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The Academic Success Center And The Academic Success Center

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This week’s assignment focused on my experience exploring both the academic success center and the dissertation center via the NCU website. I began with the academic success center (ASC) and was pleased to find an easily accessible link on my NCU homepage just below the “center for teaching and learning” tab. One of the first features I noticed was a link on the right hand side for accessing a live chat. This site features the ability to ask quick questions as needed any time after 3 PM, pacific standard time. Although I did not actually try out the live chat since I was exploring earlier in the morning, it was reassuring to know that this is available. In today’s world of technology I find myself frustrated with automated systems and …show more content…

I discovered that with the “free” feature, I could only copy and paste my documents. If I tried to upload a document, the site wanted me to pay for a premium access. With the copy and paste feature however, I found that choosing one to two paragraphs at a time really helped me to focus on sentence structure and word choice more than when I re-read my entire document all at once. There were color coordinated symbols for editing suggestions such as spelling, grammar and word choice as well as a feature to detect for possible plagiarism. Although I tried a few other editing links, the “polish my paper” website gave me an error message and the “grammar base” website wanted to charge me when redirected to their main web address.
Another concept I learned, or rather something that has been brought to my attention happened while looking at the “APA style central” feature. Here I discovered that I could view sample papers and reference lists. Looking at a sample reference list I realized how many different book sources there are now, each with slightly different referencing rules. When I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 2010 and 2012, things like “ebooks” and “Kindle” were still fairly new. It will be helpful going forward to have sample reference lists like this to verify my APA guidelines.
The only issue that occurred for me was initially signing up for “grammarly.” The sign-up kept insisting that my

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