Handouts for Students

• Writing a college humanities paper, whether you're transitioning from high-school writing to college writing or entering a college humanities class for the first time

  • (A condensed 2-page version of the handout above)

• A close-reading toolbox, with an overview of the goals of close-reading and some tricks for getting started

• A structural-reading toolbox, for analyzing the features of a whole narrative

• Introductions and Conclusions: how to make them count

• Thesis statements: a three-tiered test to make bolder, better arguments

• From skeletal to full-bodied Outlines

• A worksheet for putting together the pieces of a Prospectus

• The argument-reconstruction process, for new philosophy students

• Tips for Advanced Writers: on nominalizations, transitions, mixed metaphors, and pre-empting objections... take your writing to the next level!

  
  

  All of these handouts are works-in-progress. I welcome suggestions from students or other teachers!

Some drawings from the handouts above…