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Handouts

UVU Writing Center handouts and resources are available for educational use (classroom instruction, tutoring, workshops, etc.). While these materials cover a range of general writing concepts, writers should tailor their work to their specific audience and assignment.

Citations Style and Formats

APA Citation
APA Format
MLA Citation
MLA Format
Chicago/Turabian (Author-Date) 17th Edition
Chicago/Turabian (Author-Date) 18th Edition (NEW)

Chicago/Turabian (Notes, Bibliography) 17th Edition

Chicago/Turabian (Notes, Bibliography) 18th Edition (NEW)

 

Writing Process

Prewriting & Outlining
Revision Strategies & Checklist
Graduate School Application Timeline
Writing as a College Student

Style

Active-Passive Voice
Graduate Writing Strategies & Expectations

Concise Writing 

Digital Literacy

AI & Academic Assignments (Students)
AI & Academic Assignments (Faculty)

Research Writing 

Summary, Analysis, & Synthesis  (New Version Forthcoming)

Common Assignments & Genres

Annotated Bibliography (NEW)
Cover Letters
Email Communication
Literature Review (NEW)
Personal Statements
Persuasive Writing  (New Version Forthcoming)
Resumes & CVs  (New Version Forthcoming)
Rhetorical Analysis  (New Version Forthcoming)
Scholarship Applications
Scientific Writing (IMRaD Format)  (NEW)

Grammar, Usage, & Mechanics

Adjectives & Adverbs
Articles
Basic Punctuation (New Version Forthcoming)
Capitalization
Commas
Comma Splices, Run-ons, & Sentence Fragments (NEW)
Confusing Word Pairs
Literary Devices
Modifiers
Parallelism  (New Version Forthcoming)
Parts of Speech (New Version Forthcoming)
Prepositions
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement
Verb Tenses

Organization

Abstracts
Basic Paragraph Structure
Basic Essay Structure
Introductions & Conclusions
Thesis Statements  (New Version Forthcoming)
Transitions

Technology Assistance

Clipboard functions
Editing Documents
Formatting Documents
Navigating Canvas
Saving & Exporting Documents
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