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The UNLV Writing Center offers online copies of the handouts available in our offices. Often, answers to quick questions can be found in these handouts, so please look through our selection before sending quick questions to the Online Writing Lab. For further assistance, please contact the Writing Center to make an appointment or send your questions to the Online Writing Lab.

Our Downloads area contains various printer-friendly versions of our guides. There are Microsoft Word (.doc), PDF, and in some cases, PowerPoint files. These will be link-ready as they become available.

We are developing this site in order to assist members of the UNLV community with various aspects of their writing. This page is by no means comprehensive, so keep checking back as we complete these pages and add additional ones.

Handout List (by Topic)

Documentation Styles

• MLA
• APA
• Chicago Manual of Style

Sentences and Structure

• Articles: When to use a, an, and the.
• Comma Splices: What are comma splices and fused sentences?
• Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers: What are modifiers and how can I avoid using them incorrectly?
• Prepositions: What prepositions are, how they are used, and how to decide what to use.
• Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement: What is a pronoun and an antecdent and the correct relationship between them?
• Sentence Formulas: What are simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences?
• Subject-Verb Agreement: How to make subjects and verbs agree.
• Verb Tenses: When to use the different tenses.

General Writing

• Essay Organization: How to effectively organize an essay.
• Introductions and Conclusions: How to create an interesting introduction and what to include in a conclusion.
• Thesis Statements: What a thesis statement is, why it is important, and how to create and place one in a paper.
• Transitions: How transitions connect ideas and paragraphs.
• Writing About Literature: Ways to write about literature and analyze a text.

Research

• Evaluating Sources: How to judge the credibility and effectiveness of a source.
• How to Write an Abstract: What an abstract is and how it should be written.
• Plagiarism: How to avoid plagiarism in writing and research.
• Research Papers: How to begin writing a research paper.

Style

• Sexist Language: Ways to avoid sexist and other exclusionary language.
• Wordiness and the Passive Voice: How to eliminate wordiness.
• Parallelism: How to use parallelism to improve the fluidity of an argument.