by Suzanne Davis | Sep 3, 2020 | College and Graduate School, Study Skills
Are your college courses on-campus or online? With some universities having only online classes and others doing in-person classes, it’s hard to know what to do to reach your goals for the semester or beyond. What techniques and strategies should you use? What...
by Suzanne Davis | Aug 6, 2020 | Academic Writing Skills, College and Graduate School
I know it sounds a little strange on the surface. How can keeping a reading journal help you have a higher GPA? It gives you an edge over other students because it increases your ability to understand, analyze, and write about what you read—skills other...
by Suzanne Davis | Oct 9, 2019 | College and Graduate School, Writing Essays and Papers, Writing Process
Everyone writes an academic essay that crashes. It doesn’t get the grade you hoped it would, there are comments and corrections along the margins or even just a low grade. It hurts, eats away at your confidence, and it’s especially hard when it happens at the...
by Suzanne Davis | Jul 31, 2019 | College and Graduate School
Which is better for me the ACT or SAT? Even though I teach writing, many students ask me this question, and I want to give them the best answer possible. So, I asked Robin Glembotzky, an ACT and SAT test preparation tutor and founder of Quantum Jump...
by Suzanne Davis | Jul 3, 2019 | Academic Writing Skills, College and Graduate School
“What is academic writing?” This is the most frequent question people ask me. I even wrote a little 3-sentence description answering it so that I could send it out each time someone messages me with that question. Then I thought about my definition, yes it said...
by Suzanne Davis | Nov 29, 2018 | Academic Writing Skills, College and Graduate School, Writing Workshop
What happens when you join an academic writing group? You become a writer and scholar. You are part of a community of writers with the same mission: to write something that will enlighten people in your area of study or profession. Belonging to an academic writing...