Follow this link to the materials for a fall 2022 workshop on academic reading strategies. You will find a handout describing the PILLAR method for academic reading. It’s less important to follow the steps precisely. It’s more important to have a set of steps that you can apply to your reading assignments. The most important… Read more Approaches to academic reading
We use paragraphs to signal and create the underlying structure of our writing. If a reader is having trouble seeing how a paragraph relates to the preceding one, it might be a signal that you need to change the structure of the paper. But maybe you just need to add a more informative paragraph transition.… Read more Paragraph Transitions
In this post, we’ll look at a quick exercise you can do to work on listening comprehension. If you’ve just gotten to campus, you may be feeling like everyone is talking a million words a minute and it’s impossible to keep up (and it’s probably harder if you are reading this while everyone on campus… Read more Listening Practice