Happy Holidays from the SLC
Wishing you all safe and happy holidays. See you in the new decade (2020)!
Wishing you all safe and happy holidays. See you in the new decade (2020)!
Guest blogger and English as Additional Language Peer Educator, Ashley K. writes this week about her experiences with EAL Peer training. In particular, she reflects on a lecture presented by Dr. Ena Lee, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education. Dr. Lee's talk focused on the "commonsense discourses" of English language learning, and how these "commonsense" ideas are often actually wrong.
Ashley connects this talk with her experiences doing a "Pluriligual Identity" exercise and reflecting on her own connections with language learning, identity, and culture.
Want to learn a quick, and Halloween-appropriate, strategy for checking if your sentence is in the active or passive voice?
Read on, if you dare...
For the third year in a row, the SLC will host an undergraduate writing contest.
All contest details, and the submission page, can be found here: https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/slc-uwc
The contest opens on November 29th and submissions will continue to be accepted until January 5th 2020 (at midnight).
Sharing more of the six word stories we have collected by asking members of the SLC community to reflect on their mistakes and/or what they've learned from them. Enjoy! Maybe you'll see yourself in some of these micro-stories! I know I do... :}
Have an argumentative or thesis-based essay coming up for one of your classes? Check out this blog post to help you develop a thorough and well-supported argument!
Thank you to Teeba Obaid, PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education, for contributing this post to the blog!
On July 29th, Julia Lane (SLC Writing Services Associate) did an interview with Ciara Reid on CJSF. Check out the link in the post to listen to the interview and learn about the SLC's forthcoming Inclusive Writing resources.
Do you sometimes find yourself in ‘busy mode’ but not accomplishing much? Do you feel you could be more organized or productive? With the start of the fall semester, it's the perfect time to set some intentions about how you want to spend your time and get prepared!
Hooray! Exams are over and you have 2 weeks until fall term classes start! Time for travel, a staycation on Metro Vancouver’s many beaches, or just an opportunity to catch up on the other life things that you had to put aside during the exam period.
You are almost there! Here are some tips from your friends at the Student Learning Commons to help you make it through the end of this summer exam period.