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Need a Hand? | Resources & Assistive Technologies for ADHD and Dyslexia | Paperless Notetaking and PDF Annotation | Get Office 365 for No Additional Fee | Best Practices for Learning & College Success | What College Graduates Should Be Able to Do | Get the Most Out of Studying | Asking and Pursuing Questions | Reading | Note Taking | Getting Started on a Paper | Drafting | Giving and Receiving Feedback | Revising | Finalizing Papers | Avoid Plagiarism |Sentence Construction & Grammar | Understanding Academic Writing | Writing in The Sciences
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Need a Hand? Resources for Students at UNE
Assistive Technologies and Resources for Learners with ADHD and Dyslexia
- Information for Faculty
- Factsheet for Anyone Teaching Students with Dyslexia
- What Individual Faculty can Do to Support Students with Dyslexa or Print Disabilities
- Simulation – What Reading Looks Like to Some People with Dyslexia
- Guidelines for Universal Design for Learning
- How to Make a PDF Machine-Readable and Have It Read Aloud
- SensusAcess (free) – converts documents into alternative media, including audiobooks (MP3 and DAISY), ebooks (EPUB, EPUB3, and Mobi), and digital Braille.
- OnlineOCR.net (free) – converts PDFs and other documents to machine-readable formats; free account required for multi-page files.
- Resources for Students
- The Best Assistive Technology Tools for Reading – these tools can help students with ADHD, dyslexia, visual processing disorder reduce the cognitive load of reading
- The Best Assistive Technologies, Sites, and Settings for Dyslexics (Wired Magazine)
- Preparing for College with Dyslexia (Child Mind Institute)
- Reading and Writing Strategies for Dyslexic College Students
- The Study Skills Toolkit for Students with Dyslexia – requires UNE libraries login.
- How to Make a PDF Machine-Readable and Have It Read Aloud
- SensusAcess (free) – converts documents into alternative media, including audiobooks (MP3 and DAISY), ebooks (EPUB, EPUB3, and Mobi), and digital Braille.
- OnlineOCR.net (free) – converts PDFs and other documents to machine-readable formats; free account required for multi-page files.
- Assistive Learning Tools for Students with ADHD.
- Alais Winton, The Self-Help Guide for Teens with Dyslexia: Useful Stuff You May Not Learn at School (available as an ebook in the UNE Library)
- Tracy Robey, From Procrastination to Productivity: Writing Strategies for College Students With (and Without) Learning Disabilities
- Access to audio books, epubs, and texts in non-print reading formats
- Bookshare – People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.
- Learning Ally – human-narrated audio textbooks and literature
- National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (Library of Congress)
- UNE Library digital collections
- UNE Library Curated Collection on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, including Neurodiversity
- Fonts, apps, & browser extensions that might help neurodiverse readers & writers
- OpenDyslexic font package
- OpenDyslexic Extension for Chrome – displays web text in the OpenDyslexic font
- Immersive Reader (often built into Microsoft applications such as Word Online, OneNote Online, Teams, and the Edge browser). Learn more about how to use Immersive Reader
- Bionic Reading – app and browser extension that creates artificial fixation points in text making it easier to read for some people
- Omoguru – app for smartphones and tablets that helps you make the text more readable and to decode letters and words easier. A set of tools helps improve reading rhythm, focus, and speed.
- Helperbird (Chrome Extension) – allows users to customize webpages to suit their preferences, makes Microsoft’s Immersive Reader available in the browser, integrates with Google Docs and Slides as well
- Screen Mask (Chrome Extension) – a reading tool that follows your mouse or touch to help eliminate page distractions so that you can focus on reading one passage at a time
- Speechify – reads text, paid version lets you scan any book and make it machine-readable
- Speechtexter – type with your voice.
- Natural Readers (free) – reads machine-readable texts in a pretty natural-sounding voice
- Ghotit Dyslexia Keyboard – The keyboard predicts words by using Ghotit Quick Spell Word-Prediction, the technology designed for writers with typing issues and phonetic writers; this technology increases writing speed and successfully predicts intended words with instant correction of the first misspelled letters
- Ghotit Real Writer and Reader – reading and writing support software from Ghotit. Useful for people with dyslexia, L2 (ELL) readers and writers, and maybe dysgraphia
- TextHelp Read&Write – a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work
- TextHelp – Equatio – an advanced equation editor that makes math digital and accessible. Students can speak, draw, or type problems and equations directly onto their devices. Teachers can use Equatio to save time when it comes to creating accessible math lessons and assessments
- Co:Writer – Co:Writer helps give you the words and phrases you’re intending as you type—even if your grammar and spelling are way off. Just type a letter or two and Co:Writer predicts words and phrases in real time. Companion to Snap&Read
- Snap&Read – Snap&Read is a powerful suite of tools to help with reading challenges. It includes a text-to-speech tool, a snapshot tool to turn inaccessible text on the web to machine-readable text, an annotation tool, a pdf-conversion tool that makes them machine-readable, a capture tool, and a translation tool. Companion to Co:Writer
- Wordspeller SpellEZ Phonetic Dictionary – iOS, Android, Amazon
- Sight word development
- Dr. Cheeseman’s Best Sight Word Apps
- Frywords – flashcard app (iPhone/iPad, Google Play)
- Frywords Ninja
- Sight Words by Photo Touch
- Dr. Cheeseman’s Best Sight Word Apps
- MyStudyLife.com – planner, scheduler, task planning, reminder (IOS, Android)
- Noise generator: white, pink, brown
Apps for Electronic (Paperless) Notetaking and PDF Annotation
- GoodNotes
- Notability
- One Note (IOS) (Windows) (Android)
- VideoAnt (free web-based video annotator)
- Acrobat Reader
- Preview (built into MacOS)
Alternative Word Processing Software
- FocusWriter – free distraction-reducing writing software
- Scrivener – writing and writing-project management tool, great for research, fiction writing, and more
How to Access Office 365 at UNE (and Install It on Your Computer)
Best Practices for Learning & College Success
Approach Your Courses with the Right Attitude
- What Every First-Year Nor’Easter Needs to Know
- How to Thrive in College Reading and Writing I & II
- How to Get the Most Out of College
- Baseline Knowledge and Expectations for Entering College Students Expecting Success
- Essential Behaviors for First-Year College Success
- Essentials for College Graduates
- AAC&U “The Career-Ready Graduate: What Employers Say about The Difference College Makes” Report (Ashley P. Finley for the AAC&U)
- Embracing 16 Essential Habits of Mind
- Thinking Routines
- Six Secrets for College Success
- What Kind of Learner Do You Want to Be?
- Growth Mindset
- Talbert, “In Defense of Teaching Yourself the Material”
Learn How to Learn
- How to Prepare for Class
- The Study Cycle & Focused Study Sessions
- How to Have Focused Writing Sessions in 75-90 Minutes
- How to Have Focused Reading Sessions in 75-90 Minutes
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- How to Study Using Bloom’s Taxonomy (Iowa State)
- The Learning Scientists
- RetrievalPractice.org
- Study Cognition Toolboxes
- HowToStudy.org
- Make It Stick – The Gist (RetrievalPractice.org)
- Study Smarter – Info Graphic from Make It Stick and the ACUE
- The Power of Overlearning
- There are Better Ways of Studying (Willingham)
- Buckle Down, How to Study When You Don’t Really Want To
- How to Get in the Deep Focus Zone
- How to Focus in the Age of Distraction
- How to Get Excited About Topics that Bore You
- Learn to Be a Better Learner: 10 Tips for Success in Pharmacy School and Beyond
- Bloom’s Taxonomy – Cognitive & Knowledge Dimensions
- Bloom’s Taxonomy – Simpler
- Metacognitive Learning Log
- Learning Log (shorter)
- Log Your Daily Activities
- Universal Design for Learning Guidelines
- Study Techniques
- How to Build Understanding
- Backward (or Reverse) Planning for Academic Success
- How to Make Your Own Study Guide Mini-Workshop (video)
LearnWell Projects Resources
Founder of The Learnwell Projects and learning specialist Leonard Geddes makes learning science readily accessible to students and instructors in compelling and motivating tools. His resources are highly recommended for anyone seeking to improve students’ academic performance. Here’s a small sample. Visit The LearnWell Projects at https://thelearnwellprojects.com/tools/. Mr. Geddes has a YouTube channel as well.
- Understand How Different Thinking Skills Pay Off in School and Work – “Differentiating Students’ Thinking Skills” – Pt. 1
- Understand How Different Thinking Skills Pay Off in School and Work – “Differentiating Students’ Thinking Skills” – Pt. 2
- Thinkwell-Learnwell Diagram
Communicate Well With Your Professors
Time Management
- Log Your Daily Activities
- Assignment Tracker
- Semester-At-A-Glance Calendar Template
- Week-At-A-Glance Calendar Template
- Time Management: How to Use a Planner
- Make a “Whole-Life” Planner
- MyStudyLife.com – planner, scheduler, task planning, reminder (IOS, Android)
Learn How Not to Procrastinate
- Anxious About Academic Performance? Turn Anxiety into Success.
- Why You Procrastinate – It’s About Managing Your Emotions Not Self-Control or Laziness
- The Science Behind Procrastination
- How to Beat Procrastination
- Identify Your Most Productive Times of Day (heat mapping)
- From Procrastination to Productivity: Writing Strategies for College Students with (and without) Learning Disabilities and ADHD (Tracy Robey)
Understand What You’re Being Asked to Do
- What Does My Professor Mean By Analyze? Jim Burke’s A-List: Essential Vocabulary For Academic Success
- How to Analyze a Writing Prompt
Know What A College Graduate Should Know & Be Able to Do and Work to Gain These Skills and Knowledge
- University of New England Student Learning Outcomes
- Degree Qualifications Profile – Describes the Knowledge, Skills and Proficiencies Degree Holders Should Have
- Association of American Colleges & Universities Value Rubrics
- Essential Habits of Mind, Literacies, and Skills for College Graduates
Get the Most Out of Studying
In this series of short videos, Samford University cognitive psychologist Stephen Chew explains how to learn more effectively
- Pt. 1 – Beliefs That Make You Fail or Succeed
- Pt. 2 – What Students Should Know About How People Learn
- Pt. 3 – Cognitive Principles for Optimizing Learning
- Pt. 4 – Putting Principles for Learning into Practice
- Pt. 5 – I Blew the Exam, Now What?
Ask and Pursue Questions Across Your Education
- Question Stems
- Essential and Supporting Questions
- Types of Questions
- 5 Steps to Asking Good Questions
- Menu for Developing Questions
Read Better
Top Reading Resources
- College Reading Secrets
- Active Reading Procedures
- How to Have Focused Reading Sessions in 75-90 Minutes
- Strategies for Previewing a Reading
- Chunking a Reading
- Supercharge Your Academic Reading By Focusing on Concepts
- 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)
Deeper Dive into Reading
- Academic Word Lists (and sublists: Averil Coxhead, Victoria University of Wellington) – word families encountered in reading in order of frequency
- Recognizing Organization Patterns (Monterey Pennisula College)
- Reader’s Workbench (Pat C. Hoy II)
- Graphic Organizers for Common Text Structures/Reading
- Annotation as a Form of Multisensory Learning (Doyle and Zakrajsek)
- Sample Annotation
- Tracking a Writer’s Moves
- General Readers’ Rules of Notice for Nonfiction
- Simplify Complex Sentence Structures for Better Comprehension
- Identify Your Reading Difficulty – Then Get Help
- Threshold Concepts for College Reading
- How to Remember More of What You Read
- How to Read Literary Texts – CRIT (U Texas)
- How to Annotate a Text
- Reading Difficult Texts
- What to Do When You’re Reading and Confused
- When You Don’t Know What a Word Means, Be a Literacy Detective
- Take Note of What a Paragraph Does as Well as What It Says
- Interrogating Texts: 6 Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard (Susan Gilroy)
- Notice Pivotal Words to Understand How Sentences and Paragraphs Connect
- Reading Fast and Slow (eye-movement)
- Three Tips for Increasing Reading Efficiency and Comprehension: Reduce eye movement, expand your focal range, quiet your internal voice
- More Practical Advice on Reading Efficiency
- Question and Answer Relationships
- Categories and Concepts (Gregory Murphy)
- Example of Group Annotation using Padlet
- Laswell’s Model of Communication – Expanded
- The Rhetorical Triangle – Expanded
- Rhetorical Appeals – Logos, Pathos, Ethos Defined (Gagich and Zickel)
- How to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper: A Guide for Non-scientists
- How You Should Read Coronavirus Studies, or any Science Paper (Carl Zimmer)
- How to Read a Scientific Paper (Elsevier – infographic)
- How to Read a Scientific Article (Purugganan & Hewitt – in depth advice)
- Excelsior Online Reading Lab
Take Better Notes
- Sketch-noting for College
- Sketch Note Visual Vocabulary Basics
- Sample Sketch Note of a Journal Article and Critique
- Cornell Notetaking with Visuals
- Cornell Note Template with Question and Summary Boxes
- Taking Notes from Textbooks
- Diagram and Relationship Types
- Multimodal Authoring Tools
- Graphic Organizers for Common Text Structures/Reading
- Map the Debate with a Synthesis Table (Google Sheets Template)
Understand Academic Writing
- Federal Plain Writing Guidelines – lots of very clear writing advice and techniques here.
- Academic Discourse and the Shared Values of Academic Writing
- Academic Phrasebank (U Manchester) – sentence stems for many situations in academic writing
- Why Most College Writing Instructors Want Their First-Year Students to Move on From the Five-Paragraph Essay
- The Politics of the Paragraph (Michelle Kenney)
- College Writing Genres – There Aren’t as Many Types as You Think and Identifying the Correct Genre Called for in a Prompt is Crucial to Your Success
- Use Evaluative Metawords (aka voice markers) to Signal Your Engagement with the Ideas You’re Writing About
- A very helpful set of lists of metadiscourse markers (you have to scroll down)
- Editing for Metadiscourse (Conrad van Dyk on The Nature of Writing)
- What are Discourse and Metadiscourse Markers? (with examples)
- Prominent Kinds of Metadiscourse in Academic Writing and Examples to Adapt
- Expressing Opinion and Attitude in Academic Writing
- More on Academic Style and Expressing Considered Opinions Effectively in Academic Writing
- What Does My Professor Mean By Analyze? Jim Burke’s A-List: Essential Vocabulary For Academic Success
Academic Writing Genres
- Argument (Harvard Writes)
Getting Started on a Paper
- Understanding The Writing Process
- Metacognitive Questions for Task Planning & Interpretation
- How to Have Focused Writing Sessions in 75-90 Minutes
- Important Writing Techniques in Everyday Language
- How to Analyze a Writing Prompt
- Interpreting Key Terms in Writing Assignments
- What Does My Professor Mean By Analyze? Jim Burke’s A-List: Essential Vocabulary For Academic Success
- Prewriting Strategies for Generating Ideas
- Exploratory Drafts
- Quotation – Comment – Question
- MLA Manuscript Formatting Template
- Get Started with Google Docs
Writing a Draft
- How to Get Started Drafting when You’re Not Sure Where to Begin
- How to Have Focused Writing Sessions in 75-90 Minutes
- And, but and or – “On the Three Most Important Words in the English Language” (Miller and Juresic)
- Organization Patterns and the Pivot Words that Signal Them
- Introductions and Conclusions in Academic Writing
- Introductory Paragraph Sequences
- Basic Paragraph Structure and Paragraph Coherence Strategies
- Useful Body Paragraph Structures for Academic Writing
- Conclusion Tasks
- How to Signal When You’re Using Other Writers’ Words
- When Do I Need to Cite?
- When to Quote, When to Paraphrase, When to Summarize
- Quoting and Paraphrasing (U Wisconsin – includes advice about paraphrasing complex or difficult passages)
- How to Paraphrase
- How to Write a Good Summary
- Paragraphs Have Jobs to Do
- Six Ways Experienced Writers Work with the Words of Others: Quotation and Paraphrase
- Using Sources (the Joseph Harris way) – Coming to Terms, Forwarding, Countering
- Joe Bizup’s BEAM: A Rhetorical Vocabulary for Using Sources (graphic)
- Academic Phrasebank (U. of Manchester, UK) – lots of sentence templates for a wide variety of academic writing situations in all disciplines
Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Describe, Diagnose, Suggest, and Engage to Give Useful Comments in Peer Review
- A Students’ Eye View of Peer Review
- A Rubric to Guide Students Doing Peer Review
- Another Rubric to Guide Students Doing Peer Review
- Summary of Ways of Responding (Elbow & Belanoff)
- How to Use (and Not Use!) Feedback – with Revision Checklist
Revising Drafts
- Prioritize Global Concerns First, Local Concerns Second (Purdue OWL)
- Revision is Not Editing
- Global and Local Concerns in Student Writing (U Wisconsin-Madison)
- How to Use (and Not Use!) Feedback – with Revision Checklist
- Reverse Outlining: A Writer’s Technique for Examining Organization (U Wisconsin)
Finalizing a Paper for Submission
- How to Proofread for Stigmatizing Sentence-Level Errors
- Top 20 Errors in Undergraduate Writing (Stanford U. – Hume Center for Writing and Speaking)
- Paper Finishing Checklist (for Drown’s classes, other situations might vary.)
- 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
- How to Cite Rising Cairn
Sentence Construction and Grammar Resources
- Sentences Have Jobs to Do
- Sentence Builder – Make your sentences say more
- Use These Sentence Structures to Express Complex or Multipart Ideas (Sentence Shapes)
- Use the Paramedic Method to Make Confusing Sentences Clear and Direct
- Using and Punctuating Coordinating Conjunctions Like For, And, Not, But, Or, Yet, So
- Using and Punctuating Subordinating Conjunctions Like Because, Since, Which
- Understanding and Punctuating Dependent (Subordinate) Clauses
- Rules for Sentence Combining in English (U Miami, OH)
- Pivotal Words (Transitions) and What They Mean
- Types of Prepositions and What They Mean
- Use Evaluative Metawords (aka voice markers) to Signal Your Engagement with the Ideas You’re Writing About
- A very helpful set of lists of metadiscourse markers (you have to scroll down)
- Editing for Metadiscourse (Conrad van Dyk on The Nature of Writing)
- What are Discourse and Metadiscourse Markers? (with examples)
- The Functions of Modal Verbs
- Grammar Girl
- Grammarly Handbook
Plan and Paraphrase, Don’t Plagiarize
- Understanding Plagiarism – a very helpful module from Carleton College, includes 5 ethical principles for identifying plagiarism and conceptualizing the harms that come from it. Has useful scenarios, including scenarios to help students and instructors think about AI writing tools. There’s a page about appropriating snippets of software code in computer programming courses. The FAQ is very useful.
- Plagiarism Prevention Guide (Middle Georgia State University)
- Why Students Plagiarize (Middle Georgia State University)
- How to Analyze a Writing Prompt
- Backward (or Reverse) Planning for Academic Success
- Not Sure If You Need to Cite? Ask Yourself, “How Did I Learn What I’m Writing About?”
- Quoting and Paraphrasing (U Wisconsin – includes advice about paraphrasing complex or difficult passages)
- How to Paraphrase
- How to Write a Good Summary
- ENG 110 Academic Integrity Pledge with Assistance Disclosure
- UNE SASC Statement on AI and Academic Integrity
- UNE Academic Integrity Policy
Plagiarism Resources for Instructors
- The Citation Project
- Howard, et. al., “Writing From Sources, Writing from Sentences”
- Jamieson and Howard. “Sentence-Mining: Uncovering the Amount of Reading and Reading Comprehension In College Writers’ Researched Writing”
- Jamieson. “Reading and Engaging Sources: What Student’s Use of Sources Reveals About Advanced Reading Skills”
- Howard, “A Plagiarism Pentimento” (paper that establishes ‘patchwriting’ as a concept)
- Price, “Beyond Gotcha!: Situating Plagiarism in Policy and Pedagogy“
- Nelms, “Plagiarism Overview: What the Research on Plagiarism Tells Us”
- Gallant, et. al, “Plagiarism or Not? Investigation of Turnitin®‐detected Similarity Hits in Biology Laboratory Reports”
- Avoiding Plagiarism in Lab Reports (University of Regina)
- How to Recognize the Use of Online Paraphrasing Tools
- Automatic Paraphrasing: A Problem for Academia?
- Paraphrasing Tips and Activities to Teach Paraphrasing
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