Academic Success Center Writing Handouts

The handouts below address the essential sentence skills all college writers need. Each handout is printer-friendly for review, study and practice. For additional help, the writing area in each Academic Success Center is staffed with paraprofessionals and English instructors who are ready to assist enrolled students with their composition skills.

Capitalization

• Beginning and Ending Sentences
• Beginning and Ending Sentences Practice

Fragments

• Fragment Practice I
• Fragment Practice II

Parallelism

• Parallelism with Practice

Pronouns

• Making Subjects, Verbs and Pronouns Agree
• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
• Pronoun Case
• Pronoun Practice: Agreement and Case

Punctuation

Apostrophe

• Ten Apostrophe Rules
• Using the Apostrophe
• Possessives
• Apostrophe Practice
• Commonly Misspelled Words and Apostrophes

Comma

• Comma and Semicolon Overview
• Coordination: Compound Sentence Patterns
• Coordination: Practices in Usage
• Subordination: Complex Sentence Patterns
• Subordination: Punctuation Drill
• Subordination: Practice Test
• Punctuation Pattern Sheet for Joining Clauses
• Coordination, Subordination and Semicolon Review
• More Coordination and Subordination Practice

Exclamation Point, Period, and Question Mark

• Beginning and Ending Sentences
  
• Beginning and Ending Sentences Practice

Semicolon

• Comma and Semicolon Overview
• Coordination: Compound Sentence Patterns
• Coordination: Practices in Usage

Run-ons and Comma Splices

• Methods of Correcting Run-ons and Comma Splices with Practice
• /media/academic-success/ConjunctionsWithCommaRules.pdf

Spelling

• Spelling I
• Spelling II
• Spelling III: Practice
• Commonly Misspelled Words and Apostrophes

Subject-Verb Agreement

• Making Subjects, Verbs and Pronouns Agree
• Subject-Verb Agreement: Present Tense Practice

Verb Tenses

• Verb Tense Agreement Practice