Academic Success Center Writing Handouts

Each handout below is printer-friendly. For additional help, tutoring is available at each campuses Academic Success Center. 

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