WCC Resources

Our resources cover a range of topics related to writing and communication across various disciplines, audiences, and situations.

Academic Writing Foundations

Resources in the Academic Writing Foundations series support first-year students and those developing fundamental writing skills.

Reading Your Syllabus for Success

Pro Tips on Note-Taking

A Beginner's Guide to Writing Concisely

Grammar Tips for Common Mistakes

Getting Instructor Feedback

Genres and Modes of Communication

Academic Blog Posts

Annotated Bibliographies

Critical Reflection

Critical Analysis and Evaluation

Writing Professional Emails in the Workplace

Writing Exam Essays

Reading and Listening Critically

Telling a Story in Academic Writing

Starting Your Assignment

Develop and Narrow a Topic

Develop a Research Question

How to Think: Moving From Research to Writing

Two ways to create an outline: graphic and linear

Understand Your Assignment

Writing a First Draft

Organization

Building Strong Body Paragraphs

Creating a Research Space: CaRS Model

Comparative Essays

Integrating Evidence Effectively

Thesis Statements

Transition Words and Phrases

Style

Active and Passive Voice

Writing Concisely

Mechanics

Making Sense of Articles

Making Sense of Colons

Making Sense of Commas

Making Sense of Semicolons

Gerunds and Infinitives

Managing Modals

Managing Modifiers

Restrictive and Non-restrictive Clauses (Which vs. That)

Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices

Sentence Fragments

Subject-Verb Agreement

Citations

Chicago (Author/Date Style)

Chicago (Footnotes and Endnotes)

Reporting Verbs

Citing a Source More Than Once

Integrating Evidence Effectively: Author-Prominent and Information-Prominent

Polishing Your Work

Peer Review: Theory and Practice

Peer Review Marking - Fillable Form

Proofreading Strategies

Reverse Outline

Résumé Checklist

Writing Checklist

Using ChatGPT and other Text-Generating Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

1. Overview

2. AI and the Writing Process

2a. Getting Started

2c. Revising and editing

2d. Documenting and Citing

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