Writing Center Handouts
The Writing Center offers the following handouts, many of which include exercises and answer keys. Print out a .pdf copy now-- or stop by the Center for paper copies!
Using Sources
- How Do I Cite?
- How Do I Paraphrase?
- What's Common Knowledge?
- Why Is It Plagiarism?
- Citing Your Sources
- Comparing Citation Styles
- APA Style
- APA Sample Paper
- MLA Style
- MLA Paper Format: What an MLA Paper Looks Like
- Chicago Style
The Process and the Paper
- Abstracts
- Conclusions
- Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
- Introductions
- Paragraphing
- Prewriting: Getting Started
- Revising
- Thesis Statements
Editing and Mechanics
- Agreement
- Apostrophes
- Articles
- Capitalization
- Colons
- Commas: Four Basic Uses
- Concrete and Specific Language
- Dashes
- Finding and Fixing Fragments
- Fragment Exercises
- Modifiers
- Parts of Speech
- Passive Voice
- Prepositions
- Questions and Question Marks
- Quotation Marks
- Run-on Sentences
- Run-on and Fragment Exercise
- Semicolons
- Sentence Structure
- Singular and Plural
- Sentence Combining
- Singular and Plural
- Spelling Easily Confused Words
- Transitions
- Verb Tenses
- Wordiness
Kinds of Writing
- Comparison-Contrast Papers
- Graduate School Application Letters
- Interviewing Effectively
- Literature Papers: Checklist
- Literature Papers: Plot vs. Interpretation
- Personal Statements
- Scientific Writing: Organization
- Scientific Writing: IMRAD Structure Chart
Last Modified: 05/13/2013