Writing and Reading Support Resources

Writing Support Resources

• Need a proofreader for your paper/assignment to check your grammar or APA citations? Go to your Canvas Course and click on Tutor.com: 24/7 Online Tutoring tab or visit the library’s page to access the database (under Current Services).
• Grammarly, a tool to check your writing, is now available to Residents. Please check your Alder GSE email address to access it. Contact Ray Pun, Academic and Research Librarian, for more information.
• Writing Transition Sentences – an APA resource to help you identify ways to write transition sentences. 
• When to summarize, paraphrase, and quote? – This resource explains the differences and when to summarize, paraphrase, and quote a source for your papers.
• Paraphrase self-test tool – This tool will help you paraphrase a text in your own words. 
• Alder Graduate School of Education Writing Guide for Students is a guide for residents to explore for resources and support for academic writing/reading.

Reading Support Resources

• Reading Tracker Template (Make a copy) – If you are planning to keep track of your readings, consider using this tool. 
• What is Skimming?
• Reading Comprehension Tips
• Guiding Questions to Critique a Text – A guiding document of questions for you to critique a text and formulate your ideas.
• Interrogating Texts – Reading habit skills to help you interrogate and critique texts

Taking Notes

• How to Take Notes?
• Annotating Tips
• Mindmapping Tool – Explore this tool for visual note taking

Citation References Resources

• In-text citations made easy in APA format (Video) – What happens if you want to cite a text in a sentence? Watch this short video.
• APA Reference Page Set Up (Video) – Learn how to set up your reference page in APA format. 
• APA Format 7th Edition: Reference Page Tutorial (Video) – Another video on setting up the reference page in APA format.

RWGL Resources

• Reading & Writing at the Graduate Level Note Taking Template (Make a copy)
• Module 1 Video Recording & Slide Deck
• Module 2 Video Recording & Slide Deck

Tools to Use to Organize 

• Zotero – A free tool to manage articles in PDFs/references
• KAMI – A collaborative tool to keep track of your reading/writing
• Read and Write Extension (for Google Chrome Browsers) – A free extension to read text out loud on Chrome Browsers
• DocDrop – Converting PDF texts into reading optical character recognition text