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Workshops
The Academic Resource Center holds workshops on a variety of topics, all of which are geared toward helping students enhance and improve their time management and study skills. We will organize a workshop at the request of any student group, professor, culture house director, coach, resident director, RA, or scholar-in-residence. We can customize a workshop to fit your needs or, if preferable, you can arrange to meet with one of our staff one-on-one for an individualized consultation. The following list provides examples of topic areas we have covered in the past:
- Time Management
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Strategies for Working Through Perfectionism and Writer's Block
- Making an Effective Schedule
- Effective Academic Reading
- Note-Taking:
- Subject-Specific Study Strategies
- Test-Taking
- Writing
- Academic Integrity and Avoiding Plagiarism
- Getting Fancy with Footnotes
- Writing the Personal Statement
- Public Speaking
- PowerPoint and Beyond: Presentation Skills
- Surviving Your Senior Thesis Defense
- Speaking with Confidence (and Taming Stage Fright!)
To request a workshop or an individualized consultation, please contact Carmen Lowe at carmen.lowe@tufts.edu.
Time Management
Learn how to find a balance between studying,
socializing, sleeping, and enjoying your life! Find
strategies for squeezing extra time out of your day for
getting your work done without leaving things to the
last minute or stressing out over the whole process.
Effective Academic Reading: Techniques for Reading Faster
If you are having difficulty keeping up with your
reading load, learn what may be slowing you down and
some techniques that may increase your reading speed and
your comprehension at the same time.
*Please note that this is not a speed-reading workshop.
Effective Academic Reading: Active Reading
Do you sometimes find yourself reading the same passage
over and over? Or reading a page and having no memory of
what you just read? This workshop will teach you highly
effective techniques for staying focused and remembering
more of what you read. We will also teach you how to
skim quickly to find information in textbooks.
Effective Academic Reading: Reading Scholarly Journal
Articles
Understanding the structure and organization of
scholarly journal articles will help you read them more
quickly and effectively.
Effective Academic Reading: Reading Dense Books in the Humanities
This workshop is for everyone who finds it a challenge
to stay focused and find the main point while reading
philosophy, literary theory, history, and similar
subjects. We will provide you helpful strategies for
effective (that is, quick but thorough) reading of
scholarly books.
Effective Academic Reading: Reading for Science Courses
This workshop provides helpful strategies for effective
(that is, quick but thorough) reading of scientific texts.
Taking Notes from Readings & Research
Techniques and strategies for effective note-taking when
reading assigned texts and conducting research for term papers.
Taking Lecture Notes
Do you find it difficult to take good lecture notes?
This workshop will provide you with strategies for
taking well-organized notes, following the lecture's
structure, developing your own short-hand, and using
your notes to study for exams.
Studying for Science Courses
A panel of science professors and science tutors will
give pointers and answer questions about how to study
effectively for science courses in biology, chemistry,
and physics. Learn strategies for improving performance
on exams, working effectively in study groups, getting
the most out of practice exams and problem sets, among
other things.
Reducing Exam Anxiety
Learn strategies for studying for and taking different
kinds of exams (multiple choice and essay exams), as
well as methods for reducing exam anxiety both before
and during exams so that you can have confidence that
all the studying you do will be reflected in your actual
in-class performance.
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