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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. We also have an alphabetical list of our guides.

Academic Writing

Abstracts
Academic Book Reviews
Academic Phrasebank
Analysis

• Analyzing Novels & Short Stories
• Analyzing Plays
• Analyzing Poetry
• Analyzing Scholarly Articles
• Analyzing Visual Images
• Critiques
• Rhetorical Analysis
• Rhetorical Terms

Annotated Bibliography
Arguments

• Argument (Interactive)
• Counterarguments (Video)
• Ethos, Pathos, & Logos (Video)
• Fallacies
• Fallacies, Logical (Video)
• Thesis Statements
• Thesis Statements (Interactive)
• 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
Reflection (Interactive)
Research Papers
Research Posters
Research Writing Process (Interactive)
Scholarly Journal Articles (Interactive)
Scientific Writing
Scientific Writing: Practice Makes It (Almost) Perfect (Video)
Writing Accessibly About Science (Video)
Writing for Publication (Video)

Professional Writing

Business Letters
Business Plans
Cover Letters
Curricula Vitae (CVs)
Emails
Engineering Writing

• 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
 

Citing & Documenting

Academic Integrity, Writing With (Video) (also, Plagiarism)
Citing Sources
Citing Sources (Interactive)
Direct Quoting
Documentation Styles
EasyBib
End Note
MLA Format: A Quick Guide
MLA Style Center Template for Works Cited (Interactive)
Paraphrasing
Plagiarism (also, Academic Integrity (Video)
RefWorks   
Summarizing

Grammar & Mechanics

Agreement (Interactive)
Articles: A, An, & 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 & -ed
Prepositions
Prepositions (Video)
Prepositions of Location (Video)
Pronouns (Video)
Relative Clauses Who, Which, & That
Subject-Verb Agreement: Special Cases (Video)
Tense Shift (Video)
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)
Punctuation (Interactive)
Semicolons & Colons (Video)
Sentence Boundaries (Interactive)
Sentence Types: Clauses
Sentence Types: Phrases

Revising & Editing

Affect vs. Effect (Video)
Clear and Concise Writing
Peer Response
Peer Response Demonstration (Video)
Peer Review (Interactive)
Presentation Checklist
Revising and Proofreading
Transitions (Interactive)
Transition Words & Phrases
Writing Concisely (Interactive)