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Writing Handouts

These downloadable handouts were created by writing consultants as a collaborative project and encompass a wide variety of topics often discussed in consultations:

GENRES	COMPONENTS	STRATEGIES	GRAMMAR	RESOURCES
Abstracts	APA Reference Sheet (7th Edition)	Analysis vs. Summary	Apostrophes	Checklist for Evaluating a Presentation
Annotated Bibliographies	Chicago Reference Sheet (17th Edition)	Brainstorming Outlining and Organizing	Articles (Definite and Indefinite) + Count and Noncount Nouns	NC State Campus Resources
Conventions of U.S. Academic Writing	Conclusions	How to Peer Review	Capitalization	NC State Library Resources
Effective Email Communication	Counterarguments	Incorporating Your Learning Style into Writing	Commas
Grant Proposals	Fallacies	Moving Past Writer’s Block	Conditional Phrases + Modals
Literature Reviews	Introductions	Planning Your Paper	Dealing with Tricky Words
Narrative Basics and Autoethnography	MLA Reference Sheet (8th Edition)	Preparing for Interviews and Negotiating Salaries	Passive and Active Voice
Personal Statements and Statements of Purpose	Paraphrasing and Summarizing Sources	Reading a Scholarly Text	Prepositions
Resumes, CVs, Cover Letters, Personal Statements	Quotations and Using Credible Sources	Strategies for Proofreading	Semicolons, Colons, and Dashes
Rhetorical Analysis	Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences	Ten Writing Priorities and Revising, Editing, and Proofreading	Sentence Variety
Scientific Lab Reports	Transition Words and Phrases		Subject-Verb Agreement
Speeches and Oral Presentations			Verb Tense
			Word Choice