Resources
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Academic skills
- Academics 101: interactive module
- Academic stress
- Communicating with professors or TAs
- Focus and concentration
- Group work
- Math problem solving
- Memory
- Motivation and procrastination
- Note-taking
- Online learning
- Perfectionism
- Presentations
- Reading
- Test anxiety
- Tests and exams
- Time management
Writing skills
- Assignment planner
- Developing a writing habit
- Group writing
- Managing large assignments
- Strategies to keep you on track
- The writing process
Pre-writing
- Analyzing disciplinary expectations
- Common assignment terminology
- Developing an outline
- Thesis statements
Drafting
Editing & revising
- Eliminating wordiness
- Inclusive language
- The reverse outline
- Self-editing checklist
- Transitions
- Write like a scholar
Graduate students
Academic integrity
- What is AI? Why does it matter?
- Academic integrity: interactive module
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Citation styles
- Evaluating sources
- Integrating sources
Grammar & punctuation
- Active and passive voice
- Apostrophes
- Articles
- Articles with count & non-count nouns
- Commas and dashes
- Common problems in grammar
- Colons and semicolons
- Ellipses and brackets
- Fragments, comma splices, run-ons
- Modifiers and how to use them
- Pronoun agreement
- Subject-verb agreement
- Sentence building
- Two-way or double nouns
Assignments & disciplines
- Avoiding plot summary
- Annotated bibliography
- Biology lab reports
- Case study reports (write.ca)
- Compare & contrast essays
- Critical reviews
- Critical book reviews
- Essay-style exams
- Erreurs les plus fréquentes en français écrit
- History essays
- Lab reports (write.ca)
- Literature reviews (write.ca)
- Memo writing
- Mots-liens et expressions utiles
- Reflective writing
- SOCY 122: Style and writing guide
- SOCY 122: Thesis statements
- Types and conventions of science writing
- Les transitions et comment les employer