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Our handouts cover over 30 different topics and is your free resource for

  • communication advice
  • strategies for academic success (Fast Facts, denoted by (FF))
  • the new challenges that First-Years face during the first few weeks of college (First Year Fast Facts)

A

A Strong Start (First Year Fast Fact #1) [PDF]

A Lot to Do (First Year Fast Fact #2) [PDF]

Absorbing It All (First Year Fast Fact #3) [PDF]

Abstracts [PDF]

Academic Phrases [PDF]

Annoted Bibliographies [PDF]

Applying to Grad School [PDF]

Applying to Grad School (Law) [PDF]

Applying to Grad School (Medical) [PDF]

Appropriate Articles [PDF]

Argumentative Essays [PDF]

B

BLUF and Topic Sentences (Hook Your Reader) [PDF]

Body Language (Presentations) [PDF]

C

Choosing the Right Article (A, An, The) [PDF]

Citing Sources (Citations and References) [PDF]

Combating Procrastination(FF) [PDF]

Comma Rules [PDF]

Common Academic Phrases [PDF]

Concision Strategies [PDF]

Conference Presentation Strategies [PDF]

Conference Poster Presentation [PDF]

Creating Effective Tables and Charts [PDF]

D

Direct Quotations [PDF]

Diversity Statement [PDF]

Data Visualization [PDF]

Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PDF]

Designing Effective Research Posters [PDF]

Designing Effective Tables [PDF]

Direct Writing [PDF]

Disclosing Disabilities to Professors [PDF]

E

Effective Tables [PDF]

Email Communication Principles [PDF]

Email Structure [PDF]

Exam Prep(FF) [PDF]

Exam Strategies(FF) [PDF]

Executive Summaries [PDF]

Executive Summary Examples [PDF]

F

Fast Facts

Fast Facts for First Year Students

Fighting Test Anxiety(FF) [PDF]

G

Grad School Application Essay [PDF]

Group Study(FF) [PDF]

H

Hook Your Reader [PDF]

How to Succeed in Calculus(FF) [PDF]

How to Succeed in Organic Chemistry(FF) [PDF]

How to Succeed in Physics(FF) [PDF]

How to Successfully Manage CS Programming(FF) [PDF]

I

If you suspect that you have a Learning Disability(FF) [PDF]

Improving Writing Flow (Known-New) [PDF]

IMRD (Structuring your Report/Article) [PDF]

IMRD with Examples (Structuring your Report/Article) [PDF]

Introducing Your Research [PDF]

K

Known-New (Improving Writing Flow) [PDF]

L

Language for Academic Writing [PDF]

Law School Statement of Purpose [PDF]

Lecture Note-taking(FF) [PDF]

Lexical Bundles (Academic Phrases) [PDF]

Literature Review Handout [PDF]

Likert Data [PDF]

M

Make the Case for Your Research [PDF]

Managing Your Time: Words of Advice from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture(FF) [PDF]

Medical School Statement of Purpose [PDF]

Memos [PDF]

More to Consider (First Year Fast Fact #4) [PDF]

N

Novelty Moves (Introducing Research) [PDF]

Note-Taking [PDF]

O

Old-New (Known-New) [PDF]

Oral Qualifying Exams [PDF]

Our Philosophy on Grammar [PDF]

P

Paraphrasing and Direct Quotations [PDF]

Paraphrasing and Plagiarism [PDF]

Paraphrasing Spectrum [PDF]

Parthenon with Thesis Statements [PDF]

Personal Statement [PDF]

Plagiarism(FF) [PDF]

PowerPoint [PDF]

Preparing for Exams(FF) [PDF]

Preparing your Study Space(FF) [PDF]

Presentation Strategies [PDF]

Presenting Posters [PDF]

Presenting Likert Data [PDF]

Professional Emails [PDF]

Proposals [PDF]

Q

Quotations (Direct Quotations) [PDF]

R

Reading Strategies [PDF]

Research Article Format [PDF]

Research Statement [PDF]

Research Posters [PDF]

Responding to Revise & Resubmit [PDF]

Reverse Outline [PDF]

S

Scientific Poster Design [PDF]

Setting and Reaching Academic Goals(FF) [PDF]

Shorten Your Writing [PDF]

Starter Phrases for Academic Writing [PDF]

Stress(FF) [PDF]

Structure of an Email [PDF]

Structuring Your Introduction [PDF]

Structuring Your Report [PDF]

Subject Verb Separation [PDF]

Successful Exam Strategies(FF) [PDF]

T

Tables and Charts [PDF]

Taking Lecture Notes(FF) [PDF]

Taking Notes [PDF]

Teaching Philosophy [PDF]

Team Communication Part I [PDF]

Team Communication Part II handout [PDF] and worksheet [PDF]

Test Anxiety(FF) [PDF]

Textbook Reading Strategies(FF) [PDF]

Thesis Statement Parthenon [PDF]

Thesis and Topic Sentences [PDF]

Thesis-Driven Essays [PDF]

Time Management(FF) [PDF]

Topic Sentences with BLUF [PDF]

Transfer Essay [PDF]

Types of Application Essays for Graduate School [PDF]

V

Viewer Friendly Research Poster [PDF]

Visualizing Data [PDF]

Visual Design for Documents [PDF]

Visual Design for PowerPoints [PDF]

Visual Design for Research Posters [PDF]

W

Writing a Diversity Statement [PDF]

Writing Academic Starter Phrases [PDF]

Writing Professional Emails [PDF]

Y

Your Role as a Partner in Learning(FF) [PDF]