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
From this interview, Dr. Whetstone stated that the Online Learning Department’s infrastructure at Winthrop had been recently strengthened to include two additional staff members, one Instructional Designer and one intern. Both of these staff members work with faculty to design online and hybrid courses and make recommendations for adding interactive elements to traditional courses.
The goal of the Learners 2 Success Center is to start a book source initiative to help the students that are attending at Saint Petersburg College.
I learned that need to work American Psychological Association (APA) format for sources, grammar usage, and formatting. Citing and listing sources in APA format appears to be a challenge for me. I scored 80 percent on the APA quiz, so I thought I was doing well. Each writing assignment, I received points off and feedback for improvement on APA usage. Grammar usage and formatting was another area to improve. I am a little uncomfortable in my grammar usage, since English was not my strength in high school. A need to expand my usage of vocabulary is probably necessary as well. I think I rely on Word document to format correctly that I may not always check for formatting errors. In the end, I have definitely learned many things and grateful for the
CalU’s student learning Portal is an designated site were the student learner can turn to find support, while the students are participating in CalU’s designated courses for their academic degree program. It is the responsibility of each student to take advantage of this source of information within the student learning portal as well as learn how to navigate the host of sites in the student learning portal to gain insight on important steps and information. The purpose of this paper is to give insight and be a reference to support the use of the student learning portal for future use.
Hunter, B., & Austin, R. (2015). Building Community Through Online Learning in Colleges. College Quarterly, 18(1).
Every time I write a paper, I always as one or two friends to look it over for grammar mistakes and other errors. Especially this year when I was writing college admission essays, everynight it seemed like a friend and I exchanged drafts to edit. The ability to see a friend edit my essay in real time definitely opened my eyes to the rough patches in my writing. Writing and editing essays digitally also saves us the hassle of printing out and then losing numerous paper
A child's main focus in life has always been being successful in school in order to achieve many riches in adulthood. Many people have supported these children to reach this goal by preparing them for about two decades. In return, their family members expect them that these clueless kids return the favor by going to college. Some have put their immense effort beyond their reach, but unfortunately there is a vast majority of students that do not have what it takes both academically and emotionally to earn a college degree or to even meet their own personal standards. Although they received all the help they could get, their parents forget to even consider that what matters the most for these young adults to go to college is their own willingness
The goal of a school counselor is to support students so they will be successful academically, achieve skills that will make them college/career ready and obtains specific strategies that will allow them to be emotionally and socially successful in life. High school, School Counselors should conduct efficient data and work collaboratively with educators, administrators and parents to ensure that their students will be successful by implementing these domains.
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What will you specifically do this semester to prepare yourself for academic success both in GESP and in any graduate class you may be taking?
Achieving academic success is something that many individuals consider to be a challenging task. Some people even think that it might be too difficult to worry even about trying to achieve it. While attempting to reach your goal in obtaining academic success, you must meet your university’s expectations and guidelines to reach your goal of being awarded a degree. If you want to thrive in school, you have to be willing to work hard and make sacrifices. The same initiative will also be needed to be successful in whatever career path you choose for yourself. By proving not only to yourself but others that you can see it through in getting your
Historically, meetings between advisor and advisee occurred face-to-face: first between students and faculty, and later between students and advisors (Gillispie, 2003). Today, technological advances have opened up a number of alternative methods for communication between students and advisors. However, as Jayne K. Drake (2011, p. 10) states, “Good academic advising also provides perhaps the only opportunity for all students to develop a personal, consistent relationship with someone in the institution who cares about them.” Because academic advising can play such an important role in a student’s education, the movement toward utilizing the internet and away from face-to-face interactions is an issue that warrants discussion.
Another shortcoming in my procedures for writing was not utilizing a person or program to proof read my papers. So it became, during a session of self-deprecating humor with a friend I made mention of a hard fought after average grade that he remarked of using an Internet proofreading service. Of course, I loosely took it under advisement, however, I mostly scoffed it off I already spent too much time on the papers. But nonetheless, I looked into the service without success of finding the unicorn free proofreader that would change my writing. In the act of me challenging his unicorn, he decided to show me the site. Low and behold, it was as he described, it gave grammatical, spelling, vocabulary, and other writing advice based off my first
Within an online environment, staff can often feel isolated and in a silo, along with their students behind a screen. However, Kelly has identified ways to bring in the faculty, families, students, and communities into the “school” and has created a tight-knit community.
Academic success could never be fully measured by degrees alone, but it can include a person’s well-being as well as their mind and certain characteristics about a person that make them unique. This success can be achieved in different ways by these different people with different strengths, but there is the same ultimate goal in sight of each and every student enrolled in college at some point. However, this goal of being successful in not only school but in life, can sometimes turn out to be the opposite of how we plan. Of course, a student can achieve success by earning degrees and still fail in life. Academic success can also be a huge constituent to a students vocational calling in college as young students make a transition into adulthood.