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Writing Center Handouts

  • APA Style Rules and Tips
  • EndNote Essentials for the Social Sciences
  • Writing Terms - (e.g. Summary, Critique, Quotation, Paraphrase, and Plagiarism)
  • Avoiding Plagiarism
  • Writing Summaries
  • Effective Paraphrasing
  • Taking Control Over an Assignment
  • Suggestions for the Writing Process
  • Preparing for a Literature Review
  • Critical Thinking
  • Writing Research Papers
  • Revising a Paper
  • Social Policy Glossary
  • Human Services Acronyms
  • Techniques for Dealing with Writer's Block
  • Transitional Words and Expressions
  • Review of the Comma
  • Review of the Semicolon and Colon
  • Review of the Dash
  • That and Which in Restrictive and Non-restrictive Clauses
  • Articles: a, an, the
  • The Writing Center: 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 530, New York, NY 10027   |   (212) 851-2232   |   swwrite@columbia.edu