Determined to stay on track when life gets busy? We'll introduce you to helpful concepts, strategies and tools to maintain your motivation and improve your time management. 

Maximize your study potential! We’ll discuss how the key strategies of retrieval practice, spaced repetition and interleaving will help make your learning stick.

Many students believe that online tests are easier than in-person tests. In this workshop, we’ll bust this myth and discuss other “need-to-knows” to help you feel more confident in preparing for quizzes, tests and exams.

University courses feature a much larger array of writing assignments than high school classes. We’ll discuss how to better understand university writing, covering how to effectively approach various assignment types, different kinds of thesis statements, and the major moves in an effective introduction.

Students sometimes rush the planning stage, but making time for a few key steps can improve the quality of your paper. Learn how to expand and organize your ideas to provide direction for your research, and apply some "dos and don'ts" to draft strong thesis statements.

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Paraphrasing is an essential skill for any academic writer. We will discuss when to quote and when to paraphrase, differentiate between paraphrasing and patchwriting, and highlight the importance of fairly representing the work of others.

An excellent paper should be concise and easy to follow. In this webinar, learn how to avoid wordiness and make your writing clear and direct.

Note: Anyone may register for this webinar, but if you are pairing this webinar with Editing Sentence Structure, we recommend completing Editing Sentence Structure first.

In this webinar, participants will learn to spot and fix common grammatical errors such as comma splices, fragments, and run-on sentences, and will discover strategies to help them become better editors of their own writing assignments.

APA style for referencing is used by many disciplines as a way to credit others’ work. In this webinar, we’ll help you grasp the basics of the rules outlined in APA’s 7th edition. We will practice citing sources in text and building accurate reference list entries.

APA Referencing Guide

MLA citation style is the most commonly used format in the humanities for providing credit to sources. This webinar will help with MLA's basics, from the creation of in-text citations to the development of a works cited page.

MLA Referencing Guide

Identify expectations for courses requiring math, and establish a solid study plan based on effective learning strategies to work towards those expectations. We’ll discuss and practice how to use concept summaries and annotation as math studying tools. 

Scholarly journal articles are essential sources for many research assignments. Understanding what they are and how they are organized can save you time. We’ll discuss how crucial it is to identify your specific purpose for reading a journal article since that will influence how you read it. 

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