| Workshops and
Presentations
The Academic Center will offer face-to-face workshops
and presentations during some semesters. Dates, times, and locations for presentations
are posted
here.
No face-to-face workshops
or presentations are currently scheduled.
Additionally, the center offers online workshops or
presentations that can be worked through or viewed at your convenience.
These workshops or presentations may be
web-based or Power Point presentations.
Power Point presentations contain audio. The Power Point presentations may require
the installation of Java. (Free and available from
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/1.4.2_06/index.html.)
The center has the following workshops and presentations
available online.
Researching and Documentation
Style (Citing)
Documenting
Sources Using APA Format
(A
Power Point presentation with audio. 18 slides. Approximately 15
minutes.)
Cheryl Kuretsch, Academic Center peer tutor, created this presentation that discusses general guidelines
to APA style,
explains
APA references pages, and offers information about parenthetical
citations. Katie Moody
provides the audio for the presentation. This presentation is not
intended to be a complete reference to APA style,
but it does
provide
guidelines
for
the most
common elements
used by
students
writing
research papers. Related Materials: APA
Quick Reference Guide.
Documenting Sources Using MLA Format
(A Power Point presentation with audio. 19 slides. Approximately 11
minutes.)
Paige Ruschhaupt, Academic Center peer tutor, provides the
audio for this presentation that discusses general guidelines for
MLA style,
explains
MLA works cited
pages, and offers information about parenthetical citations. This
presentation is not intended to be a complete reference to MLA style,
but it does provide guidelines for the most common elements used by
students writing research papers. Related Materials: MLA
Quick Reference Guide.
Understanding Plagiarism
(A Power Point presentation with audio.
15 slides. Approximately 30 minutes.)
Lisa Bullock originally delivered a
version of this presentation in 2004. This revised
and updated presentation, voiced by Katie Moody, defines
plagiarism, suggests why some students plagiarize,
indicates common forms that plagiarism takes, and shares
how readers know when writers are plagiarizing.
The presentation also indicates why citation is
important and lists other Academic Center resources
related to avoiding plagiarism, researching, and
writing.
Writing Academic Proposals
(A Power Point presentation with audio.
24 slides.
Approximately 40 minutes.)
This presentation by Jennifer Mond,
Academic Center peer tutor, discusses academic proposals
as persuasive documents. Mond provides an example
proposal and discusses each section within the sample
proposal, focusing on the purpose of each section and on
strategies for success. Katie Moody provides the
audio for this presentation.
Grammar
Dangling
Modifiers
(A Power Point presentation
with audio. 10 slides. Approximately 6 minutes.)
Candice Chovanec Melzow, Academic Center peer tutor, created and provides
the audio for this presentation on identifying and correcting dangling
modifiers.
A print-friendly
version of the Identifying
Dangling Modifiers Flowchart (PDF 48 KB) from the Dangling Modifier
Presentation is available. Related Materials: Dangling
Modifiers handout.
Sentence Errors
(A Power Point
presentation with audio. 16 slides. Approximately 12 minutes.)
Candice Chovanec Melzow, Academic Center peer tutor, created and
provides the audio for this presentation. This presentation includes
information about fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences.
Related Materials: Eliminating
Fragments and Comma
Splices and Fused Sentences handouts.
Subject/Verb Agreement
(A Power Point
presentation with audio. 18 slides. Approximately 20 minutes.)
Candice Chovanec Melzow, Academic Center peer tutor, created and provides
the audio for this presentation on subject/verb agreement. Related
Materials: Subject/Verb
Agreement Pt. 1 and Subject/Verb
Agreement Pt. 2 handouts.
Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
(A Power Point presentation with audio. 20 slides.
Approximately 16 minutes.)
Candice Chovanec Melzow, Academic Center peer tutor, created and provides
the audio for this presentation on pronoun antecedent agreement. Related
Materials: Pronoun
Antecedent Agreement handout.
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