OWRC Handouts

This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn’t fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there.

Grammar is more than just a set of rules. It is the ever -evolving structure of our language, a field which merits study, invites analysis, and promises fascination. Find out about common errors and correcting yourself.

Research and the use of different kinds of evidence and texts are important skills and necessary strategies in writing, developing an argument, and participating in academic discourse. In other words, the work you engage in and produce at the university will require you to read about, think about, write about, organize, synthesize, and deploy other people’s ideas, words, concepts, studies, data, and expertise.

Once you’ve decided that a quote should be included in your writing, follow the “three-step” rule to integrate it into your paper.

Good reading makes good writing, time management, importance of spelling, reading your writing aloud and more.