Writing Center Handouts
The Writing Center offers the following handouts, many of which include exercises and answer keys. Download a .pdf copy now-- or stop by the center for paper copies! The links on this page are all .pdf files requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Using Sources
More APA resources, including an email link for fast questions, are at our Using APA Style page.
- APA Seventh Edition Changes
- APA Seventh Edition Sample Paper
- APA Seventh Edition Style
- APA Sixth Edition Headers and Titles
- APA Sixth Edition Headings
- APA Sixth Edition Sample Paper
- APA Sixth Edition Style
- Chicago Style
- Citing Your Sources (in any style)
- MLA Format (what an MLA paper looks like)
- MLA Style
- Paraphrasing
- Plagiarism
Kinds of Writing
The Process and the Paper
Editing and Mechanics
- Concrete and Specific Language Handout
- Colons
- Spelling Easily Confused Words
- Semicolons
- Capitalization
- Run-on Sentences
- Fragment Exercises
- Prefixes
- Agreement
- Apostrophes
- Articles
- Commas: Four Basic Uses
- Common Roots
- Dashes
- Finding and Fixing Fragments
- Introductions
- Modifiers
- Parts of Speech
- Passive Voice
- Prepositions
- Questions and Question Marks
- Quotation Marks
- Revising
- Run-on and Fragment Exercise
- Sentence Combining
- Sentence Structure
- Singular and Plural
- Transitions
- Verb Tenses
- Wordiness