Study Skills Resources
Our peer tutors have collected resources to help you improve your study skills, including:
- General Study Skills
- Learning Languages
- Learning to Learn Online
- Making a Study Schedule
- Presentation Skills
- Reading Skills
- Test Taking
- Working in Groups
Book an Appointment
Tutors can review skills like memorization, organizing oral presentations, exam taking strategies, and note-taking as well as provide support to learn about academic integrity. Build your study skills and strategies in the following ways:
REAL-TIME
Peer tutors can meet with you for 25/55-minute sessions in-person at the New West or Coquitlam campus or via Zoom. Choose "Consultation" from the 'Get help with..." drop-down menu to speak to a tutor about your needs.
WORKSHOPS
Learning Centre workshops focus on academic strategies you need to be successful in your courses; the workshops are led by Learning Centre instructors, English Language tutors and peer tutors.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
Book a tutoring session to review your understanding and skills for avoiding plagiarism. Choose the following appointments from the drop-down menu when making an appointment.
Avoiding Plagiarism
- To learn how to paraphrase and quote effectively, without plagiarizing.
- In this appointment, you’ll focus on developing your paraphrasing and ability to use sources as evidence in your writing assignments. The tutor will introduce you to Douglas College Learning Centre resources available.
- If you have a writing assignment you are currently working on where you are integrating sources as evidence, please bring it to this session. A graded assignment will also work to review concepts with the tutor.
Using Sources and Citations
- To learn how to access and follow guides and manuals in order to use APA, MLA and other citation styles to format your writing assignments, as well as how to connect with a librarian for support with citation formatting.
- In this appointment, you’ll learn how to find the formatting and style rules needed for your assignments, as well as what aspects of the style and formatting are important in most college assignments. The tutor will introduce you to resources available, as well as help you come up with a plan to keep learning the skills needed.
- When booking your appointment, choose the citation style you want to learn about to ensure that you meet with a tutor who is familiar with that particular set of formatting and style rules.
Other Academic Integrity Topics
- To increase awareness of the principles and concepts behind academic integrity and intellectual property, and to answer questions about academic integrity concepts beyond plagiarism and citations.
- In this appointment, you’ll build on your understanding of academic integrity. The tutor will also introduce you to Douglas College resources available, as well as help you come up with a plan to keep learning the skills needed.
Learn more about academic integrity resources at Douglas College.
Learning Plans for Study Skills
Students wanting support with a longer-term plan for learning strategies can choose to meet with a tutor for weekly sessions. The first appointment, called an Intake, will be scheduled with Learning Centre instructor. During this appointment, you will be asked questions about your needs and the study skills you already bring with you. This information will be used to create a Learning Plan for you to work on during a series of weekly sessions with a peer tutor.