Resources

How to identify and correct dangling and misplaced modifiers.

Learn how to change passive voice sentences into active voice. This handout also explains when to use active or passive voice.

Learn how to make pronouns agree with antecedents in person and number. This handout also covers common pronoun point of view errors and how to correct them.

Learn how to make indefinite pronouns agree with their antecedents.

Learn how to make subjects and verbs agree.

While it may be acceptable in friendly e-mails and chat rooms, a major pitfall that has been bringing down the quality of formal, written text is the use of excessive colloquialism. Here are some steps/tips you can follow to help your overall writing.

Learn how to reduce wordiness in your writing for precision and clarity.

This handout summarizes the differences between first, second, and third person point of view.

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Each homophone has a unique function within a sentence; using the wrong one can change the meaning of the sentence, or make it nonsensical. What’s more, spell-check won’t always detect an incorrectly used homophone, so it is important to have a reliable method to select the right homophone within a sentence. This handout covers common homophones such as there/their/they're.

Then vs. Than; Accept vs. Except. Learn which to use so that your sentences are clear.

This handout defines dependent and independent clauses and explores how they are treated in standard usage.
Common errors to avoid: comma splices, fused sentences, and fragments.

How to identify and correct fragments in your writing.

Run-ons are sentences packed with too many ideas; the writer is “running on” from one idea to the next without punctuating correctly, so the reader doesn’t know how one idea relates to the next. Check out this guide to learn about the several ways to identify and correct run-ons.

Learn how to make phrases/clauses/sentences parallel to improve readability.