handouts

Getting Started

• PACT: the four key questions
• Using PACT: A framework for writing, speaking, and thinking.  This 5-minute video (created by Biology Professor Dana Huebert Lima for the WVU Honors College) includes examples and activities.
• Applying PACT to Understand Assignments. Watch this brief (3 minute) video created by a WVU Writing Studio Consultant.
• PACT for Critical Reading
• PACT for Writing: What can you do well?
• Pact for Speaking: What can you do well?
  
• PACT for Scientific Writing (5-min video for an overview of features distinct to scientific writing)

• PACT for Purpose
• PACT for Audience
• PACT for Conventions
  
• PACT for Trouble-Spots
• PACT Rubric for Poster Sessions
  
• PACT and the Known-New Strategy for Paragraph Cohesion
• PACT and Professional Etiquette--a Thank You Note Template
  

• PACT for Peer Review
• PACT_Presentation_Feedback
• PACT for Organization
• How to Create a Revision Plan Handout
  
• Revision Plans: Managing Feedback as a Student Writer Video
• Question-Based Feedback to Encourage Student Revision 

Editing

• Finding and Fixing Errors. Nationwide research by Andrea A. Lunsford and Karen Lunsford identifies trouble spots for many writers.  This handout offers a few strategies to help writers fix some of their own errors. 
• How to Proofread   
• How to Track Patterns of Errors