English Department Resources 

Anyone may use the handouts below for educational purposes. If not an IVCC faculty member, please give credit to the IVCC English Department.

All Handouts

Click on this shared folder to access the full plethora of handouts concerning writing (including MLA style-specific resources and those for general essay writing concerns). Most are broken out below with specific file names.

Writing with Sources General Resources

• Annotated Bibliography

• Citing Sources--General Tips for All Styles

• Introducing Quotations

• Citation Help at Jacobs Library: NoodleTools. NoodleTools is a reliable citation generator and online source management tool.

MLA Style-Specific Resources

• Citing Literary Works

• In-text Citations

• Works Cited Core Elements

• Works Cited Entries

• Works Cited Format

General Essay Writing Resources 

• Body Paragraph Structure

• Formatting an Essay in Word

• Formatting Titles

• Quick Tips for Essay Writing

• Sample Memo

• Sample Outline

• Writing a Thesis Statement

• Writing Introductions

• Writing Conclusions

• Writing Essay Exams and Short Answer Questions

• Writing an Essay Title

• Writing a Literary Analysis

Grammar, Mechanics, Style, and Other Sentence-Level Resources

• Active and Passive Voice

• Apostrophes

• Avoiding First and Second Person

• Clichés

• Combining Sentences

• Commas

• Eliminating Problematic Language 

• Fixing Fragments

• Fixing Run-ons

• Parallelism

• Pronoun Agreement

• Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, and Parenthesis

• Sentence Variety

• Transitions

Link to 2016 IVCC Stylebook

Please note the Stylebook has not been updated since publication in 2016. Changes may have occurred to its guidelines. Always consult your field's most updated resources, such as the 2021 Update to the MLA Handbook.

IVCC Stylebook 2016
Full URL: https://ivccwritingcenter.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/stylebook-1.pdf