Two new handouts on the Writing Studio’s handouts page: “Topic Sentence” and “Structure of an Analytical Paragraph”
We’re excited to share news of several recent updates and additions to the Writing Studio’s Handouts page.
What’s New?: Writing Studio Handouts page
Two New Handouts: “Topic Sentences” and “Structure of an Analytical Paragraph”
First, we have added two new handouts created by Paige Elliott (’24), as her Immersion project during her time as an Undergraduate Writing Consultant. Both are available to view or download as a PDF from the Handouts page in the new “Common Essay Elements” section:
Both handouts cover topics Paige found she frequently discussed during her writing consultation sessions, and each handout offer clear advice grounded in reference to carefully selected examples.
A New Look and New Organization
In addition to the new handouts, we have also given the organization of the Handouts page a refresh. As visitors to the page will see, all of our handouts are now organized into a new set of categories and subcategories intended to help make it easier to navigate our handouts collection.
Here’s a preview of the new categories (and some of their subcategories), each of which can be reached directly via the following links:
- Writing Process Perspectives
- Academic Essay Conventions and Expectations
- Common Essay Elements
- Common Academic Writing Expectations
- Incorporating and Engaging Sources
- Specific Genres and Assignments
- Word & Sentence Level
- Select Vanderbilt Library Resources
New Links to Career Center and Library Resources
We know that many of our campus partners have valuable online resources, too, and our handouts page now includes new links to several related to questions writers bring up frequently during writing consultations:
- Career Center resources: Resumes and CVs and Picture Your Career (guidebook with dozens of interactive exercises that can benefit those working on application essays)
- Vanderbilt Library resources: In addition to the APA Style resources we have long linked to, we now have links to the Library Research Guides and the Library’s guide to Citation Management software.