Student Information
Critical Thinking Guide
Cliches
Essay Structure
Expanding Your Essay: Topic Breakdown Method
Expanding Your Essay with Two Styles of Research
Literary Tools for Writing Literature Analyses
Essay Modes (narrative, definition, description, illustration, analysis, agrument)
Paragraphs for Literary Essays
Paragraphs, basic advice
Personal Research, introduction
Quotation and Paraphrase
Research for Literary essays
Sentence Editing
Thesis statements, general essays
Thesis statements, literature essays
Wordiness Lesson
Summary vs Analysis in Literature Essays
Research and the Essay
Sentences and Words
Paragraphs
Literary Essays
Structuring and Developing the Essay
The Main Point of the Essay
Useful Things
Critical Thinking
The Life of a Technical Writer
(only for the truly curious with
time on their hands)
An autobiography of a technical writer
My editing codes (also, a one-page writing manual)
Welcome to the student page.  Here you can find
handout materials I often use in class, and other
general advice that might be helpful.  Please let me
know how I can improve this page; tell me about other
materials that would be useful.  The files are saved to
RTF from  Microsoft Word (Windows) (let me know if
they do not open).
Technical Writing
Folklore Introduction for the Literature Student
Thesis statements: topic breakdown method
See also the link, "Thesis
statements: topic
breakdown method"
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Elements of a Successful Essay
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