The following slideshows and documents contain useful tips and suggestions regarding common issues in student writing. Some of these tips are process-oriented (e.g. how to generate a thesis) and others are grammar-oriented (e.g. how to use avoid tense shifts). You are welcome to download these documents and use them as guides for improving your writing. More guides and resources will be posted over time.
Process-Oriented Documents
- Writing as a Process: Slideshow ; Writing as a Process: Document
- Overcoming Writer's Block: Slideshow ; Overcoming Writer's Block: Document
- Thesis Statements: Slideshow 1 ; Thesis Statements: Slideshow 2 ; Thesis Statements: Document 1 ; Thesis Statements: Document 2
- Outlining and Pre-Writing: Slideshow ; Outlining and Pre-Writing:Document
- Paragraphing: Slideshow 1 ; Paragraphing: Slideshow 2 ; Paragraphing: Document 1 ; Paragraphing: Document 2
- Editing and Revising: Document 1 ; Editing and Revising: Document 2
- Revision Checklist: Document
- Writing Summaries: Slideshow ;Writing Summaries: Document
- Integrating Quotations: Slideshow
- Flow: Slideshow
- Word Choice: Slideshow ; Word Choice: Document
- Research Project Planning: Document
- Source Evaluation Checklist: Document
- Annotated Bibliographies: Slideshow ; Annotated Bibliographies: Document
- Avoiding Plagiarism: Slideshow ; Avoiding Plagiarism:Document
- Science Writing: Slideshow ; Science Writing: Document
Grammar-Oriented Documents
- Sentence Structure and Variety: Document
- Comma Use and Misuse: Slideshow ; Comma Use and Misuse: Document
- Comma Splices: Slideshow ; Comma Splices: Document
- Coordination and Subordination: Slideshow ; Coordination and Subordination: Document
- Agreement: Slideshow ; Agreement: Document
- Its vs It's: Document
- Active vs. Passive Voice: Slideshow ; Active vs. Passive Voice: Document
- Hyphens & Dashes: Slideshow ; Hyphens & Dashes: Document
- Modifiers: Slideshow ; Modifiers: Document
- Colons & Semicolons: Slideshow ; Colons & Semicolons: Document
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