Handouts
Writing/English Handouts
The following handouts were created by the LAVC Writing/English Tutoring Staff and are available for all educational purposes (classroom instruction, tutoring, web links, etc.) as long as source information is given. All handouts are Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance.
Note to Students: Handouts should be used as a quick guide and should never take the place of assignment guidelines or instructor directions and/or preferences.
- Active Voice Vs. Passive Voice
- Adjective and Adverbs
- Apostrophes
- Articles
- Capitalization
- Clauses I: Independent/Dependent
- Clauses II: Types of clauses
- Clauses III: Restrictive/Non Restrictive
- Comma
- Common Pitfalls Among College Students
- Denotation and Connotation of a word
- Fragments I: Simple Fragments
- Fragments II: Complex Fragments
- Gerunds and Infinitives
- Idioms
- Improving Your Vocabulary
- Modifiers
- Parallelism
- Parts of Speech
- Prepositions
- Proofreading
- Pronoun Agreement
- Punctuation
- Run-on Sentences
- Semicolon
- Sentence Patterns
- Spelling
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Verb Tenses
- Verbs with -ed Ending
- Verbs The Basics
- Annotated Bibliography
- APA Format (Sample included)
- ASA Format
- Chicago Format 17th Edition
- Choosing a Research Topic
- How to Use a Reference Book
- Integrating Quotes
- In-Text Citations
- LAVC Library MLA Resource
- MLA Format 9th Edition
- MLA Format for Mac
- Plagiarism
- Research Using the LAVC Library Databases