WLDC Tip Sheets

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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Essay Writing

• Audience Awareness
• Brainstorming Methods
• Thesis Statements
• Introductions and Conclusions
• Developing Ideas
• Paragraph Development
• Rhetorical Analysis
• Rhetorical Triangle
• Reverse Outline
• Editing & Proofreading Tips

Writing About Literature

• Literature Analysis Brainstorm Questions
• Literary Devices
• Narrative Voice
• Types of Irony

Reading

• Reading Strategies
• Annotating Strategies
• Writing Summaries
• Rhetorical Triangle
• Rhetorical Analysis

Critical Thinking

• Logical Fallacies

Research and Working with Sources

• Academic Sources
• Research Papers, Start to Finish
• Online Library Database Use
• The Quote Sandwich
• Signal Phrases
• MLA Works Cited Page
• MLA In-Text Citations
• APA 7^th Edition: Reference List
• APA 7^th Edition: In-Text Citations
• APA 7^th Edition: Formatting a Paper and Headings
• Chicago Turabian Style Citations
• Chicago Style Citation Guide

In-Class Essays

• Timed Writing Strategies for Reading Responses

Grammar Topics

• -ed and -ing Adjectives
• Active & Passive Voice
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Apostrophes
• Articles
• Capitalization
• Collective Nouns
• Comma Rules
• Compound Adjectives
• Compound and Complex Sentences
• Conjunctions
• Coordination and Subordination
• Easily Confused Words
• Fragments
• Gerunds & Infinitives
• Independent and Dependent Clauses
• Interjections
• Linking Verbs & Complements
• Nine Parts of Speech
• Nouns
• Objects: Direct & Indirect Objects
• Possessive & Reflexive Pronouns
• Prefixes
• Prepositions
• Pronouns
• Pronunciation for English Language Learners
• Questions for English Language Learners
• Quotation Marks
• Relative Clauses
• Run On Sentences
• Sentence-Level Transitions
• Spelling Tips
• Strong Verbs
• Subject-Verb Pairs & Punctuation
• Suffixes
• Th- Words for English Language Learners
• Verb Forms
• Verb Tenses

Personal & Professional Development

• Writing for Scholarships & College Admission
• Note Taking Strategies
• Resume Tips