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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 Formatting and Citations 7th Edition (NEW)
MLA Format and Citation 9th Edition (NEW)
Chicago/Turabian (Author-Date) 18th Edition (NEW)

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

 

Writing Process

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

Style

Active Voice and Passive Voice
Graduate Writing Strategies & Expectations

Concise Writing 

Digital Literacy

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

Research Writing 

Incorporating Sources (Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing) (NEW)
Summary, Analysis, & Synthesis  (NEW)

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)
RTP Narratives (NEW)
Scholarship Applications
Scientific Writing (IMRaD Format)  (NEW)

Grammar, Usage, & Mechanics

Adjectives and Adverbs
Articles
Basic Punctuation (New Version Forthcoming)
Capitalization
Commas
Comma Splices, Run-ons, & Sentence Fragments (NEW)
Confusing Word Pairs
Literary Devices
Modifiers
Parallelism (NEW)
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 (NEW)
Thesis Statements  (NEW)
Transitions
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