Resources for teachers

This focuses on the definition and consequences of plagiarism. Students are taught the skills needed to avoid plagiarism, such as how to paraphrase, quote and properly reference their sources. There are exercises designed to have them practice all of these skills. It is available for APA and for MLA documentation.

This session walks students through the process of writing annotation and has them create their own annotation.

This workshop looks at what procrastination is and some methods of addressing the problem. It also looks at time management and some tools that can be used for managing one’s time and to help with procrastination.

This workshop discusses some of the ways that the brain learns and stores information. The workshop demonstrates how short term and long term memory works and presents students with different studying techniques using interactive activities.

This shows students a step-by-step approach to writing a college-level essay. It can include discussion and exercises on creating topics, writing effective thesis statements, proper paragraph structure, essay-outlining and essay structure. It can focus on different essay types or different elements in the academic essay.

This shows students a step-by-step approach to writing a summary for a college-level academic article. It guides students through the reasons why summary writing is important and a breakdown of the process. It can also include an activity at the end that has them practice the steps with a short article.

These workshops help introduce students to the concept of literary analysis. Students learn about several literary techniques and how to analyze them to understand a piece of literature.

This workshop discusses how to prepare and give an oral presentation. It can also include information on creating a PowerPoint presentation.

This workshop discusses different methods for taking notes in class and while reading, including concept maps and the Cornell Method. It also has students practice with these different methods.

This workshop introduces students to the concept of active reading, as well as having them practice techniques of active reading.

This interactive workshop is designed to show students different methods of brainstorming for coming up with topics or ideas and have them experiment with them at the same time.

Students will learn the value in setting goals and will be walked through the process of setting their own S.M.A.R.T. goal.

This workshop offers students straightforward and easy-to-apply strategies for correcting common sentence problems such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices. Students will learn key punctuation and grammar usage rules by revisiting the basics of sentence structure.