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  • Learning and Teaching

All you ever wanted to know about Academic Skills but were afraid to ask!

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on October 30, 2020November 16, 2020

Find out more about the Academic Skills model of student support and how the Academic Skills team is set up to help you and your students.

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  • Learning and Teaching

Supporting students’ academic integrity

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on July 31, 2020August 10, 2020

Your Academic Skills Coordinator can assist with support strategies that can develop students’ writing and referencing skills, reducing the temptation to breach academic integrity principles.

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  • Learning and Teaching

Who you gonna call?

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on June 24, 2020June 25, 2020

As you plan for your Session 2 classes, call on the Academic Skills Coordinator to arrange resources and strategies to provide timely support for your students.

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  • Learning and Teaching

Common problem? Easy fix!

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on May 28, 2020

If you’ve noticed writing, referencing, and learning issues common to students in your subject, here are some easy-to-implement strategies to address the problems in future iterations of the subject.

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  • Learning and Teaching

Errors ain’t errors!

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on April 28, 2020May 1, 2020

Oils ain’t oils, and errors in referencing and writing are similarly not all the same. These marking criteria instructively differentiate the types of errors students make.

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  • Learning and Teaching

Supporting students online

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on March 30, 2020April 7, 2020

Online learning may be new to your students, but it is business as usual for academic skills. Here’s a summary of the support we provide to improve their online learning, writing, referencing, and numeracy skills.

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  • Learning and Teaching

202030? Bring it on!

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on January 24, 2020March 2, 2020

Transitioning to APA (7th ed.)? Looking for ways to support the development of your students’ literacy skills in 202030? No problem. Here are some easy-to-implement resources and strategies that will help you support the development of your students’ literacy and referencing skills.

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  • Learning and Teaching

Literacy feedback? Too easy!

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on September 20, 2019October 17, 2019

Here are three simple tips to make providing language feedback both effective and efficient.

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  • Learning and Teaching

What happens when …

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on July 31, 2019August 1, 2019

The Assignment Feedback service is the most popular Academic Skills service. This post will help you understand how this service works, why you should recommend it to your students, and what to do if you have any concerns about it.

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  • Learning and Teaching

Q: Do your students read?

  • by Debbie Wheeler
  • Posted on May 14, 2019May 15, 2019

Reading is a critical foundational skill that many students don’t have. Find out how to assist your students to read and learn more effectively with these simple strategies.

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