Writing Handouts

Visit these pages for advice on writing offered by the UC Writing Centre:

• Organizing an Essay
• Using Quotations
• Paraphrase and Summary
• Using Topic Sentences
• Introductions and Conclusions
• The Comparative Essay
• new Writing in the Sciences
• Fixing Comma Splices
• Punctuation
• Using Articles
• Faulty Parallelism
• Passive Voice: When to Use It and When to Avoid It
• new Dangling Modifiers
• Plurals
• Possessives
• The Transition from High School to University Writing
• Books on Writing about Literature
• Web Sites on Writing about Literature

Other writing links:

• University of Toronto's Advice Files
• Purdue University's Online Handouts
• University of Victoria's Writer's Guide
• University of Ottawa's Hypergrammar