Writing Skills Handouts
On-Line Sources
Arguments
Reading Critically
Content
Introductions
  • Popular vs. Academic Audience Exercise
  • WC HANDOUT: Introductions
  • Funnel Diagram
  • Conclusions
    Thesis Statements
  • Identify the Thesis & Other Basic Skills
  • Organization
  • Writing Mountains
  • Paragraphing
  • Model Paragraph (basic)
  • Effective Paragraph Basics
  • Coherence & Direction  (Sample 1)
  • Coherence & Direction  (Sample 2)
  • Paragraph Coherence: Linking
  • Style
  • Find and Replace (visual directions)
  • Style Checklist
  • Style Checklist: Short Version
  • Eliminating "To Be" Verbs
  • Songs: Made Passive by Me
  • Songs: Active Voice (answers to: "Made Passive by Me")
  • Eliminating Wordiness
  • Diction
  • Sentence Combination
  • End of Sentence Impact
  • Paramedic Method
  • Word Punch: Samples from the New York Times
  • Checklists
    Speeches
    Natural Sciences (Draft Workshops)
  • Proposal
  • Draft WS 1: Content & Preview of Paragraph Linking
  • Draft WS 2: Paragraph Linking (application) and Word Choice
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Draft WS 1: Content
  • Draft WS 2: Citations and Style
  • Final Project
  • In-class Draft Workshop of Final Project
  • DWS #1: Introductions & Thesis Statements
  • DWS # 2: General Content & Paragraphs
  • DWS #3: Paragraph (review), Style, and General Impressions
  • Social Sciences (Draft Workshops)
  • Unit Introduction
  • Observation Report
  • Draft WS 1: Content
  • Draft WS 2: Paragraphs
  • Draft WS 3: Style
  • Annotated Bibliography & Literature Review
  • Draft WS 1: Summaries & APA
  • Draft WS 2: in-class draft of sythnesis
  • Draft WS 3: Paramedic Method
  • Final Project
  • In-class Draft Workshop of Final Project
  • DWS #1: Content
  • DWS # 2: Paragraph Coherence & Unity
  • DWS #3: Paragraph Puzzles, Introductions, & Conclusions
  • DWS #3: Style and Editing
  • Checklist for Success (all skills covered this semester, unless I've forgotten some)
  • Humanities (Draft Workshops)
    • Reflective analysis
  • Draft WS 1: Content, Introduction, and Conclusion
  • Draft WS 2: Organization, Parallelism, and Style
  • Final Project
  • In-class Draft Workshop of Final Project
  • DWS #1: Content
  • DWS # 2: Organization & Paragraphing

  • DWS #3: Introductions & Conclusions: Funnel Diagram
    CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
    • Alphabet Book