Writing Handouts

• Brainstorming
• Creating an Outline
• Proofreading
• Revising
• Overcoming Writer’s Block and Anxiety

• Active vs Passive Voice
• Articles
• Comma Splices
• Headings and Subheadings
• Hypens and Dashes
• Parallelism
• Personal Pronouns
• Semicolons and Colons
• Sentence Fragments
• Subject/Verb Agreement
• Tone
• Transitions
• When to Use First Person (I, me, my)
• Writing “Flow”
• Word Choice

Integrating Sources

• BEAM Method for Source Use
• Block Quotations
• Crafting a Research Space (CARS) – Introductions for Research Papers
• Paraphrasing
• Source Synthesis
• Summarizing
• Quoting

Citing Sources

• WRC’s APA Style Guide
• APA Basics
• WRC’s MLA Style Guide
• MLA Basics
• Chicago: The Basics and Notes-Bibliography Style
• Chicago: Author-Date Style

• Abstracts
• Annotated Bibliographies
• Arguments
• Thesis Statements
• Conclusions
• Introductions
• Literature Reviews
• Personal Statements
• Research Papers