The following are handouts that accompanies many of our most popular WMC Workshops. WMC citation handouts are located on the Citation Resouces Page.
Writing Workshop Handouts
: This handout provides a brief description of the annotated bibliography and the basic components that annotated bibliographies cover--argument/summary, methodology, value, and evaluation.
: This handout describes how to create an visual idea map and includes an exercise.
(general): This handout provides an overview of the writing process and helps students plan/manage their writing goals for a semester.
: This handout provides a basic introduction to plagiarism and best practices.
: This handout covers incomplete sentences, misplaced modifiers, parallelism, subject-verb agreement.
: This handout is a general guide to writing an introduction for a college-level academic paper.
: This handout gives a general introduction to the literature review essay or the literature review section.
Thesis structure/Logic Types: This handout provides examples of some major logical structures of theses such as the anatomy thesis, chronology thesis, spectrum thesis, cause/effect thesis, and comparison thesis. These thesis types can also provide structure of the paper.
: This handout with exercises includes two steps to narrowing a broad topic: 1) exploring what matters or idea mapping, and 2) specifying the area of research.
:聽 This handout identifies five parts to developing strong research questions.
: This handout introduces students to the genre of writing the personal statement (for graduate school or for grants/applications).
Research Statement: This handout introduces students to the genre of writing the research statement (for graduate school applications).
Multiliteracy Workshop Handouts
: This handout gives an introduction to the how to effective present an oral presentation using slideshow.
: Basic tips for presenting as a group.
. This handout was part of a workshop that reviews the components of an infographic and how to consider different ways of displaying data.
: This handout covers how to think about and approach research poster design and pitch.
: This handout is useful for students who are creating a narrative video. WMC explains why students should storyboard and how to map out the "story" before filming .