Core Writing Program Handouts Core Writing Program HandoutsJump to: 098, 101, 102, General Handouts
| Handout Name | Description | Keywords |
| Audience and Purpose | Describes types of readers in professional contexts, lists questions to ask about audience and purpose | Audience, bias, purpose, rhetorical awareness, tone |
| Audience, Tone, and Purpose | How to decide on the appropriate audience, tone, and purpose | Audience, level of formality, purpose, rhetorical awareness, rhetorical situation, tone, voice |
| Commas in Sentences | How to use commas after introductory word groups in a sentence | Commas, grammar, punctuation |
| Critical Thinking | Tells what critical thinking is and isn't, and has a critical thinking checklist | Analysis, audience, assumptions, bias, critical thinking, evaluation, evidence, point of view, purpose, self-awareness, summary |
| Definitions | How to write sentence definitions and extended definitions | Definitions, extended definitions, sentence definitions |
| Format Handout 1 | Format guidelines, with an example | Format |
| Format Handout 2 | Format guidelines, with an example | Format |
| Integrating Quotations | Describes seven ways to integrate a quotation into a sentence, with examples. | Quotations, quoting, sentence variety |
| Introductions and Conclusions | How to write introductions and conclusions. Includes explanations of what intros and conclusions do, questions for the writer to ask him/herself, and examples. | Conclusions, introductions |
| Paragraph Transitions | Description of transition techniques for linking paragraphs, and an exercise | Coherence, paragraphs, transitions |
| The P.I.E. Paragraph | Paragraph organization and development; relationship between Point, Information, and Explanation | Organization, paragraphs |
| Reading on Three Levels | How to read for literal meaning, interpret a text, and evaluate a text | Believing & doubting game, diction, critical reading, critical thinking, interpretation, logic, style |
| Reading Tips | Tips on active reading techniques and discipline-specific vocabulary | Active reading, marking up texts, vocabulary, writing on texts |
| Reverse Outlining | How to reverse outline some else's text | Organization, outlining, reading |
| Reverse Outlining One's Own Writing | How to reverse outline one's own text | Coherence, metacognition, organization, outlining |
| Revision and Editing Checklist | This is exactly what it sounds like--a checklist to use while revising or editing. | Editing, revision |
| The Socratic Method | Excerpt from Plato’s Euthyphro | Socratic method |
| Style and Discourse Conventions | A list of style elements and questions to consider when examining the discourse conventions in a text. | Conventions, disciplinary writing, discourse, style |