Resource Pages

Your course instructors might ask you to write a paper and they will often require you to choose your own assignment topic. This Resource Page will show you effective strategies for selecting a topic.

You often need to do literature review assignments in your courses. This Resource Page will introduce you to literature reviews, their goals and different types.

This Resource Page will help you identify and write different types of paragraphs.

A paragraph is a series of related sentences developing a central idea. In this Resource Page, you will learn the main elements of a paragraph.

Paraphrasing is a fundamental skill in academic writing to express others’ ideas while maintaining originality and ensuring ethical writing practices. This Resource Page will help you understand what paraphrasing means and how to effectively paraphrase.

When writing an academic paper, you often need to refer to other people’s research to support your own arguments and ideas. This Resource Page will help you learn what citations, reference lists, and APA style are and how to use them.

Here you can find the complete list of all the student assignment samples as well as practical tools and examples that are hyperlinked as PDF, Word or Excel files across Resource Pages. 

Advice on Academic Writing is a website of resources with practical tips and strategies on academic writing created by UofT writing advisors.

Library Research Skills is a series of Quercus-based, self-paced learning modules that will help you improve your research skills and navigate the University of Toronto libraries. If you are not familiar with the library system or are not sure how to get started with research assignments, this is the right resource for you.