics
​Difficulty/Curiosity Rubric
MLA Citations and Formatting
  • MLA Sample Paper: See this for a paper written in MLA formatting that also explains how to do it.
  • MLA in One Page:  A handy guide to MLA formatting and citations from Purdue OWL (scroll to page 2).
  • MLA In Text Citations:  Lori's guide to in-text citations for the most common types of sources.
  • MLA Exceptions:  Weird cases where in-text citations are different (block quotes, and quoting a quote).

​Other Writing Skills
​Proofreading

Project 1: College Essay Boot Camp Class Handouts​

Project #2: Sustainability and Community
Energy and Climate ChangeCLIMATE CHANGE ARTICLES: REPUBLICANS​
1. http://www.republicanviews.org/republican-views-on-global-warming/
2. http://www.republicanviews.org/republican-views-on-global-warming-2/
3. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/02/republicans-climate-change-solutions-senators
4. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/what-does-it-take-to-get-climate-change-on-the-republican-agenda/401678/
5. http://www.npr.org/2015/02/24/388796105/solar-energy-advocates-find-unexpected-ally-in-tea-party
6. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/a-gop-approachto-tackling-climate-change-120336
7. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/business/economy/bringing-republicans-to-the-climate-change-table.html
8. http://grist.org/climate-energy/getting-warmer-more-republicans-are-starting-to-take-climate-change-seriously/
9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/06/the-insiders-global-warming-might-be-real-but-the-democrats-solutions-are-not/
10. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/09/26/161824667/new-groups-argue-a-conservative-take-on-climate-change
11. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-more-republicans-now-believe-in-climate-change/
12. https://thinkprogress.org/the-republican-platform-once-tried-to-fight-climate-change-now-it-denies-it-8550236c481#.l1dfxuhpu
CLIMATE CHANGE ARTICLES: DEMOCRATS
1. http://www.republicanviews.org/democratic-views-on-global-warming/
2. http://www.republicanviews.org/democratic-views-on-global-warming/2/
3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/04/how-democrats-have-shifted-on-climate-energy-since-2008/
4. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/us/politics/senate-democrats-to-unveil-aggressive-climate-change-bill.html
5. https://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/climate-change
6. http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021413-2pager.pdf
7. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/obama-state-of-the-union-energy_n_4684404.html
8. http://cleantechnica.com/2015/10/14/democrats-acknowledge-dangers-climate-change/
9. http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democratic-news?ID=ed716139-877d-4280-bfa4-b83c7cc0f3e9
10. http://www.rollcall.com/news/senate_democrats_aim_to_shift_politics_of_climate_change-230153-1.html
11. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0706/The-Democrats-climate-change-conundrum
12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/22/climate-change-as-an-economic-issue-will-hurt-clinton-and-the-democrats-in-2016/?utm_term=.d70b09ea5bd1