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A Writer's Guide: Handouts & Activities
We have created this page to help you with your writing when you can't come into the center to see a tutor. Here you will find a guides, activites, and handouts that will help you with most aspects of the writing process. Click on any of the underlined titles to open up the according document. Please feel free to download and print any resources you find here that will assist you in improving your writing!
Brainstorming, Planning, and Essay Organization
The Five Paragraph Essay Outline
Reverse Outlining
Drafting
The Introduction Paragraph
Thesis Generator
They Say/I Say: A Model for Developing Arguments and Thesis Statements
Transitions and Words That Show Logical Relationships
The MEAL Paragraph Plan
Quotations, Paraphrasing, and Paragraph Development
Integrating Sources
The Five Paragraph Essay
The Conclusion Paragraph
Logos, Ethos and Pathos
Revision
Reverse Outlining
11 Tips to Improve Your Writing
What Does My Professor Really Want?
Logical Fallacies
Editing and Proofreading
Articles
Comma Splices and Run-ons
Commas for the Timid and Brave
Fragments
Harry Potter and the Absolute
Harry Potter and the Participial Phrase
Prepositional Phrases
Relative Clauses (page 1)
Relative Clauses (page 2)
Semi-colons, Colons, and Dashes
Sentence Boundaries: Fixing Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices
The Paramedic Method: Making Sentences Clear and Concise
Verb Tenses
MLA Documentation
APA Documentation
General Formatting Guidelines
In-text Citations
Reference List
Chicago Style Documentation
Notes-Bibliography
Author-Date
Bibliographic Guideline
Notes Guideline
