Handouts and Exercises
See also: UWS Exercise Book 2017-2018 (DOC)- Active and Passive Voice (DOCX; PDF)
- Active Verbs for Discussing Ideas (DOCX; PDF)
- Agreeing, Disagreeing, and Standing Your Ground (DOCX; PDF)
- Annotated Bibliographies (DOCX; PDF)
- Articles (DOCX; PDF)
- Articulating Your Research Topic (DOCX; PDF)
- Asking an Analytical Question (DOCX; PDF)
- Body Paragraphs (DOCX; PDF)
- Choosing a Research Topic (DOCX; PDF)
- Close Reading an Email (DOCX; PDF)
- Comparative Essays (DOCX; PDF)
- Concision (DOCX; PDF)
- Conclusion Ideas (DOCX; PDF)
- Conclusion Paragraphs (DOCX; PDF)
- Counterargument (DOCX; PDF)
- Cover Letters (DOCX; PDF)
- Dummy Subjects (DOCX; PDF)
- Eight Ways of Using a Source (DOCX; PDF)
- End Stop Punctuation, Fragments, and Commas (DOCX; PDF)
- Features of a Good Abstract (DOCX; PDF)
- Features of a Successful Thesis (DOCX; PDF)
- First Person (DOCX; PDF)
- Four Types of Unnecessary Words and Phrases (DOCX; PDF)
- Grad School Application Statements (DOCX; PDF)
- How Elements of Writing Look Different in the Sciences (DOCX; PDF)
- Idea and Motive (DOCX; PDF)
- Improving Your Writing Style (DOCX; PDF)
- Incorporating Sources (DOCX; PDF)
- Ineffective Introductions (DOCX; PDF)
- Introductions (DOCX; PDF)
- Introductory Paragraphs (DOCX; PDF)
- Making Passive Sentences Active (DOCX; PDF)
- The Matrix Method for Literature Reviews (DOCX; PDF)
- Misused Words (DOCX; PDF)
- Motivating Moves (DOCX; PDF)
- Motive in the Disciplines (DOCX; PDF)
- Opener Ideas (DOCX; PDF)
- Paragraphs (DOCX; PDF) see also Introduction, Body, Conclusion, Research
- Parallelism (DOCX; PDF)
- Phrases for Introducing Sources and Quotations (DOCX; PDF)
- Plagiarism Exercises (DOCX; PDF)
- Plagiarism Handout (DOCX; PDF)
- Plagiarism Infographic (PDF 1UP; PDF 2UP for printing)
- Prepositions (DOCX; PDF)
- Proofreading Tips and Resources (DOCX; PDF)
- Real World Motive Exercise (DOCX; PDF)
- Research Paragraphs (DOCX; PDF)
- Reverse Outlining (DOCX; PDF)
- Run-On Sentences (DOCX; PDF)
- Scholarly vs. Non-Scholarly Journal Articles (DOCX; PDF)
- Science-Themed Writing (DOCX; PDF)
- Source Functions across the Disciplines (DOCX; PDF)
- Stitching Words (DOCX; PDF)
- Style (DOCX; PDF)
- Subordinate Clauses (DOCX; PDF)
- Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting (DOCX; PDF)
- Terminology: Elements of the Academic Essay (DOCX; PDF)
- Tips for Writing an Effective Thesis Statement (DOCX; PDF)
- UWS Lens Essays (DOCX; PDF)
- UWS Research Essays (DOCX; PDF)
- Verb Tenses: General (DOCX; PDF)
- Verb Tenses: Literature (DOCX; PDF)
- Verb Tenses: Science (DOCX; PDF)
- Voice and Analysis (DOCX; PDF)
- Word Choice Handout (DOCX; PDF)
- Word Choice Exercises (DOCX; PDF)
- Working with Quotations (DOCX; PDF)
- Writing a Literature Review (DOCX; PDF)