Student Learning
Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning
Themed Workshops for Faculty of Education
International Students
Semester A 2017
Date
Time
Room
Mar 7
11.00am
TT1.12
Get on top of your reading load.
- Strategies to get through your reading faster
Mar 14
11.00am
TT1.12
Note-making for better learning – are your notes effective?
Mar 21
11.00am
TT1.12
Paraphrasing and summarising to avoid plagiarism.
- Incorporating evidence (reporting verbs)
- In-text citations & APA referencing
Mar 28
11.00am
TT1.12
Structure matters.
- Deconstructing a question & planning
- Writing a well-structured assignment
Apr 4
11.00am
TT1.12
What are lecturers looking for in an essay?
- Tips to ensure you get good grades
Teaching
Dawn
Andrea
Recess
May 2
11.00am
TT1.12
Voices in academic writing – which one is yours?
- Cautious language
May 9
11.00am
TT1.12
Achieving flow in your writing.
- Cohesion within paragraphs
- Coherence of ideas
May 16
11.00am
TT1.12
Improving your academic expression.
- Building your vocabulary
- Sentence structure & grammar (tense)
May 23
11.00am
TT1.12
Punctuation – get it right.
May 30
11.00am
TT1.12
Refining your draft.
Katherine
Dean
Study Break
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These sessions are facilitated by Marie-Christine Wells and senior tutors from Student Learning.
For more help, make an appointment with Student Learning. We look forward to seeing you.
+64 7 838 4657 [email protected] or www.waikato.ac.nz/students/student-learning/