Academic Assistance
Purpose: This page provides students and faculty with links to academic resources available at Auburn University and on the Internet.
How To Use This Page: Students and faculty should assess their needs and then browse the links for information. Many links cover multiple topics, while others address certain items. Suggestions have been added as to which links meet specific needs, but all offer excellent academic information.
Who Benefits? You do not need to be in academic difficulty to benefit from these links. All students can gain insights that will promote academic success.
Links: The assistance links are divided into categories. Choose a category from the menu and click go to view the links.
General Study Skills
- Auburn University's Academic Support Services provides different types of support for students.
- St. Thomas' Study Guides and Strategies offers a long list of resources for different study skills.
- University of Minnesota-Duluth's Study Strategies provides links to assessment and learning opportunities.
Writing Skills
- Brazosport's How to Proofread a Paper gives tips and exercises on proper proofreading.
- Auburn University English Center provides online resources for academic reading and writing and contact information for its services.
- Guide to Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor in English at Rutgers University at Newark says: "These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes."
- Marist's Writing Skills Required For College is a list of tips for different aspects of academic writing
- Paradigm: Online Writing Assistant suggests strategies for different kinds of writing and essays.
- Purdue's Resources for Writers is a large resource for writing skills, grammar and usage exercises, and handouts.
Reading Comprehension / Critical Thinking
- Assess Your Reading Habits is an online survey provided by Marist College to find out what kind of a reader you are.
- Marist's Reading Strategies and Critical Thinking is a list of tips for different aspects of reading and thinking.
- Brazosport Colleges's Seven Habits of Highly Effective Readers suggests seven ways to read more effectively (pdf file).
- Textbook Reading at Cornell University gives different systems to read more effectively (pdf file).
- York's University's Reading Skills for University gives an overview over different sets of skills.
Organizing Information
- Brazosport's College's Mind Mapping shows how useful illustrations help internalize materials.
- Brazoports's College's Managing Your Memory gives ideas on how to train your memory.
- University of Victoria's Learning Skills Handouts provides tips on training your mind and on learning successfully.
Note-taking Skills
- York University's Note-taking at University gives an overview.
- Step - By - Step To Effective Notes, rom Ohio University, provides useful exercises and lessons on how to take notes for a lecture.
- Brazosport College's Taking Classroom Notes
Content-area Skills
- The University of Texas' Content Specific Study Skills gives tips on English, Math, Sciences, GRE, English as a Foreign Language and general study skills.
Time Management
- The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection, Time Management is a list of links on time management put together by the University of Chicago.
- University of Minnesota-Duluth's Study Strategies provides links to assessment and learning opportunities.
- York University's Time Management for University Students gives tips on how to plan student time.
Test Taking Skills
- Brazosport College on Improving Your Objective Test-Taking Skills gives tips on how to prepare for exams, tests, and quizzes.
- York University's Preparing for Tests and Exams gives tips on different types of exams.
- Brazosport College's Test Preparation covers long-term preparation and the night before the exam.
- Brazosport College's The Elements of Eloquent Essays discusses how to write an effective in-class essay.