Portal:Writing/Handouts
Contents
1 Key handouts
- Paraphrasing / summarizing techniques in writing
- Transitional devices
- Transitionals chart
- Transitionals guide
- Transitionals: Typical problems of Korean / ESL writers
2 General form & organization
2.1 Writing process
- The writing process
- ESL writing issues for Koreans [typical problems that Korean students have in English]
2.2 Academic genre, styles, and discourse
- Genre analysis guide
- Writing about your field's paradigm [in-class write-up about academic paradigms]
- Genre analysis essay
- Differences between academic & general writing
- Topical structure analysis [guide to coherence & flow in writing]
- Differences between academic & general writing
- Understanding research based articles
2.3 General form and style
2.4 Rhetorical structure
3 Transitionals and coherence
- Transitional devices
- Transitionals chart [landscape version]
- Transitionals guide
- Transitional problems of Korean writers
- Inverted sentences [intro]
- Inversion handout [more grammatical details]
4 Word choice and word formation
4.1 Word choice
4.2 Word formation
- English morphology: Problems to avoid
- English morphology: Morphemes in order of level or acquisition
4.3 Reporting & communication verbs
Use of verbs like reported, stated, mentioned...
5 Source use
5.1 Finding & using sources
- Google search syntax & Google Scholar
- Quick guide to APA and MLA
- Complete guide to APA
- Paraphrasing structures
5.2 Plagiarism & ethics
- General handout: Plagiarism exercise, Paraphrasing techniques
- Misusing statistics
- Research ethics - notes and famous cases
- Research ethics - handout
- Research ethics - problematic scenarios [for class discussion]
- Plagiarism exercise #1 [exercise based on a popular source]
- Plagiarism exercise #2 [based on an academic article]
- Referencing and citations in APA format
- Rewording - paraphrasing and summarizing
- Prezi presentation file about using sources
6 Specialized genres - academic & professional
6.1 Business & professional writing
- Business letter samples
- Business letter samples, annotated
- Academic job cover letter #1 (linguistics / psychology)
- Academic job cover letter #2 (research position)
- Résumé lesson plan [for teachers]
7 Grammar & mechanics
7.1 Writing / discourse grammar
- Definite & indefinite articles
- Complement clauses [that-clauses]
- Relative clauses
- Gerunds and infinitives
- General tips for sentence clarity
