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Materials

Handouts and exercises on many academic writing issues, including paragraph and essay organization, grammar and style, punctuation and mechanics, ESL, citing sources, and writing about literature are available in the Writing Center.

Below are links to some materials prepared by the staff of the Writing Center.

Handouts

• Basic Tips for Writing a Literary Analysis  PDF 11K
• Guidelines for Writing a Literary Critical Analysis

  PDF 13K

  HTML Format

• Thesis Statement Basics
  

  PDF 19K

  HTML Format

• Writing a Research Paper
• Formatting a Paper in Microsoft Word How to set up a paper in MLA format on a computer.
• Creating a Works Cited Page How to set up a works cited page in MLA format on a computer

Grammar Charts

• Compounding Methods (like the poster in the Writing Center)
• Both Subordinators and Relative Pronouns Begin Dependent Clauses (like the poster in the Writing Center)
• Common Prepositions (like the poster in the Writing Center)
• Linking Verbs and Helping Verbs
• Pronoun Case

Term Paper Handbooks

• MLA handbook  PDF 152K. Sierra College students and staff can pick up a free copy of the Writing Center's Term Paper Handbook for MLA Format in LRC 424 on the Rocklin Campus. (To open the PDF file, your computer needs Adobe Reader®.*)
• Models for an MLA Style Works Cited Page
  How to cite various types of documents (from the Writing Center's Term Paper Handbook for MLA Format).
• APA handbook PDF 127K. Sierra College students and staff can pick up a free copy of the Writing Center's Term Paper Handbook for APA Format in LRC 424 on the Rocklin Campus. (To open the PDF file, your computer needs Adobe Reader®.*)
• Models for an APA Style References Page
  How to write references to various types of documents (from the Writing Center's Term Paper Handbook for APA Format).

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