Writing Help: Specific Types of Writing

Book reviews, article critiques, literature reviews, academic proposals, abstracts, comparative essays, admission letters, application letters, lab reports, and presentations.

Personal statements, scientific reports, discussion board postings, in-class essays, literature reviews, business genres, PowerPoint presentations, personal statements, and introductions and conclusions for humanities papers.

This guide includes resources and advice on a range of different types of writing, from engineering reports to writing about poetry. Categorized according to discipline.

A summary of different types of reflective writing, including examples.

Describes approaches to experiential and reading reflective inquiry.

A recommended process for crafting a discussion board post, including replying to others' posts.

A simple description of how to email your professor, including an example.

Explains some basic principles for emailing instructors.

Annotated sample grant proposals from undergraduate student researchers across the disciplines.

Learn the basics for planning and writing a grant proposal. Includes examples.

A USask workshop on comprehensive searching for your literature review.

Learn how to organize a thematic literature review using CARS (Create a Research Space) moves in this workshop.

Enter the due date for your literature review, and this guide will give you a series of dated steps toward completion.

A basic explanation of the general features of literature reviews in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

This guide demonstrates how to evaluate the form, function, and content of a literature review in a PhD thesis.

A handy table that walks you through the process of writing a literature review: questions, structure, and typical phrasing.

From the University of Calgary, elements of a critique and questions to consider.

From Queen's, a resource that walks through the process of composing a literature review.

Tips for writing blog posts from Syracuse University.

Tips for writing web-based content from Rutgers University.

A PowerPoint presentation from the Purdue Online Writing Lab outlining how to create emails destined for professors.