WRAC Online

Welcome to WRAC ONLINE!

The WRAC Center Online offers free instructional resources to help with your reading and writing assignments.

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from on-campus and off, WRAC ONLINE offers handouts you can print out or view online.

Essay Writing – Types of Essays and Student Samples

The essays included here have been selected by Chabot instructors as models of good writing in various genres. Included is instructor feedback on each assignment.

IMPORTANT: These essays are writing models only. The language and ideas belong to the original writers and may not be copied.

Handouts

For Reading
• Effective Reading
• Active Reading

For Writing
• Steps in the Writing Process
• The Shape of an Essay
• Conclusions
• Developing Introductions
• Useful Transitions
• Using Quotes
• Micro-Outline Worksheet
• Making Your Paper Longer
• P.I.E. Paragraphs
• Writing a Thesis Statement
• The Thesis
• Tips for handling in-class essays
• Writing Short Responses
• Steps in Writing a Summary

For Grammar and Mechanics
• Proofreading Tips

For Style Guides
• MLA Style
• APA Style
• Library-Works Cited

Additional Online Resources

For Reading
• Critical Reading: 7 Steps
• Overview of Reading Strategies – previewing, annotating, summarizing, analyzing etc.
• Finding the author’s thesis and evaluating evidence
• Understanding facts v. interpretation, analysis, and making inferences

For Writing
• Techniques for Writing
• Literacy Education Online
• Hypertext Writer’s Guide
• Language Tools
• Citing Non-traditional Sources
• Student Hacks

For Grammar
• Fixing Common Errors
• Grammar Index
• Punctuation Made Simple
• Grammar Checklist