Help for common problems
Writing with academic integrity: How to use sources, cite correctly, and avoid plagiarism: a video introduction:
Handouts about the Writing Process
Getting Started (Printable PDF)
Combining Sentences (Printable PDF)
Interruptions and Disgressions (Printable PDF)
Mixed Construction (Printable PDF)
Paragraph Transitions (Printable PDF)
Thesis Statements (Printable PDF)
Using Research Effectively (Printable PDF)
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Handouts about Grammar
Active vs. Passive Voice (Printable PDF)
Internal Shifts (Printable PDF)
Making Pronoun References Clear (Printable PDF)
Nominalizations (Printable PDF)
Problems with Modifiers (Printable PDF)
Run-on Sentences (Printable PDF)
Sentence Fragments (Printable PDF)
Sentence Variety (Printable PDF)
Structural Parallelism (Printable PDF)
Subject-Verb Agreement (Printable PDF)
Subject-Verb Agreement – Indefinite pronouns and collective nouns (Printable PDF)
Stylistic Parallelism (Printable PDF)
Which or that? (Printable PDF)
Handouts about Punctuation
Commas in a list (Printable PDF)
Parentheses and Brackets (Printable PDF)