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Writing & Speaking Guides

Our guides take you from brainstorming to revision. Besides handouts, you'll see we've listed podcasts and videos as well as interactive lessons that allow you to self-assess your learning.

Academic Writing

  • Abstracts
  • Academic Book Reviews
  • Academic Phrasebank
  • Analyzing Novels & Short Stories
  • Analyzing Plays
  • Analyzing Poetry
  • Analyzing Scholarly Articles
  • Analyzing Visual Images
  • Critiques
  • Rhetorical Analysis
  • Rhetorical Terms
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Arguments
  • Counterarguments (Video)
  • Ethos, Pathos, & Logos (Video)
  • Fallacies
  • Fallacies, Logical (Video)
  • Thesis Statements
  • Toulmin Method (Video)
  • Critical Reflection: Journals, Opinions, & Reactions
  • The Perfect Proposal (Video)
  • Essay Exams
  • Flow
  • History Papers
  • Hypotheses
  • Lab Reports
  • Literature Reviews
  • Literature Reviews (Get Lit) (Video)
  • Précis
  • Research Papers
  • Research Posters
  • Scientific Writing
  • Scientific Writing: Practice Makes It (Almost) Perfect (Video)
  • Writing Accessibly About Science (Video)
  • Writing for Publication (Video)

Professional Writing

  • Business Letters
  • Cover Letters
  • Curricula Vitae (CVs)
  • Emails
  • Are Communication Skills Important? (Video)
  • Engineering Writing with Dr. Robert Lane (Video)
  • What Makes a Good Resume? (Video)
  • Executive Summaries
  • Basics of News Writing (Audio)
  • Feature News vs. Hard News (Audio)
  • Memos
  • Op Eds
  • Personal Statements
  • Progress Reports
  • Proposals
  • Resumes
  • Writing Letters of Recommendation

Science Writing

  • Science Writing (Video)
  • Writing Accessibly About Science
  • Writing in Engineering with Dr. Robert Lane (Audio)
  • How to Write Your ETAM Application
  • Science Writing
  • Science Writing and Principles of Good Presentations
  • Are Communication Skills Important? (Video)

Presentations

  • Delivering a Presentation
  • Delivering Effective Presentations (Video)
  • Effective Conference Presentations (Video)
  • Dissertation Defense
  • The Perfect Defense (Video)
  • Organizing a Presentation
  • Overcoming Stage Fright
  • Presentation Checklist
  • Presentation Slides
  • Presenting with Slides Workshop (Video)
  • Quotations in Presentations

Brainstorming & Planning

  • Audience Awareness
  • Brainstorming
  • Brainstorming (Video)
  • Decimal Outlines
  • Reverse Outlining (Video)
  • Selecting a Topic
  • Thesis Statements (Video)
  • Understanding Writing Assignments

Researching

  • Academic Integrity, Writing With (Video)
    • Plagiarism
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote
  • Evaluating Scholarly Sources
  • Information Literacy
  • Library Resources (Undergraduate)
  • Library Resources (Graduate)
  • RefWorks

Drafting

  • Active & Passive Voice
  • Active & Passive Voice (Video)
  • Affect vs. Effect (Video)
  • Avoid Boring Writing (Audio)
  • Clear & Concise Writing
  • Commonly Confused Words (Video)
  • Conclusions (Audio)
  • Introductions (Audio)
  • Managing Group Writing Projects
  • Paragraph Construction
  • Paragraph Organization (Video)
  • Sentence Variation, How to Create (Video)
  • Start a Writing Group
  • Thesis Statements (Video)
  • Topic Sentences (Video)
  • Transition Words & Phrases
  • Writing Effective Introductions (Video)

Citing & Documenting

  • Citing Sources
  • Citations (Video)
  • Direct Quoting
  • Documentation Styles
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote
  • MLA Format: A Quick Guide
  • Paraphrasing
  • How to Quote (Video)
  • RefWorks
  • Summarizing

Grammar & Mechanics

  • Avoid Vague Pronouns (Videos)
  • Articles: A, An, and The
  • Articles: Part I (Video)
  • Articles: Part II (Video)
  • The Article Scale (Video)
  • Capitalization (Video)
  • Common Grammar Errors
  • Comparatives: -er & -est
  • Comparisons (Degrees of, for Adjectives) (Video)
  • Conditional Statements (Video)
  • Demonstratives: This & That
  • Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers (Video)
  • Participles: -ing and -ed
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositions (Video)
  • Prepositions of Location (Video)
  • Pronouns (Video)
  • Relative Clauses: Who, Which, & That
  • Subject-Verb Agreement: Special Cases (Video)
  • Tense Shift (Video)
  • Using Active & Passive Voice
  • Verb Tenses

Punctuation

  • Apostrophes (Video)
  • Commas
  • Comma Rules in Spanish
  • Comma Splice (Video)
  • Comma Usage in Restrictive & Non-Restrictive Clauses (Video)
  • Contractions & Homonyms (Video)
  • Hyphens & Dashes (Video)
  • Punctuating Coordinating & Subordinating Sentences (Video)
  • Punctuation (Except Commas)
  • Semicolons & Colons (Video)
  • Sentence Types: Clauses
  • Sentence Types: Phrases

Revising & Editing

  • Affect vs. Effect (Video)
  • Clear and Concise Writing
  • Peer Response
  • Peer Response Demonstration (Video)
  • Presentation Checklist
  • Revising & Proofreading
  • Topic Sentences (Video)
  • Transition Words & Phrases
  • Writing Clearly & Concisely (Video)
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