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Writing Handouts


Writing Center - Humanities  - Social Sciences - Natural Sciences - Engineering


Term Abroad Essays


Writing Center

  • Faculty Concerns about Student Writing (A survey of faculty,  February, 1999.)
  • Popular topics 
    • Comma Rules
    • Colons
    • Avoiding the passive Voice
    • Usage (word choice)
  • Improving Writing
    • Make the Actor the Subject, the Action, the Verb
    • Loose and periodic sentences
    • Parallel Structure & Repetition
  • Dictionaries
  • Reading about Writing
  • A partial review of the parts of speech
    • Adjectives and adverbs
    • phrases
    • Conjunctions
    • prepositions
    • pronouns
    • verbs

Humanities

  • Hugh Jenkins
    • The Seven (Potentially) Deadly Sins, by Hugh Jenkins
    • The Four Commandments, by Hugh Jenkins
    • Relating Ideas, by Hugh Jenkins
    • Keywords, by Hugh Jenkins
  • Jim McCord
    • Prof. Mac's 20 Point Pack for Writing Well and Correctly
    • Prof. McCord's handouts on plagiarism, conferencing, and revising

Social Sciences

  • Senior Project Information, by Doug Klein
  • Stylistic Advice for Thesis Students, by Doug Klein
  • Checklist for Grammar and Style, by Steve Sargent

Natural Sciences

  • How to Write a Biology Lab Report  
  • Guide to Writing a Formal Physics Lab Report, by Chad Orzel
  • Checklist for Physics Lab Reports, by Chad Orzel

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