This site lists over 120 handouts available on the following major categories, many of which are subdivided. So be sure to browse around.
Invention/Planning
- When You Start to Write
- Planning: Thought Starters (Asking the Right Questions) (101)
- Thought Starters
- Starting to Write
- Developing an Outline
- Sample Outline
- Invention/Planning
Editing/Proofreading
- Higher Order Concerns (HOCs) and Lower Order Concerns (LOCs)
- Proofreading Strategies
- Steps in Editing (Proofreading) Your Papers
- Proofreading, Editing, and Revising
- Proofreading Your Paper
- Non-Sexist Language
- Constructing Paragraphs
- Paragraphing
Style/Clarity/Coherence
- Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity
- Conciseness
- Conciseness-Exercise #1
- Transitions
- Adding Emphasis
- Coherence
- Eliminating Wordiness
Dealing with Writing Anxiety
Other Issues/Topics
- Writing Research Papers: A Step-by- Step Procedure
- Quotation Marks
- Quotation Marks and Italics- Exercise #1
- Semicolons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks,and Italics
- Semicolons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks,and Italics-Exercise
- Paraphrasing -Exercise #1
- Paraphrasing -Answers to Exercise #1
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
- MLA Format
- APA Format
- Sociology Format
- Citing Electronic Sources
- Developing Outlines
- Sample Outlines
- Using Statistics
- Using Search Engines
- Conducting a Productive Web-based Search
- Your Resume
- Acceptance Letter-Sample Letter
- After Interview Letter-Sample Letter
- Letters Concerning Employment
- Accepted Another Position Letter- Sample Letter
- Cover Letter Seeking Academic Position-Sample Letter
- Job Offer Letter-Sample Letter
- The Resume: Making It Work for You
- Reference Sheet
- Resume Sections
- Application Letters: How to Sell Yourself
- Some Action Words to Describe Skills in Resumes
- Writing the Personal Statement
- Job Search Self-Analysis
- Use and Non-Use of Articles (A/An/The)
- Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- Count and Non-Count Nouns
- Count and Non-Count Nouns- Exercise
- Count and Non-Count Nouns-Exercise Answers
- Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- Gerunds and Infinitives
- Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives, and Appositives
- Prepositions of Direction: To, On(to), In(to)
- Prepositions of Location: At, In, On
- Verb Endings
- Verb Chart
Nouns
- Count and Non-Count Nouns
- Count and Non-Count Nouns-Exercise
- Count and Non-Count Nouns- Answers to Exercise
Verbs
- Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
- Verbs with Helpers
- Troublesome Verbs
- Sequence of Tenses
- Two-Part Verbs
- Verbs: Voice and Mood
- Tense Consistency
- Tense Consistency-Exercise #1
- Verb Endings
- Verb Chart
- Active/Passive Voice in Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives and Adverbs
Verbals
Prepositions
Common Errors
Sentence Punctuation
Dangling Modifiers
Fragments
Parallel Structure
Definitions
Active/Passive Voice in Verbs
Sentences
Commas
- Commas
- Commas after Introductions
- Exercise #1
- Exercise #2
- Exercise #3
- Exercise #4
- Commas and Semicolons in Compound Sentences
- Run-ons, Comma Splices, Fused Sentences
- Proofreading for Commas
- Commas Set off Non- Essentials
Apostrophes
Quotation Marks
- Quotation Marks
- Quotation Marks and Italics- Exercise #1
- Quotation Marks: Direct and Indirect Quotes
Hyphens
Other Punctuation
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This document is part of a collection of instructional materials used in the Purdue University Writing Lab. The on-line version is part of OWL (On-line Writing Lab), a project of the Purdue University Writing Lab, funded by the School of Liberal Arts at Purdue.