Handouts

Academic Writing

• Describing Art: Writing A Formal Analysis
• Prep Points for Writing Interviews
• Writing Editorials
• Writing News Stories
• Writing Feature Stories
• Take A Stand! Writing Effective Position Papers
• Take A Stand! Writing Effective Position Papers 2
• Writing The Application Essay
• Thinking It Through: A guide to Writing think Pieces, Reflection Papers, and Reaction Papers
• Writing in Math is Integral
• One of These Things is Not like the Other...Writing Compare/Contrast Papers
• Writing in Philosophy
• How to Write a Literature Review
• Writing Reviews in Visual and Performing Arts
• How to Write a Thesis Statement
• What is a Thesis Statement?
• Taming the Chemical Beast
• The Final Touches: Revising Prose Reading Between the Rhyme: Writing About Poetry
• A Guide to Creative Writing
• Seven Days to a Good Paper
• Journal Writing: A Process Reaction
• Summary Versus Analysis
• Creating an Outline
• Organizing Your Paper: A Few Choice Words
• The Inverted Pyramid: A Model for Effective Introductions
• Beating the clock: Writing Timed Essays
• Approach to Revising a Draft: Analytical Essays
• Research Papers
• Writing an Effective Cover Letter
• Tips on Essay Exams

Reference and Documentation

• Evaluating Internet Resources
• The Annotated Bibliography
• Quotable Quotes: Effective Quoting in the Humanities
• In Your Own Words: Avoiding Plagiarism
• www.what? How to Cite Online Sources
• MLA Documentation Help

Style, Grammar, and Usage

• Sentence Variety: Part One
• Sentence Variety: Part Two
• The Semicolon
• The Colon
• Using Commas: A Writer's Guide to Those Impossible Rules
• Using Commas (2): A Writer's Guide to More of Those Impossible Rules
• Subject- Verb Agreement 1: Finding the Subject
• Subject-Verb Agreement: The Rules
• Feeling Comfortable with Verb Tenses