Utilize these excellent resources provided by 亚色影库's Writing Center to enhance your Writing and Communication Skills. In addition to the helpful links below, there are Soft Skill Tutors available online and in person.
Cybersecurity Writing Tutor Training
The specialized STEM-related cybersecurity writing tutors are trained to work online, analyze computer science assignments, understand its technical language, and assess student learning. Videos, pre/post tests, and handouts are all utilized during and after tutoring sessions to provide additional learning. Tutors have helped students in a range of topics from organizing papers to documenting sources.Six tutors with STEM-related backgrounds learned the technical aspects of communicating in cybersecurity fields. Tutors completed 13 training hours in which they were trained to work online with students, to analyze assignments, to understand the technical language of the field, and to assess student learning. Also, tutors created resources to help students during and after tutoring sessions. Tutors made videos, pre-tests and post-tests, and handouts. Finally, tutors helped students with an array of topics. Topics included understanding the assignment, brainstorming ideas, choosing a topic, researching a topic, outlining, writing a thesis and main idea, developing ideas, using examples and details, incorporating research, introductions and conclusions, organization, transitions and flow, voice and style, word and sentence errors, punctuation, documenting sources, formatting the document, and next steps for the writer. To see more from the Kathleen Jones White Writing Center at 亚色影库, visit .
Resources
Help Sheets
- Citing sources using MLA style
- Citing sources using APA style
- Sample paper in APA style
- Using formal vs. informal language
- Writing balanced sentences
- Correcting for subject-verb agreement
- Proofreading your writing
- Writing for your audience
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Correcting Fragments, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices
- Writing effective introductions
- Using inclusive language
- Revising passive voice
- Planning a Problem-Solution Essay
- Writing thesis statements
- Using transitional words and phrases
- Understanding Grammarly
- Grammarly flaws
- Tone in Emails
- Conveying Technical Information in Email
- Identifying Technical Language
- Email Etiquette
- Email for cybersecurity
- Parts of an Abstract
- Anatomy of an Abstract
- Responding to Writing
- Anatomy of a Memo
- Making strong recommendations
Audio Presentations and Powerpoints
- Introduction to using the writing center
- APAStyle
- MLA Style
- Communicating With Professors
- Writing Professional Memos and Emails
- Tone in Emails
- Email Etiquette
- Abstracts in Context
- Responding to Writing
- Memos in the Workplace
- Writing recommendation reports that work
- Proofreading
- Rhetorical Situation
- Understanding the assignment
Meet with a Tutor
- Meet with a tutor online
- See a tutor in person
- Tutoring is also offered at the Computer Science Department (112C Stright Hall). Download the flyer with details and hours for the spring of 2018 semester.