Handouts & Links
This page will show you handouts and links about:
- Author's Note
- Citations
- English Language Learning Resources
- Evaluations, Academic Statements, & Transcripts
- Grammar
- Inspiration, Growing as a Writer, & Stages of the Writing Process
- Master's in Public Administration & Professional Writing Resources
- Research
- Science Writing
- Seminar Writing
Author's Note
- Take some space to define where you are at with your work. What's going well? What are your goals? What do you think needs improvement? You can use this as part of your process when seeking peer review in class or at the Writing Center. Ask your faculty if you can use it with them to support them in giving you feedback.
Citations
General
- Understanding Citation Styles - Kevin deLaplante (YouTube)
- Why We Cite (PDF) - Michael Radelich & Ladai Dama (Inkwell 3)
- On-Cite Construction: Properly Using Citation to Build a Sound, Critical Essay (PDF) - Michael Radelich (Inkwell 7)
Which Manual Should I Use?
- Writing in the Disciplines (Sacramento State University) - Choosing a style manual for your subject, field, or discipline
By Style Manual
- Each page will lead you into detailed information about how to do in-text citations, reference pages, and formatting for many forms of media from print books to websites, lectures, and podcasts.
- Modern Language Association (MLA) (Purdue OWL)
- American Psychological Association (APA) (Purdue OWL)
- Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) (Purdue OWL)
- Council of Science Editors (CSE) (Merrimack College)
English Language Learners (ELL)
Each of these links takes you to a page where you can choose the grammar area in which you want additional practice. Try practicing the same grammatical rule on each of the sites over the course of a week, focusing on a different rule each week.
- UsingEnglish.com - Learn English (ESL) Online
- 1-language.com: ESL Quizzes
- This site provides several quizzes on different grammar rules. Simply click the link and take the quiz. Also available on another area of the site are whole texts of various works of literature, accessible by clicking "ESL Reading Library" on the main page.
- The Grammar Aquarium: EFL/ESL Grammar Notes and Exercises
- This link provides many quizzes for ELL students and you can either take the quiz online or print the questions out so you can write on it. Along with many of the quizzes the site provides links to notes on the grammatical area you're practicing.
- eslgold.com: Grammar
- This site has tons of quizzes which are divided by level of English proficiency. A student may have to search for a bit, but the abundance of quizzes on various subjects makes this a great resource. The link provided takes you to the "Grammar" area, and from there you can either take quizzes or do exercises.
Evaluations, Academic Statements, & Transcripts
Overview
- Need an overview of the Evergreen-specific transcript writing you are doing? Checkout this very helpful article and chart:
- Learn better from a workshop? Check out the Academic Statement Workshop from April 22, 2020 from Ariel Birks and Luis Apolaya Torres:
Examples
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Academic Statement Examples:
Be the example:
- Looking for a waiver to donate your Academic Statement to science?
Additional Resources
- Think about your career in the context of the whole picture of degree-planning and the story Evergreen tells to new students:
- Handouts usually found in our paper handout rack:
- Visit the Dean's official descriptions on the Academics site:
- You don't have to write your Academic Statements alone. But who should you work with, especially on your Final Academic Statement?
- Dig deep with a lot of questions with this thorough prompt/self-interview handout. This handout includes questions for your Admissions Essay, Orientation Essay, Self-Evaluation, Evaluation of Faculty, Annual Academic Statement and Final Academic Statement:
- Another handout to prompt your thinking about your Annual or Final Academic Statement:
- What genre is an academic statement? Check out this infographic:
Grammar
- What's in a Sentence? Getting to Know the Parts of Speech (PDF)
- Tenses and Conjugation (PDF)
- Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs (PDF)
- Sentence Patterns II: Locating Objects and Complements (PDF)
- Commas 101 (PDF)
- The Complex Sentence: Correcting Fragments (PDF)
- The Compound Sentence: Correcting Run-Ons and Comma Splices (PDF)
- The Compound-Complex Sentence (PDF)
- Parallel Structure (PDF)
- Using Articles (Purdue OWL)
Research
- A Research Strategy (PDF)
- Using Your Sources: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing (PDF)
- Conducting Research (Purdue OWL)
- Writing with Statistics (Purdue OWL)
- Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue OWL)
- Guides tailored to specific areas of research made by Evergreen librarians (Libguides)
- Don't forget to reach out to the reference desk for help finding materials, using citation software, and much more! Evergreen Research Librarians (look at the right-hand sidebar for contact information)
Inspiration, Growing as a Writer, & Stages of the Writing Process
Inspiration
- Writing for Writers about Writing: A Resource Guide - Sara Huntington (An Evergreen Libguide)
- Creative writing: Using Metaphors in Creative Writing (Purdue OWL)
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On Writing Effective Titles: That Feeling of Entitlement (PDF) - Evergreen Writing Center Handout
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See our publication Inkwell for more writing about writing, process, and inspiration!
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By Stage
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Getting Started/Brainstorming
- Beingstorming (PDF) - Grant Miller (Inkwell 2)
- Beginning Your Inquiry (PDF) - Evergreen Writing Center Handout
- Six Basic Claim Types (PDF) - Evergreen Writing Center Handout
- Outlines and Organization (PDF) - Evergreen Writing Center Handout
- Drafting
- Drafting: How to Ride a Dinosaur and Look Good Doing It (PDF) - Ian Ettinger (Inkwell 2)
- Revision
- The Orbital Region: Re-envisioning Revision (PDF) - Dory Nies (Inkwell 2)
- Strategies for Essay Revision (PDF)
- Editing
- Mt. Edit (PDF) - Alejandra Abreu (Inkwell 2)
- Proofreading
- Becoming Reader (PDF) - Meghan McNealy (Inkwell 2)
Resources for MPA and Professionals
- Writing a Case Study analysis
- Writing a Case Study Analysis (Ashford University Writing Center)
- Writing an Annotated Bibliography
- Annotated Bibliography Samples (Purdue OWL)
- Writing a Literature Review
- Literature Reviews (The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Writing a White Paper
- Professional/Technical Writing: White Papers (Purdue OWL)
- Tips for Analyzing Data
- How to Think Like a Data Scientist in 12 Steps - James Le (Medium)
- Introducing a Data Mindset (O'Reilly)
- Don't forget to use the Qualitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center (QuaSR) for any questions about statistics!
- Technical Writing Guidelines
- Writing a One Pager to Prepare for Meetings or Memos
- How to Craft a Great One-Pager - Sarah Sunu, Heather Mannix, and Meg Nakahara (Compass)
- Citation and Style used in MPA
Science Writing
- A Research Strategy (PDF)
- Researching a Scientific Topic: Finding and Using Sources (PDF)
- Strategies for Critical Reading of Technical Writing: Primary Literature (PDF)
- Technical Language (PDF)
- Standard Format of Primary Scientific Literature (PDF) - Evergreen Writing Center Handout
- Title and Abstract: Your Paper in a Nutshell (PDF)
- Putting Scientific Work in Context: Introductions (PDF)
- Methods: A Recipe for Science (PDF)
- Results and Discussion (PDF)
- References and General Format (PDF)
- Peer Review Form for Scientific Writing (PDF)
Seminar Papers
- The Seminar or Response Paper (PDF)
- Seminar Papers: Conversations with Your Mind (PDF) - Calen Swift (Inkwell 3)
- Writing Seminar Papers (short) (PDF) - Cameron Withey (Inkwell 7)
Not seeing what you need? Please let us know how we can better get you the resources you need! Email birksa@evergreen.edu.