Handouts
The Writing Center is continuously updating and adding to our library of handouts! All of our handouts are accessible and available to download.
Handouts are designed to serve as helpful reference materials that break down seemingly complex writing concepts into more easily digestible pieces. If you are feeling stuck, but are not quite ready to make an appointment with us, try reviewing one of our handouts.
Do you have an idea for a handout that is not included in the list below? Feel free to email us at writingcenter@unlv.edu with your suggestion.
- Abstracts
- Academic Tone
- Active and Passive Voice
- AI: Citing In APA & MLA
- Analyzing Texts
- Annotated Bibliographies
- APA Headings
- APA In-Text Citations 7th Edition
- APA References Page 7th Edition
- APA Title Page 7th Edition
- Apostrophes
- Articles
- ASM Style
- Capitalization
- Chicago Author and Date 18th Edition
- Chicago Notes and Bibliography 18th Edition
- Clauses and Sentences
- Colons and Semicolons
- Commas
- Compare and Contrast Essays
- Conclusions
- Editing
- Email Etiquette
- Fragments and Run-on Sentences
- Inclusive Language
- Introductions
- Literary Analysis
- Literature Reviews
- MLA In-Text Citations 9th Edition
- MLA Title Pages
- MLA Works Cited 9th Edition
- Number Agreement
- Organizing Tools
- Organizing As You Write
- Outlines
- Parallel Structure
- Paragraph Structure
- Paraphrasing
- Personal Statement: Strategies for Writing
- Personal Statement: What Is It?
- Phrasal Verbs
- Plagiarism
- Pronoun and Referent Confusion
- Proofreading
- Quotation Marks
- Quoting Source Materials
- Reflecting on Your Writing Processes
- Research Proposal
- Reverse Outline
- Revising
- Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Scholarship Essays
- Sources: CRAAP Test
- Sources: Evaluating
- Sources: Types
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Summarizing
- Synthesis Essays
- Synthesizing Sources
- Thesis Statements
- Transitions
- Verb Tense: Future
- Verb Tense: Past
- Verb Tense: Present
- Verbs of Attribution
- Writing Prompts
- Writing Timed Essays
- Writing Workshops
- Writing for De-stressing