Welcome to WLDC Tip Sheets!
Our writing and grammar tips are intended to be accessible to and usable by everyone. The Writing & Language Development Center (WLDC) is in the process of making our tip sheets more accessible to those with visual disabilities. This is a work in progress. If you need a greater level of accessibility for any of these materials, please contact us at (530) 740-1709.
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Reading
- Choosing a Reading Strategy
- Patterns of Paragraph Development
- T-Chart (blank worksheet)
- T-charts for Active Reading
- Writing Summaries
Critical Thinking
- Fallacies & Emotional Appeals
- Inferences: Schema, Assumptions, Biases
- Post-truth: Evaluating Sources
Research and Working with Sources
- Academic Sources
- Post-Truth: Evaluating Sources
- Research Papers, Start to Finish
- The Quote Sandwich | The Quote Sandwich (accessible)
- Signal Phrases
- MLA Works Cited Page
- MLA In-Text Citations
- APA Running Heads
- Chicago Turabian Style Citations
- Chicago Style Citation Guide
Essay Writing
- Responding to Key Words in Assignments
- Brainstorming
- Thesis Statements
- Introductions and Conclusions
- Paragraph Development
- Developing Ideas
- Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
- Literature Analysis
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Editing & Proofreading Tips
- Active & Passive Voice
- Simple Language
- Strong Verbs
Grammar Topics
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- Nine Parts of Speech
- Adjectives
– Articles
– Compound Adjectives
– -ed and -ing Adjectives - Adverbs
- Capitalization
- Conjunctions
- Easily Confused Words
- Prefixes
- Interjections
- Nouns
– Collective Nouns
– Gerunds & Infinitives - Objects: Direct & Indirect Objects
- Pronunciation for English Language Learners
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
– Possessive & Reflexive Pronouns - Questions for English Language Learners
– Linking Verbs & Complements
– Phrasal Verbs
– Stative Verbs
– Verb Forms
– Verb Tenses - Spelling Tips
- Suffixes
- Th- Words for English Language Learners
- Apostrophes
- Clauses
– Independent and Dependent Clauses
– Relative Clauses - Comma Rules
- Coordination and Subordination | Coordination and Subordination (accessible)
- Fragments
- Quotation Marks
- Run On Sentences
- Sentence-Level Transitions
- Subject-Verb Pairs & Punctuation
Personal & Professional Development
- Writing for Scholarships & College Admission
- Microsoft Keyboard Shortcuts
- Note Taking Strategies
- Resume Tips
- Sample Resume
- Cover Letters
- Forwarding Campus E-mail
- Stress Management