The following are handouts that accompanies many of our most popular WMC Workshops. WMC citation handouts are located on the Citation Resources Page.
Writing Workshop Handouts
Annotated Bibliography: This handout provides a brief description of the annotated bibliography and the
basic components that annotated bibliographies cover--argument/summary, methodology,
value, and evaluation.
Idea Mapping: This handout describes how to create an visual idea map and includes an exercise.
Writing Process (general): This handout provides an overview of the writing process and helps students plan/manage their writing goals for a semester.
Plagiarism: This handout provides a basic introduction to plagiarism and best practices.
Grammar Guide: This handout covers incomplete sentences, misplaced modifiers, parallelism, subject-verb agreement.
Writing the Introduction: This handout is a general guide to writing an introduction for a college-level academic paper.
Literature Review: 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.
Narrowing Your Topic (Two Steps): 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.
Research Question (Infographic): This handout identifies five parts to developing strong research questions.
Personal Statement: 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
Basics for Oral Slideshow Presentation: This handout gives an introduction to the how to effective present an oral presentation using slideshow.
Group Presentation Tips: Basic tips for presenting as a group.
How to Make a YouTube Account to Upload Video
Infographics: Parts, Purposes, and Layout. This handout was part of a workshop that reviews the components of an infographic and how to consider different ways of displaying data.
Research Poster and Pitch: This handout covers how to think about and approach research poster design and pitch.
Storyboarding: 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 .
STEM Handouts
Research Poster and Pitch: This handout covers how to think about and approach research poster design and pitch.
Idea Mapping: This handout describes how to create a visual idea map and includes an exercise.