Helpful Handouts

Listed below are our writing center's helpful handouts on general writing issues, concerns, or strategies. We dedicate a lot of time and energy into keeping these updated, relevant, and helpful as often as we can - therefore, there may be changes or additions to your favorite handouts! Check them out, and enjoy. Feel free to:

Use them at home
Use them in class
Save them for yourself
Share them with a friend

If you see one with an * next to its title, that means the handout is available as a multi-modal handout (it could have a comic, be an illustrated form, or be graphically communicative in another way).

The Resource Market

The Resource Market is part of Virtual Knowledge Market services and brings together resources from the Research Center, Speech Lab, and Writing Center to provide a wide range of self-guided support. The search bar auto populates with ideas based on your search terms and resources are designed to be easy to find and use. Get started: https://www.gvsu.edu/library/km/resource-market-35.htm

Process: What To Know

These handouts can help you at any stage of the writing process, but they focus mainly on how you can prepare for writing (pre-writing support).

The Communication Triangle (Comes with Video)

Brainstorming Tips *

A Guide to Writing Terminology

Attention to Audience *

Avoiding Ambiguity in Your Writing

Avoiding Logical Fallacies in Your Writing

Descriptive Writing: Showing vs. Telling

Managing Your Life / Time Management

Organization Within Paragraphs

Overcoming Writer's Block

Proofreading

Reading Effectively for the Sciences

Reading Strategy: SQ3R*

Reverse Outline

Revision Strategies *

Showing v. Telling* (Comic story connected to The Narrative: Writing About Yourself comic)

Tips for Giving Useful Peer Responses

Using Sources Effectively

Form: Genre & Parts of Papers

These handouts will address questions regarding the content expected in certain genres (resumes, narratives, etc.) and what components must/should be included (titles, headings, etc.).

Abstracts *

Annotated Bibliography

Argumentative Papers: Persuading Your Reader *

Biology Lab Reports

Case Analysis

Essay Tests, Tips for Taking

Headings

Introductions & Conclusions *

Narratives-General *

Response Papers

Review Essay

Speech Language Pathology - Personal Statement