Humber faculty, staff, and students have created handouts on a variety of writing topics. Anyone may use them for educational purposes, but please leave all logos intact.

Academic Writing

• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast Essay
• Essays for Exams-Part 1-Brainstorming
• How to Start an Essay
• Literary Essays
• Modifiers
• Reading Terms and Definitions
• Reading Tips/Revising Your Essay
• Summaries
• Thesis Statement for College Paper
• Tips on Reading
• University Papers (Degree)
• Writing a Lede (Journalism)
• Writing a Psychology Paper

Research

• APA Reference List Examples
• APA Style
• Research Essays

For excellent resources related to APA, visit the Humber Library web page.

Business Communication

• Business Correspondance
• Business Letters-Practice Scenarios
• Business Reports
• Memos and Emails
• Memos and Emails-Practice Scenarios
• Presentations

Mechanics/Grammar

• Clauses
• Comma Exercises
• Commonly Confused Words-Part 2
• Connectors
• Finding Real Verbs-Part 1
• Finding Real Verbs-Part 2-Imposters
• Modals
• Modals-Exercises
• Phrases
• Sentence Fragments
• Subject-Verb Agreement-Part 1
• Subject-Verb Agreement-Part 2
• Subject-Verb Agreement-Part 3
• Subject-Verb Agreement Exercises
• Transitions
• The Apostrophe with Exercises
• The Colon
• The Comma
• The Semicolon
• Word Forms

Parts of Speech

• Adverbs
• Conjunctions
• Nouns
• Prepositions
• Pronouns
• Verbs

ESL

• Conditionals
• Real Conditions in the Present-Exercise 1
• Unreal Conditions in the Present-Exercise 2
• Unreal Conditions in the Past-Exercise 3
• Word Forms-Exercises

Writing Centre's PDF Guides to Effective Writing

• Writing Centre's Guide to Writing a Critical Response
• Writing Centre's Guide to Summary Writing
• Writing Centre's Guide to Persuasive Writing
• Writing Centre's Guide to Thesis Development
• Writing Centre's Guide to Commonly Confused Words
• Writing Centre's Guide to Punctuation
• Writing Centre's Guide to Apostrophe Use
• Writing Centre's Guide to Comma Use
• Writing Centre's Guide to Subject & Verb Agreement
• Writing Centre's Guide to Paragraph Structure
• Writing Centre's Guide to Sentence Structure

Writing Centre & Grammar Websites

• The Purdue Writing Lab (OWL)
• Assignment Calculator
• The University of New Brunswick Annotated Bibliography Template
• The University of Adelaide
• WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship

Academic Integrity Websites

• Academic Integrity Tutorial (University of Guelph)
• You Quote It, You Note It: An Interactive Plagiarism Tutorial
• Copyright & Plagiarism for Students

Humber Policies

• Humber Academic Regulations