College Learning Strategies Fall 2017

The Promising Practices Conference is this Saturday.  Please attend if you can.  Registration is $5 for students but I can get you a registration waiver if you need one.  Just email me at bstevens@ric.edu and I will arrange it.  There are some great sessions that are DEFINITELY relevant to what we are doing in class. Please register here if you are interested: Promising Practices Registration Here is what you can earn:               Attendance at the event:              25 points               Report back on your session:      50 points               This will certainly be very helpful to anyone who has missed a class....or two...

Class is cancelled Tonight 10/23! I am really sorry for the late notice but I can't make it tonight.  We will delay everything on the syllabus by one week.  Please let me know if you would like to meet this week for help on your essays.

Please be ready to share your writing this week!  It is critical that you have made some progress in both researching and writing your persuasive essays for this week's meeting.  It is fine (actually good) if your writing and research is in a very "rough" phase.  We will work together to fine tune your projects during our meeting.  We can't help you if you don't bring anything for us to work with though.  Please come prepared!

This week I would like you to consider two things: 1) Attending Diversity Week events and 2) How are you doing this semester?  Please make a post in the comments section below.  Evaluate your progress as a student.  What are you doing well?  What areas have you struggled in so far?  Many of you are doing very well in this course.  Others have not really been contributing as much as they could be.  How are your other classes going?  RELAX- WRITE...