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NW Academic Learning Center Workshops 

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NW Academic Learning Center Workshop Menu

• Full-length workshops (45-50 mins long)

  • MLA 9th Ed.: If MLA is giving you the blues then this is the workshop for you. This workshop focuses on citation and paper formatting of an MLA document. It covers in-text citations, the works cited page, and correct page formatting.
    
  • Literary Analysis: This workshop will cover some literary elements, how to avoid summary and has activities to help with claim-making and analysis. 
    
    
  • Chicago-Turbian Style: Attending the Chicago Style workshop will help you with making footnotes, page formatting, and the bibliography, among other items.  
    
    
  • APA 7th Ed.:  APA can seem a little different than what you’re used to, but this workshop aims to make it more familiar. The APA workshop goes over the basics of APA citation and formatting and covers the most recent updates in APA seventh edition. 
    
    
  • Time Management: College students face unique stressors in their lives in addition to the routine stress of everyday life. This workshop provides an overview of the effects of stress on the body and ways to overcome it. Students will learn practical tips and techniques that they can employ to prevent and reduce stress in school and in life.  
    
    
  • Scholarship Essays: A workshop that explores facets of writing a scholarship essay and some key ideas to be aware of when going over an essay prompt. 
    
    
  • Avoiding Bias in Writing: This workshop focuses on language that unduly influences the reader due to its bias. It goes over how to identify and avoid having bias in your text. 
    
  • Annotations Workshop: The Annotations workshop covers four different ways to look at, read, and notate your text to take better and more useful notes during reading. Quality annotations can help you with remembering and understanding the content later. 
    
    
  • Understanding the Reading Process: This workshop goes over the steps involved in reading, from prereading to reflecting, and how they can help you learn and retain information. Students will practice each step with selections that reflect different types of class texts. 
    

• Mini Workshops (30ish minutes)
  

  • Fragments, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices: This workshop covers fragmented sentences, run-ons and how to identify and avoid them, plus a small section on comma splices. 
    
    
  • Proofreading Tips: This workshop gives advice and techniques on how to proofread your paper to help you clean up and look for mistakes. Also covers some sentence and grammar errors to watch out for, so that you may be able to correct yourself. 
    
    
  • Rhetorical Analysis (Articles): This is one half of our Rhetorical Analysis workshop. This focuses on the three rhetorical appeals regarding the analyzation of articles. 
    
    
  • Rhetorical Analysis (Ads): This is one half of our Rhetorical Analysis workshop. This one focuses on the three rhetorical appeals regarding advertisement analysis. 
    
    
  • Introductions: If trouble getting an essay started is keeping you from getting the rest of your ideas down then a workshop on introductions may be the ticket. The Introductions workshop covers four aspects of an introduction, and their purposes. Also, the workshop will have you putting two introductions together.
    
    
  • Five Comma Rules: This workshop covers five of the more common comma rules/errors and how to address them. 
    
    
  • Sentence Superpowers: If you are trying to supercharge your understanding of sentences this is the workshop to sign up for. The workshop will go over sentence construction, common sentence errors, and has tips on proofreading sentences to catch errors.