Writing & Speaking Guides Alphabetical List
Alphabetical List of Guides
Use control + f to easily search for a particular subject. Don't see what you need? Contact us to suggest topics.Whatever you're preparing, the UWC is here to lead you through the writing and public speaking process. We've developed hundreds of guides to take you from brainstorming to revision. Besides print handouts, you'll see audio and video files as well as interactive lessons that allow you to self-assess your learning. If you'd rather see guides organized thematically, click here.
- Abstracts
- Academic Book Reviews
- Academic Phrasebank
- Academic Integrity, Writing With (Video) (also, Plagiarism)
- Active & Passive Voice
- Active & Passive Voice (Video)
- Active & Passive Voice (Interactive)
- Affect vs. Effect (Video)
- Agreement (Interactive)
- Agreement, Special Cases in Subject-Verb Agreement (Video)
- Analyzing Novels & Short Stories
- Analyzing Plays
- Analyzing Poetry
- Analyzing Scholarly Articles
- Analyzing Visual Images
- Annotated Bibliography
- Apostrophes (Video)
- Arguments
- Argument (interactive)
- Articles: A, An, & The
- Articles Part I (Video)
- Articles Part II (Video)
- Article Scale,The (Video)
- Assignments (Understanding Writing Assignments)
- Audience Awareness
- Avoid Boring Writing (Audio)
- Brainstorming
- Brainstorming (Video)
- Business Letters
- Business Plans
- Capitalization (Video)
- Citing Sources
- Citing Sources (Interactive)
- Claustophobia: Punctuating Coordinating & Subordinating Sentences (Video)
- Clear and Concise Writing; also Writing Concisely (Interactive)
- Colons (Semicolons & Colons) (Video)
- Commas
- Comma Rules in Spanish
- Comma Splice (Video)
- Comma Usage in Restrictive & Non-Restrictive Clauses(Video)
- Common Grammar Errors
- Commonly Confused Words (Video)
- Comparatives: -er & -est
- Comparison, Degrees of, with Adjectives (Video)
- Conclusions (Audio)
- Conclusions (Interactive)
- Concise Writing (Interactive); also, Clear & Concise Writing
- Conditional Statements (Video)
- Conference Presentations, Effective (Video)
- Contractions & Homonyms (Video)
- Counterarguments (Video)
- Cover Letters
- Critical Reflection: Journals, Opinions, & Reactions
- Critiques
- Curricula Vitae (CVs)
- Dangling (& Misplaced) Modifiers (Video)
- Dashes (Hyphens & Dashes) (Video)
- Decimal Outlines
- Degrees of Comparison, for Adjectives (Video)
- Delivering a Presentation
- Delivering Effective Presentations (Video)
- Demonstratives: This & That
- Direct Quoting
- Dissertation Defense, also The Perfect Defense (Video)
- Dissertation, The Perfect Proposal (Video)
- Documentation Styles
- EasyBib
- Effective Conference Presentations (Video)
- Emails
- End Note
- Engineering Writing
- Essay Exams
- Ethos, Pathos, & Logos (Video)
- Evaluating Scholarly Sources
- Executive Summaries
- Fallacies
- Fallacies, Logical (Video)
- Flow
- History Papers
- Hyphens & Dashes (Video)
- Hypotheses
- Inclusive Language (Interactive)
- Information Literacy
- Introductions (Audio)
- Introductions (Interactive)
- Journal Articles, Scholarly (Interactive)
- Basics of News Writing (Audio)
- Feature News vs. Hard News (Audio)
- Lab Reports
- Library Resources (Undergraduate)
- Library Resources (Graduate)
- Literature Reviews
- Literature Review, The (Get Lit) (Video)
- Logical Fallacies (Video)
- Managing Group Writing Projects
- Memos
- MLA Format: A Quick Guide
- MLA Style Center Template for Works Cited
- Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers (Video)
- Op Eds
- Organization (Interactive)
- Organizing a Presentation
- Overcoming Stage Fright
- Paragraph Construction
- Paragraph Organization (Interactive)
- Paragraph Organization (Video)
- Paraphrasing
- Participles: -ing & -ed
- Passive Voice: see
- Peer Response Demonstration (Video)
- Peer Response
- Peer Review (Interactive)
- Personal Statements
- Plagiarism (also, Academic Integrity (Video)
- Précis
- Prepositions
- Prepositions (Video)
- Prepositions of Location (Video)
- Presentation Checklist
- Presentation Slides
- Presenting with Slides Video)
- Prewriting (Interactive)
- Progress Reports
- Pronouns (Video)
- Proposals
- Punctuating Coordinating & Subordinating Sentences (Claustophobia) (Video)
- Punctuation (Except Commas)
- Punctuation (Interactive)
- Quotations in Presentations
- Reflection (Interactive)
- RefWorks
- Relative Clauses: Who, Which, & That
- Research Papers
- Research Poster
- Research Writing Process (Interactive)
- Resumes
- Reverse Outlining (Video)
- Revising and Proofreading
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Rhetorical Terms
- Science Writing: Practice Makes It (Almost) Perfect (Video)
- Scientific Writing
- Writing Accessibly about Science (Video)
- Scholarly Journal Articles (Interactive
- Selecting a Topic
- Semicolons & Colons (Video)
- Sentence Boundaries (Interactive)
- Sentence Variation, How to Create (Video)
- Sentence Variety (Interactive)
- Sentence Types: Clauses
- Sentence Types: Phrases
- Start a Writing Group
- Subject-Verb Agreement: Special Cases (Video)
- Summarizing
- Tense Shift (Video)
- Thesis Statements
- Thesis Statements (Interactive)
- Thesis Statements (Video)
- Topic Sentences (Video)
- Toulmin Method (Video)
- Transitions (Interactive)
- Transition Words & Phrases
- Understanding Writing Assignments
- Verb Tenses
- Writing Concisely (Interactive), also Clear and Concise Writing
- Writing for Publication (Video)
- Writing Letters of Recommendation
