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?
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Pact for Speaking: What can you do well?
- PACT for Scientific Writing (5-min video for an overview of features distinct to scientific writing)
- Brainstorming Strategies Infographic
- PACT for Purpose
- PACT for Audience
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PACT for Conventions
- PACT for Trouble-Spots
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PACT Rubric for Poster Sessions
- PACT and the Known-New Strategy for Paragraph Cohesion
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PACT and Professional Etiquette--a Thank You Note Template
- PACT for Peer Review
- PACT_Presentation_Feedback
- PACT for Organization
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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