This section contains resources for getting started on your writing and revising your writing over time for effective organization, flow, transitions, and editing and proofreading.

Materials designed by Christopher Basgier, Jordan Beckum, Katharine Brown, Amy Cicchino, Souji Gopalakrishna Pillai, and James Truman

This worksheet helps you apply reading like a writer to your work by inviting you to examine written artifacts from a writerly perspective by paying attention to features like structure, key terms, signposting, and verb use

• Reading Like a Writer Worksheet Word Document

• Reading Like a Writer Worksheet PDF

This handout offers strategies and techniques for generating and organizing writing ideas

• Strategies for Generating and Organizing Ideas Handout Word Document

• Strategies for Generating and Organizing Ideas Handout PDF

This handout breaks down the writing concept of “flow” at the whole text, paragraph, and sentence level

• Organization and Flow Handout and Worksheet Word Document

• Organization and Flow Handout and Worksheet PDF

This handout provides an overview of strategies that different writers have found helpful as they make global changes to their writing

• Strategies to Edit Your Writing Handout and Worksheet Word Document

• Strategies to Edit Your Writing Handout and Worksheet PDF

This handout provides an overview of useful strategies for making global revisions to a manuscript and an action plan

• Strategies to Revise Your Writing Word Document 

• Strategies to Revise Your Writing PDF 

This handout invites readers to compare an excerpt from a dissertation to an excerpt of the same material, rewritten for nonspecialist or "general" audiences

• Academic and General Audience Comparison Word Document

• Academic and General Audience Comparison PDF

This worksheet invites writers to plan a piece of writing for a general audience by leading them through the elements of the rhetorical situation.

• Plan for General Audiences Word Document

• Plan for General Audiences PDF

This handout provides an easy reference list of common transitional words and phrases

• Transitional Words and Phrases Handout Word Document

• Transitional Words and Phrases Handout PDF

This handout explains the difference between proofing and revision processes

• Proofreading Your Own Writing Handout Word Document

• Proofreading Your Own Writing Handout PDF

This worksheet will help you apply the paramedic method of editing to improve sentence-level clarity

• Revision for Concision Practice Worksheet Word Document

• Revision for Concision Practice Worksheet PDF

This worksheet lets you practice applying editing and proofreading strategies to sample text through two activities

• Editing and Proofreading Practice Worksheet Word Document

• Editing and Proofreading Practice Worksheet PDF

This handout suggests ways in which writers can practice critical thinking while using generative artificial intelligence

• Practicing Critical Thinking with Generative AI Word Document

• Practicing Critical Thinking with Generative AI PDF

This worksheet invites users to plan the elements of a successful prompt for generative artificial intelligence

• Writing Prompts for Generative AI Word Document

• Writing Prompts for Generative AI PDF

This worksheet allows you to consider how you will communicate your research in conference presentations and journal articles

• Journal Article Writing Process Worksheet Word Document

• Journal Article Writing Process Worksheet PDF

This worksheet offers open-ended questions to identify ways to transform a conference presentation into a journal article. By using these questions, one can develop an editing plan and structure for the article

• Making an Editing Plan Word Document

• Making an Editing Plan PDF