W-Center Handouts

General writing handouts

• Compare/Contrast Essays
• Peer-Editing Sheet
• Preparing for the In-Class Essay
• Essay Development
• Thesis Statements
• Transitional Words and Phrases
• The Writing Process

Handouts for research papers

• Writing a Research Paper
• Research Peer-Editing Sheet
• Avoiding Plagiarism

Citing sources

• APA Documentation
• ASA Documentation
• Chicago/Turabian Documentation
• MLA Documentation
  

Graduate school essays and resumes

• Application Letter
• Graduate School Application Essays
  
• Resume Writing

Writing anxiety

• Strategies for Overcoming Writing Anxiety

Punctuation handouts

• Comma Exercises
• Colons and Semicolons

Other writing sites

• The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is also a good resource for information about citation style and formatting, academic writing conventions, and grammar.