About the Writing Center Handouts

The Writing Center Handouts are intended to aid students in their efforts to produce quality, professional writing. Each handout provides guidelines and suggestions compiled from recent sources within the academic writing discipline. The handouts outline techniques that help students effectively engage in the writing process. The Writing Center hopes that the use of these handouts will assist in accomplishing its mission to help students not only produce better writing but become better writers themselves. The following is a list of all seven categories of handouts and the handouts contained within each one:

Academic Essays

The Writing Process; Titles; Thesis Statements; Introductions; Conclusions; Audience

Research Writing

Basics of a Research Paper; Finding and Evaluating Sources; Plagarism

Pre-Professional Writing

Resumes; Graduate School Admissions Essays; Letters of Application/Follow-up; Scannable Resumes

Special Topics

Rhetorical Analysis; Literary/Textual Analysis; Writing Timed Essays; Personal Essays; Vocabulary Building

Revision

Revision; Levels of Diction; Economy in Writing; Paragraph Unity and Coherence; Logical Fallacies; Transitions; Parallel Structure; Avoiding Shifts; Pronoun Usage; Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers; Active and Passive Voice; Word Choice

Citation Styles

APA Format; MLA Format; Turabian; CSE-style Documentation; Other Citation Resources

Punctuation and Grammar

Commas; Comma Splices and Fused Sentences; Apostrophes; Punctuating a Series; The Colon, Hyphen, Dash, and Semicolon; Punctuating Quotations and Citations; Punctuating Parenthetical Word Groups; Capitalization; Other Grammar Resources for ESL Students