Writing Aids

This page contains numerous links to helpful writing resources. All files open in a new window.  If there is any other information that you would like to see available on this page, please email us at graduatewriting@liberty.edu with your suggestions.

The Director asks that you get permission before altering these resources.

Formatting Quick Guides

• APA Quick Guide
• MLA Quick Guide
• Turabian Quick Guide (7th edition)
• Turabian 8th Edition Changes
• AMA Quick Guide

PowerPoint Presentations

These presentations, created by the Director of the Graduate Writing Center and the Graduate Writing Center staff, have been presented in student and faculty workshops across Liberty's campus.  Feel free to download and use them for your personal reference or as teaching aids in your classrooms. 

Presentations for Faculty

• Common Punctuation Errors PowerPoint and Handout - A summary of common punctuation errors
• Constructing Successful Writing Assignments - How to write assignments that yield good results
• Editing for Word Choice
• Evaluating Student Writing - How to comment effectively on drafts and final papers
• Feedback for Written Communication Assignments
• Helping Korean Students - Why Korean students keep quiet in class
• MLA Refresher Course - A workshop offered in 2007 by Drs. James Nutter and Emily Heady
• Plagiarism - How to prevent, catch, and punish it
• Teaching ESL Students

Presentations for Students

• Academic Code of Honor - Includes a thorough explanation of Liberty's Academic Code of Honor; addresses how to write with integrity and avoid incurring penalties for breaching the code
• APA PowerPoint and Handout - A basic guide to formatting
• *UPDATED TO REFLECT 6TH EDITION CHANGES 
• Apostrophes
• Apostrophes 2
• Articles
• Capitalization
• Colons
• Commas
• Common Grammar Errors PowerPoint and Handout - An overview of the errors students make most commonly; includes a handout for students
• Commonly Misused Words
• Conjunctions
• Formatting Turabian Footnotes & Endnotes
• Forming Plurals
• Fundamentals of Graduate Student Writing - This presentation is geared toward Counseling Students, but may be adapted to fit other disciplines
• Microsoft Word - Tips and tricks, including pagination, headers, spacing, and more
• Misplaced Modifiers
• MLA PowerPoint and Handout - A basic guide to formatting
  *UPDATED TO REFLECT 7TH EDITION CHANGES
• Organizing a Paper
• Outlining a Research Paper
• Paragraph Construction
• Passive Voice
• Prepositions
• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
• Proper Comma Usage
• Sample Annotated Bibliography of Annotated Bibliography Resources
• Semicolons
• Sentence Construction
• Sentence Fragments
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Run-On Sentences
• Turabian Footnotes and Endnotes (7th edition)
• Turabian Footnotes and Endnotes (8th edition)
• Turabian Presentation Revised (7th edition)
• Turabian Presentation Revised (8th edition)
• Verb Tenses
• Wordiness

Worksheets

These worksheets, created by Graduate Writing Center tutors, are designed to teach the basics of grammar and punctuation.  They contain explanations, examples, and practice activities.  Feel free to download and use them for your personal reference and practice. 

Grammar

• Articles
• Articles 2
• Articles - Definite
• Articles - Definite and Indefinite
• Articles - Definite Article Exceptions
• Articles - Indefinite
• Capitalization
• Capitalization 2
• Commonly Misused Words
• Conjunctions
• Conjunctions 2
• Fragments
• Modifiers (Dangling)
• Passive Voice
• Passive Voice 2
• Plurals
• Plurals 2
• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
• Prepositions
• Prepositions - To and For
• Run-on Sentences
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Subject-Verb Agreement 2
• Transitions
• Verb Tenses
• Verb Tenses 2
• Verb Tenses - Sequencing
• Wordiness
• Wordiness 2
• Wordiness 3 - Writing Concisely

Format Style

• AMA Style Guide
• AMA Formatting Quick Guide
• APA Formatting Videos
• APA Sample Paper
• Formatting for Kindle EBooks
• Sample Turabian Paper - Parenthetical Style
• Turabian Annotated Bibliography
• Turabian Cover Page
• Turabian Five Level Heading
• Turabian Formatting Guide  (7th edition)
• Turabian Basics (8th edition)
• Turabian Sample Paper
• Turabian Table of Contents
• Turabian Footnote & Bibliography Basics (7th edition)
• Turabian Footnotes and Bibliography (8th edition)
• Turabian Author-Date Style (8th edition)

Punctuation

• Apostrophes
• Apostrophes 2
• Colon
• Colon 2
• Colon 3
• Commas
• Comma Usage - Introduction
• Comma Usage - Complexity
• Comma Usage - Series
• Semicolon

Other Resources

• Critical Thinking 1
• Evaluating Internet Sources
• Literature Review
• Spelling-check Unreliability
• What is a Thesis Statement?
• How to Research a Thesis Statement
• Where to place a Thesis Statement
• Thesis Statements for Book Reviews
• Thesis Statements for Case Studies
• Thesis Statements for Discussion Posts
• Thesis Statements for Research Papers
• Writing an Abstract 
• Writing with Deductive Strategy
• Writing with Inductive Strategy
• Writing Rubric