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Interpreting Key Terms in Writing Assignments
Not sure what your Professor means in paper prompt when s/he writes that you should thoroughly “discuss” the topic? Wondering what “analyze” means? Check out this great glossary of academic terms.
Author: Eric Drown
Q-C-Q (Quotation-Comment-Question)
Here’s a great prewriting strategy to help you dig into your sources, generate ideas, and make connections. Q-C-Q
Assess Your Fluency in College Level Study Skills
Find out if you have college level study skills, or whether you might need to make some changes in the way you approach learning. Click here to take the University of Central Florida’s Study Skills Inventory If your results suggest you have some work to do to improve your study skills, visit Tutortrac to schedule Read More …
Use the Paramedic Method to Make Sentences Clear and Direct
Novice academic writers often try to make their writing sound more sophisticated or professional by emulating the complex prose they’re reading. But like all novices, they make mistakes and can produce sentences that are very difficult to read and understand. Here’s one: Through this reading, and stating what I learned from the reading Success, Victims, and Read More …
What Have You Learned in College Reading and Writing I and II?
As I look back over this year, I’m amazed at the list of reading and writing strategies students have practiced. Here it is: Writing Process: Prewriting strategies Drafting strategies: idea-generating drafts, architectural outlines, reverse outlining, slideshow/Pecha Kucha drafting Revision strategies (global) Editing strategies (local) Proofreading strategies Remediation strategies Introduction strategies Conclusion strategies / more conclusion Read More …
Proofread for Stigmatizing Sentence-Level Errors
When you proofread, read your writing aloud, backwards – from the last sentence of the last paragraph to the first sentence of the first paragraph. This disrupts your mind’s desire to attend to the meaning of your words and allows you to focus on the correctness of your language. Pay most attention to stigmatizing errors, Read More …
How to Cite Rising Cairn in Your Works Cited
Use the MLA “online magazine” source type format. The publisher is: The University of New England English Department
The Matthew Effect
In “The Matthew Effect” chapter of Outliers, journalist Malcolm Gladwell argues that success is not always a function of exceptional individual talent or effort. Instead, he reveals, external factors beyond the control of individuals contribute to success. While Gladwell uses junior hockey to illustrate his argument, he is making a broader argument about success in order Read More …
How to Get the Most Out of Studying
There are some great videos here on the implications of brain science for studying. Here’s the first in the series. Find links to the rest of the series here.
