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Make this your Best Term Yet

Would you like to become a better presenter?  Better at organizing your time?  Interested in finally mastering APA citations?  The UI&U Library has many handbooks, videos, and other resources that can help make this your best term yet!

SUCCESS AS AN ONLINE STUDENT

• Success as an online student: Strategies for effective learning by Fandl & Smith (ebook, 2014)
• Online education for dummies by Johnson and Manning (ebook, 2009)
• TEDTalks: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better (video, 22 min., 2006)
• Researching, reading, and writing (video, 12 minutes, 2009)

LISTENING

• TEDTalks: 5ways to listen better by Treasure (video, 8 minutes, 2011)
• Active listening: Improve your ability to listen and lead by Hoppe (ebook, 34-pages, 2006)

 PRESENTATIONS

• Brilliant public speaking (video, 60 minutes, 2010)
• How to give a pretty good presentation: A speaking survival guide for the rest of us by Walker (ebook, 2010)

 READING & REASONING

• Active reading: Comprehension and rate (video, 11 min)
• Reading, writing, and reasoning: A guide for students by Fairbairn & Winch (e-book)
• Assumptions: Critical thinking (video, 26 min., 2009)
• Credibility: Critical thinking (video, 39 min., 2009)

 PLAGIARISM & CITATION

• Plagiarism 2.0: Information ethics in the digital age (video, 21 min., 1997)
• TEDEd: The punishable perils of plagiarism on TEDEd by D’Annunzio (video & lesson, 2013)
• Ethical behaviour in the e-classroom: What the online student needs to know by Smith (ebook, 2013)

 TEST TAKING

• Test-taking strategies by Kesselman-Turkel & Peterson (e-book, 2004)
• This Is a test…this Is only a test: Test-taking techniques  (video, 30 min., 1992) *dated, but good suggestions

 ORGANIZATION & TIME MANAGEMENT

• Time management (video, 17 min., 1995) *dated, but good suggestions
• Assignment calendar (video, 2 min., 1992)

 WRITING

• Ten steps of writing for results (video, 4 min., 1991)
• Good grammar for students by H. Jackson (e-book,  2005)

RESEARCH

• The craft of research (3rd ed.) by Booth, Colomb, & Williams (e-book, 2008)
• Information literacy: The perils of online research (video, 21:37 min., 2006)