Attending to the Act of Reading: Critical Reading, Contemplative Reading, and Active Reading
This article differentiates among types of reading and offers strategies to promote active reading. It is a useful resource if you would like to know more about teaching reading skills.
ARECCI Screening Tool
Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI) Screening is a research tool to help determine project risk and relevant ethics reviews.
Thesis Whisperer Blog
Author: Thesis Whisperer A blog about academic research and writing. View Website
Research on language and literacy socialization at Canadian universities
This article highlights the changing theoretical understandings of language/literacy socialization processes based on a number of studies, in terms of students’ trajectories, the interplay of students’ (multiple) languages in their learning and performance, the various agents and directions of their socialization, acts of resistance versus compliance with established norms, and the role of peer support and social networks in their academic and social experiences, and ways of tracking these.
RefWorks
Read&Write for Google Chrome™
Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
Purdue Writing Lab
This website offers resources including writing, grammar, and style guides.
Prezi
This website helps you make aesthetic presentations.
PowerPoint Guidelines
PDF with guidelines on how to design a presentation. I’ve used it before, and it has helped me make my PowerPoint more accessible.
Make your Emails Count: How to Write to your Instructors
Guidelines for writing email to your instructors
Academic Writing: Seven features of academic writing
Author: Sheldon Smith A website with numerous self-study content for improving academic communications, specifically disciplinary writing. Easy to use/free/good for self-study/lots of checklists/link to external resources. View Tip Guide
Academic phrasebank
The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation. Great for EAL learners as well as upper-level undergrads and graduate students who are looking for ways to develop their academic vocabulary and find a more scholarly voice.