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This guide is designed to function as a roadmap for student success. It outlines the steps and available resources meant to help you overcome challenges and do your best.

This guide showcases lenses that can be used for critical analysis, including both qualitative and quantitative fields. Several approaches are featured, including: Critical Analysis, Business Analysis, Reading Analysis, and more!

This guide explores annotated bibliographies and literature reviews. It highlights their characteristics and differences, as well as common mistakes to avoid.

Fallacies are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim.

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.

This PowerPoint presentation features additional examples of biases, expanding on the definitions provided in Part 1.

Complexes are flawed patterns and tendencies in comprehension. The American Psychological Association defines complexes as a group or system of related ideas or impulses that have a common emotional tone and exert a strong but usually unconscious influence on the individual's attitudes and behavior.

Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework used to classify educational objectives into tiers. It is a valuable tool for designing learning objectives and assessments. In the context of college writing, Bloom's Taxonomy can guide the development of writing assignments that progressively challenge you to develop your critical thinking and writing skills.

How to write cover letters for college and job applications.

Additional tips and tricks for writing cover letters for college and job applications.

This guide provides practical tips and strategies to help ESL and EAL college students improve their skills in both reading and writing.

A hook is an opening statement (which is usually the first sentence) in an essay that attempts to grab the reader's attention so that they want to read on.

Understanding the distinction between undergraduate and graduate-level writing is essential for college students.

An intro paragraph is like a roadmap. It prepares the reader for your research journey with clarity and purpose. Take a look at this guide if you want to make your intros more inviting, informative, and intriguing.

What are common issues with the way people record, store, and recall memory? How does it affect your ability to create high quality arguments?

Take a look at this guide if you would like additional insight into how to create robust and strategic alphanumeric outlines.

This outline template uses bullet points, rather than a system of letters, numbers, Roman numerals, or decimals.

This guide addresses the topic of reading analysis and explores a variety of ways students can improve their reading skills.

By utilizing these research resources effectively, students can gather high-quality sources and information to support their writing projects, ensuring credibility and academic integrity in their work.

This writing guide explores qualitative and quantitative research, their characteristics, strengths, and differences.

Low quality sources have a habit of being sneaky, and there can be issues with trustworthiness that may not be readily apparent. Click this source if you would like to see what renders a source unfit for use in your assignments.

This guide will help you understand why it's so important to use the most up-to-date resources when writing an essay.

What are they, and what are some tips and tricks for writing one? Click here to learn how to craft high quality intro sentences for your body paragraphs.

Tips, tricks, and examples concerning transition sentences.

What are transition words and phrases, and why are they important in a college essay?

A step by step guide to the writing process.