| 1 | Thesis Statements and Essay Maps | Building a thesis and essay map can be a major pain, and unclear thesis statements and essay maps can lead to disorganization within the essay. This handout will help. |
| 2 | Transitions | This handout discusses various ways to effectively transition between ideas (sentence-to-sentence, paragraph to paragraph). |
| 3 | Plagiarism and Academic Honesty | If you're worried that you've possibly plagiarized, check out this handout. |
| 4 | Integrating Quotations - Guidelines and MLA style | This handout talks about how to effectively integrate quoted information into the flow of your ideas. |
| 5 | Paraphrasing and Summarizing | Confused about what paraphrase and summary are? Check out this handout. |
| 6 | Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions | This handout is all about overall structure and philosophy where the basic parts of the essay are concerned.. |
| 7 | Some Steps Toward Concise Writing | Got wordiness problems? Do you write those kinds of sentences that really, in fact, do seem to take a long time to get a very good and useful point of contention across to the reader who is reading your essay assignment? Check out this handout. |
| 8 | Checklist for Revising Your Work | If it's just a reminder of the basic essay elements you need to address during the revision process, then check out this handout. |
| 9 | Tips for Revising an Essay (with example) | This handout is a useful supplement to our Revision Workshop. Check it out if you're having a hard time thinking through the revision of an essay. |
| 10 | Creating and Using Outlines | Outlining is a fundamental part of the essay-writing process. Check out this handout to learn how to effectively do it. |
| 11 | Taking Essay Examinations | If you feel like you don't do well on exams and tests that involve writing an essay, check out this handout. |
| 12 | Basic English Usage Review | This one-handout wonder addresses a variety of mechanical issues. |
| 13 | Troubleshooting Verbs | This handout helps solve four common categories of verb errors. |
| 14 | APA Guidelines with 2009 Updates | This handout is a resource for basic APA document style. |
| 15 | MLA Guidelines | This handout is a resource for basic MLA style. |
| 16 | Body Paragraphs | This handout describes the essentials of writing good body paragraphs. |
| 17 | Chicago Manual of Style Documentation - Concise Guide | This handout gives the basics for Chicago documentation style. |
| 18 | Parallelism | The purpose of this handout is to define parallelism in writing, to identify the many forms of parallelism, and to demonstrate techniques for recognizing and correcting faulty parallelism. |
| 19 | Verb Tenses - Correcting Shifts | This handout will help you to understand when to use the variety of English tenses. |
| 20 | Passive Voice | Have you been criticized for the use of passive voice? Try this handout. |
| 21 | Independent Clause Errors | This handout helps out on using commas with dependent and independent clauses. |
| 22 | Pronoun Pointers | This handout helps with some basic pronoun problems. |
| 23 | How to Write an Argumentative Synthesis | This handout on the argumentative synthesis essay type may help in preparing you for your essay exam. |
| 24 | Practice Test #1 for the Advanced Composition Exemption Examination | This is an example exemption exam. |
| 25 | Practice Test #2 for the Advanced Composition Exemption Examination | This is another example exemption exam. |
| 26 | Advanced Comp Exemption Sample Exam and Essay | This handout combines an Advanced Comp Exemption Exam sample exam with a sample essay based on the exam. The exam has been commented on extensively by graders familiar with ACEE grading. The comments should give you an idea of what the graders often look for. |
| 27 | Getting over Writer's Block | Can't start? Read this handout. |
| 28 | Short Fiction - General Questions for Analysis and Evaluation | This handout contains a set of general questions that will help you develop your literary analysis. |
| 29 | Literature: Reviewing, Writing, and Revising | This handout is a general introduction to writing about literature. |
| 30 | Job - Applications Letters | This handout helps with job application materials and application letters. |
| 31 | "Statement of Purpose" for Graduate School Applicants | Need to write a Statement of Purpose for graduate school? Check out this handout. |
| 32 | Articles | If English is your second language, and you're not sure when to use "a" or "the" or "an", then check out this handout. |
| 33 | Commas: Almost Everything You Need to Know | Almost Everything You Need to Know About Commas |
| 34 | Developing an Effective Resume | This handout helps with developing an effective resume. |
| 35 | Tips for Writing a Rhetorical Analysis | This handout covers the basic elements of the rhetorical analysis. |
| 36 | Explanatory Synthesis | This handout helps explain the explanatory synthesis, especially within the context of the Composition I course. |
| 37 | Annotation and Critical Reading | This handout explains the useful practices of annotation and critical reading. |
| 38 | History Reviews | This handout is all about how to write a history review. |
| 39 | Writing In Groups | Group writing projects can be stressful. Take some off the stress out of the project by reading this handout. |
| 40 | Writing an Abstract of a Research Project | This handout helps with writing an abstract of a Research Project. |
| 41 | Creating an Annotated Bibliography | Need to write an annotated bibliography? This handout will help. |
| 43 | Poetry Explication | This handout will help you understand the process of explicating a literary work. |
| 44 | Prepositions (ESL) | This handout is useful for ESL students new to English prepositions. |
| 45 | Semicolons and Colons | This handout helps with understanding semicolon and colon usage. |