Open to all UCD students, Learning Skills Center workshops are free but carry no credit.
Sign-ups for workshops begin the first week of the quarter and continue throughout the quarter. To sign up, come to the Learning Skills Center Reception Desk in 2205 Dutton Hall and complete an intake card for any workshops you will attend that quarter.
A workshop designed for students enrolled in a wide range of classes but especially helpful to students enrolled in Workload 57, ENG 3, UWP 1, 18, 101, 102, 104, or to those students having to write essay exams, term papers, or the L&S Composition Examination. Topics will include finding and limiting a topic, developing and organizing support, writing appropriate thesis statements, and outlining. (4 one-hour sessions)
A workshop designed for students who feel they need additional practice in writing essays. Students will write an essay a week in class and meet with the writing counselor during the quarter to discuss their work. (8 one-hour sessions, plus additional consultation hours)
A workishop to acquaint students with strategies for successful in-class writing. Topics wil include prewriting, constructing individual time strategies, and dealing with writing anxiety. (2 one-hour sessions)
This workshop reviews the conventions of different documentation styles for siting sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences areas. The workshop also focuses on creating footnotes and bibliographies, including paraphrasing skills, and problems with plagarism.
Check out essay topics in Resource Room (2211 Dutton); sign up for an appointment to review it during the Specialists' Same-Day Appointments (starting Jan. 10)
Workshop sessions include topics such as reading and prewriting strategies in the context of a different practice exam passage, reflective essays, analysis based on experience, analysis based on sources, and argument essays. Students are welcome to attend any or all sessions. Students from the previous quarter may repeat, as the practice passeges will vary.
Workshop sessions focusing on grammar issues relevant to writing clear and correct sentences for in-class and out-of-class essays, sentence boundaries, correcting fragments, run-ons, and comma splices, subject/verb agreement and pronoun agreement issues, verb tense and consistency questions, sentence structure and sentence logic, including identifying and correcting dangling modifiers and predication errors, and exam grammar, covering drafting and proofreading strategies for the AWP Exam. Students are welcome to attend any or all sessions.
This two-hour workshop reviews reading, prewriting, and exam-taking strategies for the Analytical Writing Placement Exam in the context of a practice exam passage and addresses individual questions and concerns regarding the exam.
This workshop focuses on strategies for improving your writing style, incorporating sources, and paraphrasing. (4 one-hour sessions)
This workshop reviews the graduate/professional school and internship/job application process and the role of the personal statement or application essay in that process. The workshop then offers several approaches to first drafts of essays and suggestions for selecting and organizing material for subsequent drafts.
This workshop provides some essay, paragraph, and sentence revision guidelines and techniques designed to make the application essay more direct, precise, specific, and concise.
A workshop for students who feel they need additional practice in writing but who, perhaps because English is their second language, feel they are not yet ready to write a full-length essay in 50 minutes. Students will write one paragraph each week in class and will make appointments periodically with an ESL counselor to discuss their work. Enrollment open all quarter.
A workshop particularly designed for students enrolled in Linguistics 21 - 26, English 57, UWP, UWP 101, 102, 104, or English 101 who need to review grammar skills. However, all students are welcome. Workshop sessions will emphasize basic sentence structure. Enrollment open all quarter.
This overview of American English pronunciation will focus on the elements of spoken language that are the most important to meaning and communication. Each week, principles of pronunciation along with many practice exercises and strategies for improving fluency in spoken English will be presented.
A workshop (non-credit class) for English as a Second Language students who want to improve their conversational English skills. The informal discussions will include a wide variety of topics, idioms, and vocabulary necessary for social and professional life in the United States, so students should come to the workshop sessions with questions and ideas to share. Enrollment open all quarter.
Students of English and foreign languages may sign up for exchange conversations. Open all quarter.
(Concurrent enrollment in Essay Writing Practice Workshop is recommended.) A review session provided on the day of the LIN 23 or WKLD 57 final exam to help students prepare for the Analytical Writing Placement exam. Topics include improving comprehension of the reading passage, prewriting/thesis/topic sentences, paragraph development and revision of the timed exam.
Preciseness in verbs, logic, and transitions - Focus on grammatical structures essential to upper division writing. Especially useful for ESL transfer students and ESL students in UWP 101, 102, or 104 or Engineering. Individualized instruction; make appointments with Sally Alexander in 2205 Dutton.
ESL Students who are in the process of applying to professional and medical schools may join this workshop for a practice interview and analysis or oral language skills. For individualized instruction; make appointment with Barbara Gunn or Sally Alexander in 2205 Dutton.
