Resources and Handouts
Student Success has developed handouts to grow your academic skills. Feel free to bookmark or print them to refer to them later.
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Study Skills Strategies
From tips on notetaking during lectures to how you can study effectively on your own, we've got you covered with our study skills resources.
Check out these quick videos for an overview of the 6 Strategies for Effective Learning!
Handouts
- Active Listening
- Cornell System of Note Taking
- Cornell Note Taking Template
- Note Taking Strategies
- Visual Note Taking
Other Resources
To set yourself up for success in the online course format, it’s important to remember that you already have study strategies that can be applied to online learning.
Handouts
- Critical Reading
- Critical Reading Worksheet
- Reading Strategies: Close Reading
- Reading Strategies: Noting for Gist
- Reading Strategies: PQ4R-SQ3R
Other Resources
- CrashCourse: Reading Assignments (Video)
- How-to-study.com: A Strategy for Reading Textbooks
- Study Guides and Strategies: Reading Critically
- Study Guides and Strategies: Reading Texts: Marking and Underlining
- HowToStudy.org: Textbook Reading Sites
- HowToStudy.org: Note taking Sites
- National Juris University: How to Be an Effective Critical Reader
Writing Support
Find writing resources to help you with your academic writing and assignments. You can also check out the Books on Academic Writing page to find a selection of books to help you enhance your writing skills.
- APA 7th Edition Documentation Style
- Canadian Press Style
- Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date Style
- Chicago Manual of Style Notes/Bibliography
- MLA Citation 9th Edition
MyLearningSpace: How to Cite
By the end of these interactive modules, you will be able to explain why citations are used in your respective professional research community, create a correct in-text citation and build a comprehensive reference list.
Log in to MyLearningSpace and select Self-Registration to enrol in any of the following modules:
- Writing Services – How to Cite Using APA
- Writing Services - How to Cite Using the Chicago Manual of Style
- Writing Services - How to Cite Using MLA
- Annotated Bibliography
- Argumentative Essay
- Book Review
- Case Report (WriteOnline.ca)
- Journal Article Review
- Lab Report (WriteOnline.ca)
- Literature Review
- Op-Ed
- Reflective Writing
- Reflective Writing (WriteOnline.ca)
- Understanding Your Assignment
- Writing Exam Essays
- Eight Common Grammar Errors
- Punctuation: Comma
- Inclusive Language
- Parts of Speech
- Sentence Types
- Transition Words and Phrases
- Writing Clearly
MyLearningSpace: Writing with Inclusive Language
By the end of this interactive module, students will be able to identify inclusive and antiracist terms in the texts they are studying, writing and citing; identify the appropriate language for a given writing situation; and compose texts that integrate inclusive language.
Log in to MyLearningSpace and select Self-Registration to enrol in the module.
We don't currently offer writing tutoring in French, but you may find the following resources helpful:
Videos on French Grammar Created by Laurier Students (Waterloo Campus)
There are also a lot of great academic writing resources on the web. Here are a few that we like:
- Owl Purdue Online Writing Lab: This is a great resource for citations and referencing, assignment types, and grammar. It also has a useful section for English language learners.
- University of Toronto: Advice on Academic Writing: This website includes sections on the main features of academic writing, including assignment types, writing in different disciplines, citations, plagiarism, grammar, and much more.
- Harvard University Writing Center: This site provides good information on writing in specific disciplines, including history, philosophy, and psychology.
- De Paul University Center for Writing-Based Learning: This site is a good resource for writers as it includes sections on types of writing, revision, publishing.
Generative AI
The Generative AI Guidelines outlines when you can use generative AI in a course and how to acknowledge its use.
The Assignment Planner
The assignment planner is your time management resource to help you stay on top of your assignments. It'll help you navigate through the various stages of the research and writing process by helping you break your assignment down to manageable tasks.