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Handouts These handouts were developed by Writing Center tutors to help students with common writing problems and questions. Feel free to print them out, but please give us credit if you use them for more than just personal use! Prewriting Outlining for an Essay (download .doc version) Composing a paper Examples of Introduction Paragraphs (download .doc version) Integrating Quotes into Your Essay (download .doc version) How do I write a thesis statement? (download .doc version) Revising a paper Revision Strategies (download .doc version) Avoiding Wordiness (download .doc version) Grammar issues Punchy Punctuation: Colons vs. Semicolons (download .doc version) Using Commas Correctly (download .doc version) Articles: "A" vs. "The" and other issues (download .doc version) Count vs. Noncount Nouns (download .doc version) Plagiarism & Citing Sources Formatting Titles: Underlining, Italicizing, and Quotation Marks (download .doc version)