RWGL Support Resources
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