Determined to stay on track when life gets busy? We'll introduce you to helpful concepts, strategies, and tools to maintain your motivation and strive for better work-life balance.

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

Boost your test-taking confidence by optimizing your preparation, increasing your focus and efficiency during the test, and reflecting on your test experience and results to propel you forward the next time.

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 how to use concept summaries as math studying tools..

Wondering what all the fuss is about when it comes to academic journal articles, or how you can read them more efficiently? We’ll discuss what scholarly journal articles are, how they’re organized, and what to prioritize when reading them, which will help you save time and avoid common (mis)reading pitfalls. 

Do you find yourself reading a journal article and skipping over the sections with data and statistics? In this workshop, we will discuss the foundational concept of hypothesis testing and other common statistical vocabulary. We’ll then explore strategies to help you engage with journal articles containing quantitative content and empower you to begin thinking critically about statistical evidence.

Note: “Reading Scholarly Journal Articles” provides a helpful foundation for this workshop.

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 understand the purpose of various assignment types and their corresponding thesis statements, think about the audience and their needs, and consider how university writing genres function.

It’s tempting to rush the planning stage, but making time for a few key steps can improve the quality of your paper. Learn how to get started on your assignment, use brainstorming to direct your research, and leverage outlining to shape your ideas and grow your draft.

Want to ensure your writing is focused and powerful? In this workshop, we’ll consider some “dos and don’ts” of thesis statements, identify the components of strong body paragraphs, and discuss how to effectively integrate information from sources to support your ideas.

Note: We recommend completing the "Planning Research Papers" workshop first.

All academic writers strive to create texts that flow smoothly. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use reverse outlining to improve the logical flow of your ideas, and you’ll discover how different types of connectors contribute to smooth writing.

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

Learn to spot and fix common grammatical errors (i.e., comma splices, fragments, and run-on sentences), and discover strategies to help you become a more confident editor of your own writing.

Working with others is encouraged in many MRU classes, but it is important to understand which types of collaboration are acceptable and which may constitute academic misconduct. We’ll discuss a few tricky scenarios, explore the grey areas between collaboration and collusion, and suggest ways to become confident about expectations for assignments and tests.

APA style for referencing is used by many disciplines as a way to credit others’ work. In this workshop, 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

Want to take your APA referencing skills to the next level? Embark on an adventure that will take you to the depths of the sea and the limits of space as you work together in small groups to solve common referencing challenges in APA Style. This webinar is highly collaborative and interactive, and participants will be expected to participate in group work.

Note: Knowledge from “APA: An Introduction” is needed to participate in this webinar.

MLA citation style is the most commonly used format in the Humanities (e.g., English) to provide credit for others’ work. This workshop will help with the basics as outlined in MLA’s 9th edition, from the creation of in-text citations to the development of your Works Cited page.

MLA Referencing Guide