Terms & Definitions

Capitalization Rules
Academic Degrees
Book Titles
Buildings, Streets, etc.
Days
Deities and Sacred Books
Departments of Government
Direct Quotations
Epithets
Genus
Geographic Locations
Geological Eras
Historical Events
Judicial Bodies
Languages
Laws, Acts, and Treaties
Personifications
Planets, Stars, etc.
Poems
Points of a Compass
Political Entities
Popular Names
Presidents
Proper Names
Proper Noun Derivatives
Proper Nouns
Religious Denominations
Rivers, Mountains, etc.
Salutation Close
Sentences
Titles
Trademarks
Peoples, Tribes, Races, etc.

Common Foreign Words and Phrases

Commonly Confused Words

Grammar Rules
Adjective
Adverb
Clause
Conjunction
Interjection
Noun
Participle
Phrase
Preposition
Pronoun
Sentence
Subject
Verb

Punctuation Rules
Apostrophe '
Brackets [ ]
Colon :
Comma ,
Dash -
Ellipsis ...
Exclamation Point !
Hyphen -
Parenthesis ( )
Period .
Question Mark ?
Quotations-Single ' '
Quotations-Double " "
Semicolon ;
Virgule /

Spelling Rules
Changing Word Endings
Forming Plurals
Other Spelling Rules: "cede" and "i before e"

Steps to Writing a Term Paper
Choosing a Subject
Finding Information About Topic
Reading and Taking Notes
Organizing Notes
Constructing the Outline
Writing the First Draft
Reviewing the Draft
Preparing the Final Copy
Final Assembly