Academics at Cal: How to Apply Writing and
Study Strategies for Success
Using the By-Request Workshop form below, faculty, academic staff, and student organizations can request a writing or study strategies workshop to be presented on-site, at their classroom or meeting space. Workshops can be scheduled as early as Week 4!
Benefits for Faculty, Academic Staff, and Student Organizations:
If you are thinking of making a request , our By-Request Workshops offer a number of benefits. You can select from the list below the presentation that best suits your needs. You can plan ahead and choose on what date and time you want us to present. The SLC will then send our well- trained tutors, peer mentors, or professional staff to facilitate your workshop.
In order for us to respond to your workshop request, we ask that you adhere to the following:
- Please submit your request no later than two working weeks before the actual date on which you want us to present.
- Due to budgetary constraints, we can only honor one workshop request per class/group/organization each semester.
- Only faculty, academic staff, and student groups who are working with registered undergraduate students can request these workshops.
- We ask that you make copies of all the handouts you want us to use during the presentation.
- To the extent that is possible, we ask that the workshops take place on campus and between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
Benefits for Your Students:
With your help, we will design a fun and productive By-Request Workshop to suit your students' needs.
While helping your students to devise strategies for brainstorming, planning, drafting, and revising essays or for managing their time, research, and coursework more effectively, SLC tutors, peer mentors, and professional staff will employ our effective, time-tested activities and written materials to support your students in enhancing their academic skills and confidence.
Your students will have the opportunity to ask questions about the approaches to academic reading, studying, speaking, and writing we will share with them. As important, your students will also learn about the SLC resources and other campus resources that are available to them outside of your classroom.
Our By-Request Workshop topics are listed below. Each workshop is approximately fifty minutes long.
Workshop 1: Note-Making
Your students will learn how to make the most of all their notes! They will apply active reading and listening strategies and learn new methods for taking and organizing notes. |
Workshop 2: Close Reading Strategies
Do you think your students need to delve beyond the surface meaning of the books they are reading? Your students will learn to mindfully approach reading as a process. This workshop will show students what goes into close textual analysis. |
Workshop 3: Brainstorming
Are your students having trouble deciding what to write about? In this workshop, students will learn invention strategies that can lead them to exciting paper ideas. |
Workshop 4: Thesis Statements
Do your students know what goes into a thesis? In this workshop, students will learn how to formulate effective theses and discover how the thesis works in a paper. |
Workshop 5: Introductions and Conclusions
Are your students unsure about how to develop their intros and conclusions? In this workshop, your students will analyze the purpose of introductions and conclusions and learn new ways to implement creativity in their writing. |
Workshop 6: Proving Arguments With Evidence
In this workshop, your students will learn tools to integrate quotes and evidence into their papers. They will discover how to effectively analyze quotes and evidence to support their arguments. |
Workshop 7: Revision Strategies: Content
In this workshop, your students will learn effective ways to proofread and edit their papers to make their writing more understandable and convincing to their readers. |
Workshop 8: Academic Tone In Papers And Participation
Are your students wondering how to write for an academic audience?Are they not sure how to approach you with questions? In this workshop, your students will learn more about the characteristics of an academic audience and effective ways to approach office hours, speak up in class, and achieve confidence in their writing and public speaking. |
Workshop 9: Time Management & Procrastination
In this workshop, your students will learn strategies that will help them plan their academic work schedule more effectively. They will learn how to formulate an action plan to help them prevent procrastination and achieve a more balanced life. |
Workshop 10: Making The Most Out of Study Groups
Many of your students have benefited from participating in study groups.In this workshop, your students will learn how to organize and facilitate study groups efficiently and how to collaborate for success! |
Workshop 11: Writing A Research Paper
Are your students writing a research paper? This workshop will review the steps involved in narrowing
down a topic and writing a focused, well-researched essay. |
| Workshop 12: Revision Strategies: Grammar Are your students done editing the content of their papers and interested in polishing up their grammar? In this workshop, your students will learn effective ways to proofread their papers and edit for sentence-level concerns to make their writing more understandable to their readers. |
Workshop 13: Summary vs. Analysis
Do you want your students to "show, not tell" what they are getting from the text? This workshop will help your students learn how to base their analysis on concrete textual evidence. |
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We are available for advance consultation. For more information, visit http://slc.berkeley.edu or e-mail:
Study Strategies Co-coordinators:
Gonzalo Arrizón (Rm. 144 Chávez Student Center) imp8@berkeley.edu
Nic Voge (Rm. 136 Chávez Student Center) nicvoge@berkeley.edu
Writing Program Co-coordinators:
Alberto Ledesma (Rm. 127 Chávez Student Center) aledesma@berkeley.edu
Carolyn Swalina (Rm. 121 Chávez Student Center) cbs@berkeley.edu
