Words are just words. Or are they? Writing & Learning Peer Angelica Y. writes about the differences between conversational and academic English and gives us some tips for improving our everyday conversations.
Communications major and SLC Writing and Learning Peer, Ayomide G. is back with a companion piece to her post on having a successful midterm season.
We at the SLC hope you have all come through the midterm season well, and hope that you enjoy these 5 steps for effective midterm-recovery!
(and we promise not to mention how close finals are now... okay, maybe we'll mention it once...)
SLC Learning Services Coordinator Ruth Silverman shares notes from the recent session "How I Raised My GPA." The event was wildly popular and invited current students to listen to their peers' stories about raising their GPAs. Stay tuned for the next iteration of this event, coming soon!
This week, Communications major and SLC Writing and Learning Peer, Ayomide G., shares 5 tips on making it through midterm season.
We are looking forward to seeing calendar sales spike at the bookstore after this ;)
It's the first day of exams! Here are some of the SLC's top tips for exam season.
I'm sure I don't have to mention that it is exam time! In this blog post, Donya Samadi -- PhD student in Educational Psychology and former Graduate Facilitator with the SLC -- shares how the concept of self-explanation can be applied to studying.
Self-explanation, Donya explains, may be beneficial because information previously learned is recalled and integrated with new information to generate a self-explanation. In this way, self-explanation is a connection and elaboration to prior knowledge. When engaged in self-explanations, learners can develop new meaningful associations, and further understand the content they are studying.