Here is a complete list of printable PDFs for advice files on this site intended for student use.
- Abstract
- Academic Proposal
- Annotated Bibliography
- Application Letters and Résumés
- Articles
- Book Review or Article Critique
- Comparative Essay
- Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing
- Dealing with New Words
- Developing Coherent Paragraphs
- Effective Admission Letters
- Expressions of Quantity: Special Cases of Subject-Verb Agreement
- Faulty Parallelism
- Fixing Comma Splices
- Fixing Dangling Modifiers
- How Not to Plagiarize
- How to Get the Most Out of Reading
- How to Use Active Voice in the Sciences
- Introductions and Conclusions
- Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It
- Paraphrase and Summary
- Passive Voice: When to Use It and When to Avoid It
- Plurals and Possessives
- Previewing
- Punctuation
- Quotations
- Revising And Editing
- Sentence Fragments
- Skimming and Scanning
- Some General Advice on Academic Essay-Writing
- Special Cases in the Use of the Definite Article
- Spelling
- Standard Documentation Format (7th Edition)
- Standard Documentation Formats
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Summarizing
- Taking Notes from Research Reading
- The Lab Report
- Thesis and Grant Proposals
- Thesis Statements
- Topic Sentences
- Transition from High-School to University Writing
- Unbiased Language
- Understanding Essay Topics: A Checklist
- Using Gerunds and Infinitives
- Using the Computer to Improve Your Writing
- Verbs for Referring to Sources
- Wordiness: Danger Signals and Ways to React
- Writer's Block
- Writing a Philosophy Essay
- Writing about Literature
- Writing for the Public
- Writing in the Sciences