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
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
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)
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