Activities and Tools for SAS 011

Reading

• How to Have Focused Reading Sessions in 75-90 Minutes
• Strategies for Previewing a Reading
• What to Do While You’re Reading
• Chunking a Reading
• Supercharge Your Academic Reading By Focusing on Concepts
• Notice Pivotal Words to Understand How Sentences and Paragraphs Connect
• Marking Up Texts
• Make an Idea Map (What I Like/What Bothers Me) (Bean)
• Map the Debate with a Synthesis Table (Google Sheets Template)
• Peer Reading and Collaborative Summary Activities (great for study groups)

Writing Project Interpretation & Planning

• How to Have Focused Writing Sessions in 75-90 Minutes
• How to Analyze a Writing Prompt
• Interpreting Key Terms in Writing Assignments
• Backward (or Reverse) Planning for Academic Success

Idea Generation

• Prewriting Strategies for Generating Ideas
• Exploratory Drafts
• Make an Idea Map (What I Like/What Bothers Me) (Bean)
• Map the Debate with a Synthesis Table (Google Sheets Template)

Drafting

• How to Get Started Drafting when You’re Not Sure Where to Begin
• Paragraphs Have Jobs to Do
• Introductions and Conclusions in Academic Writing
• Conclusion Tasks
• Introductory Paragraph Sequences
• Basic Paragraph Structure and Paragraph Coherence Strategies
• Useful Body Paragraph Structures for Academic Writing
  • TRIAC
  • Barclay’s Formula for Working with Two or More Sources at a Time
  • Observation-Implication-Conclusion 
  • MEAL Plan (Duke University)
• How to Write a Good Summary
• How to Paraphrase
• When to Quote, When to Paraphrase, When to Summarize (not finished)

Peer Review/Own-Draft Assessment/Revision Planning

• Describe, Diagnose, Suggest, and Engage to Give Useful Comments in Peer Review
• How to Use (and Not Use!) Feedback – with Revision Checklist

Revision

• Revision is Not Editing
• How to Use (and Not Use!) Feedback – with Revision Checklist

Editing & Polishing/Sentence-Level Control

• How to Proofread for Stigmatizing Sentence-Level Errors
• Sentences Have Jobs to Do
• Sentence Builder – Make your sentences say more
• Use the Paramedic Method to Make Confusing Sentences Clear and Direct
• Pivotal Words (Transitions) and What They Mean
• Types of Prepositions and What They Mean

Citation

• How to Signal When You’re Using Other Writers’ Words
• Not Sure If You Need to Cite? Ask Yourself, “How Did I Learn What I’m Writing About?”
• Citation Style Guides & Resources (UNE Libraries – including RefWorks)
• MLA 7ed Works Cited Template

Reflection