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I've started to put handouts in this section when I have them in easily printable form.

This is a guide for students about writing college essays with the assistance of ChatGPT (or other LLMs), including warnings about the academic dishonesty that those programs generate routinely:

• ChatGPT (and Its Relatives) and College Writing: A Quick Guide for Students (PDF)

Here is a sequence of handouts meant to guide students through the process of reading and writing analytically:

• Getting from Topic to Thesis (PDF)
• Reading For a Thesis (PDF, translates Getting from Topic to Thesis into an algorithm)
• Five Ways of Looking at a Thesis (PDF)

These handouts relate to information literacy and undergraduate research:

• Bibliography assignment for the first-year Tutorial (PDF)
• Library Research Guide for Secondary Sources (PDF)
• Quick Guide to Chicago NB Style (PDF)

And here are some other handouts that I use for teaching analytical reading and writing:

• On Transitions (PDF)
• Close Reading, Formalism, and New Criticism (PDF)
• Punctuation Patterns (PDF, adapted from a handout by Deborah Simpson--thanks, Mom!)

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Erik Simpson | simpsone@grinnell.edu