ACADEMIC SUPPORT QUICK RESOURCES

As busy adult students, meeting live with a Learning Coach might not always work with your schedule. The Academic Support Open Educational Resources (OERS) are quick videos and interactive tools designed to help you refresh or further develop college level academic skills. These easy to use resources often allow you to decide whether all or just part of a topic meets your need. For additional academic support resources, such as tutoring and live workshops, please visit MyESC Academic Support or email academic.support@sunyempire.edu.

 

Academic Writing

Building an Argument

Writing with Sources

Writing Workshop Recordings

College Reading Skills

Math

Study Skills

Obtaining a Copy of an OER

Many resources on this page are the result of collaborations between academic support, educational technology and instructional design and are licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA. Outside parties interested in adopting one of the following OERs are encouraged to use the direct link above. Download links are also available for those needing to adapt/modify or host the resources elsewhere. If you are interested in contacting an OER author, please email an inquiry to Academic.Support@sunyempire.edu. Please Note: SUNY Empire is not responsible for troubleshooting issues with downloaded files.

 Building an Argument

[The following OER was developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant.]

Author: Aisha Wilson-Carter, Mildred VanBergen, Sophia Mavrogiannis, Michael Fortune, Norana Cantrell

Building an Argument OER

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Thesis Statement

Author: Mildred VanBergen, Sophia Mavrogiannis, Aisha Wilson-Carter, Michael Fortune, Norana Cantrell

Creating Your Thesis OER

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Concluding an Argument

Author:  Sophia Mavrogiannis, Aisha Wilson-Carter, Mildred VanBergen, Michael Fortune, Norana Cantrell

Concluding Your Argument OER

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Choosing the Best Graph for Your Data

[The following OER was developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant.]

Author: Seana Logsdon, Anne McDonough, Allison Moreland, and Sue Orrell

Choosing the Bests Graph for Your Data OER

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

Reading a Supply and Demand Graph

[The following OER was developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant.]

Author: Seana Logsdon, Anne McDonough, Allison Moreland, and Sue Orrell

Reading a Supply and Demand Graph OER

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"Writing in Your Own Words" – How to Summarize and Paraphrase 

Learning Objectives:

  • You will learn why you need to summarize and paraphrase in your writing assignments.
  • You will learn a strategy for summarizing and paraphrasing more easily.
  • You will learn how to do in-text citation (in APA 7th edition). 

[The following OER was developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant.]

Author: Brett Sherman

"Writing in Your Own Words" – How to Summarize and Paraphrase OER

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

Paraphrasing and Quotations

Learning Objectives:

  • Explore the purpose and definition of a paraphrase.
  • Learn when to use a quotation.
  • Go over examples of paraphrases that are considered plagiarism.
  • Learn a strategy for paraphrasing source information.

[The following OER was developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant.]

Author: Kelsey Foote, Brett Sherman, Daniel McCrea

Writing with Sources: Paraphrasing & Quotations OER

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

Summarizing

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the definition and purpose of summarizing in an academic paper.
  • Review summaries that would be considered plagiarism.
  • Learn tips for avoiding common mistakes made when summarizing.
  • Be provided with a strategy for summarizing an author's work.

Author: Kelsey Foote, Brett Sherman, Daniel McCrea

Writing with Sources: Summarizing OER

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

In-Text Citations

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the definition of in-text citations.
  • Identify when and how to use in-text citations in your writing.
  • Explore the difference between in-text citation types: parenthetical and signal phrase citations.
  • Write in-text citations using APA formatting.

Author: Kelsey Foote, Brett Sherman, Daniel McCrea

Writing with Sources: In-Text Citations Using APA OER

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

Reference Listing

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the function of the APA Reference Page and how it differs from in-text citations.
  • Identify the formatting details of the APA Reference list.
  • Explore different APA reference listings for a print book, academic article, and web source.
  • Be provided with resources for formatting APA reference listings.

Author: Kelsey Foote, Brett Sherman, Daniel McCrea

Writing with Sources: The APA Reference List OER

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

Working with Linear Equations

[The following OER was developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant.]

Author: Seana Logsdon, Anne McDonough, Allison Moreland, and Sue Orrell

Working with Linear Equations OER

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