Handouts

The Basics

The Very Basics: Essay Structure

The Very Basics: The Parts Of Speech and The Parts Of A Sentence

Quick Punctuation Explanation

Understanding That and Which

Correctly using “How” and “That”

Dangling Modifiers

The Passive Voice

Fixing Overly Short Sentences

Fixing Over-Long Sentences

Word Order: Building Effective Sentences

Sacks and Arrows

If You Only Have Two Minutes

Clarity & Style

Producing and Presenting Your Own Thought

Things To Remember When Writing

Gerunds and Nounised Verbs

“Could,” “Probably,” “Clearly,” and Other Hedges

Reducing Complicated and Wordy Sentences: Exercise

In MLA Style, Which Titles Are Italicized and Which Are Enclosed in Quotation Marks?

Be Sure You Are Using These Words and Phrases Correctly

Structure & Support

Creating Introductions

Body Paragraphs

Finding A Thesis: Playing The Why? Game

Forming Conclusions

Quoting Other Critics, Part I: Plagiarism

Quoting Other Critics: Inserting Quotations

Quoting From The Text You Are Analysing (Also Called “Your Primary Text”)

In MLA Style, Which Titles Are Italicized and Which Are Enclosed in Quotation Marks?