Student Resources
The Student Success Center has many guides, handouts, and tip sheets about writing, math, science, and general study skills. On this page, you can find handouts about APA format, understanding articles, active and passive sentences, body paragraphs, bracket use, business correspondences, cover letters, capitalization, Chicago or Turabian format, colons, comma use, comma splices, conclusion, dangling modifiers, dashes, and documentation.
These guides and tips are designed to help you navigate certain aspects of the writing process, including building grammatical skills and writing strong sentences.
A-M
A, An or The? Understanding Articles
APA Format - Writing Abstracts
APA Style - How to Format a Running Head
APA Quick Reference Guide: Section I
APA Quick Reference Guide: Section II
N-Z
Scholarly versus Non-scholarly Sources
Sentence - An Introduction to Sentence Patterns
Sentences - Active and Passive Sentences
Sentences - Body Paragraphs Topic Sentences
Sentences - Comma splices and Fused Sentences
Sources - Find and Evaluate Internet Sources
Sources Primary versus Secondary
Sources - Scholarly versus Non Scholarly Sources
Sources - Signal Your Commentary on Source Material
Summarize - Learn to Summarize
Summarize - Practice Paraphrase Summarize
Supplement Notes in MLA Papers
Thank You Letters After Job Interviews
Transitioning Within and Between Paragraphs
Understanding Verbs Basic Types of Verbs
Variance and Standard Deviation
Verbs - Understanding Verbs Gerunds Participles
Verbs - A Review of Verb Tense
Verbs - Action Verbs for Resumes
Verbs - Phrasal Verbs as Idioms
Verbs - Subject Verb Agreement Part 1
Verbs - Subject Verb Agreement Part 2
Verbs - Understanding Basic Types of Verbs
Verbs - Understanding Verb Tenses