Humanities 110

Writing in Hum 110

Citing Sources

• Instructions on when, why, and how to cite sources.

Writing about Reading and Lecture Strategies

• Taking Lecture Notes
• Why take notes in lectures?
• Reading Critical Articles
• Critical Reading Strategies

Writing as a Process of Discovery

Download the handbook PDF

• Stage One: Close Reading
• Stage Two: You Need an Argument
• Stage Three: Selecting and Analyzing Evidence
• Introductions, Transitions, and Conclusions

Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

• Believing & Doubting (.pdf)
• Peer Review (.pdf)

Sample Papers from Hum 110

• "Order in the Garden" — Ara Pacis and Prima Porta (Math major)
• "The Parthenon Frieze and Oedipus Rex" (Biology major)

Online Support for Writing

• For resources to support effective writing, check out the Doyle O.W.L. (a Reed resource)

• The Purdue O.W.L. 

Person-to-person Support for Writing

• The Writing Center is a particularly valuable resource for Hum 110 students working on papers. You can get help with all stages of the writing process from peer tutors at the Writing Center; you can find links to the Writing Center session posted on the Drop-in Tutoring Schedule website. Extra tutoring help will be available in the weeks leading up to paper due dates.

Additional Resources

• Aristotle and Persuasion
• Aristotle & Logic: Syllogisms & Inductive Reasoning
• Other useful books:

  • John McPhee, Draft Number 4: On the Writing Process (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)

  • Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They say/I say: the Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (W.W. Norton, 2010), PE1431 .G73 2006