Success Clinic Descriptions

Microcomputer Applications Success Clinic: In this clinic, students are introduced to the relationships among the textbook, trainer, grader, and tests. Students gain hands-on experience using the textbook and the Trainers hints and show me features to take class notes. Emphasis is placed on students developing their own system for note taking, with opportunity to do so. How to Succeed at Science and Math: Unit Conversion Clinic: Chemistry and Math students are introduced to a Step Method to increase skills and confidence in solving mathematical problems that involve converting units. A demonstration of defining equivalent fractions is followed by students practicing working with equivalent fractions to convert one unit to another unit, whether in metric or English measurement systems. Doble la Diversin: Double Object Pronouns (SPN 2): This clinic is aimed at clarifying the difference between direct and indirect object pronouns, reviewing them in Spanish, and covering the exceptions to these rules. There will be minimal lecture followed by exercises and pair-work to reinforce the lesson with opportunities for Q & A. Te gusta qu? The Verb Gustar (SPN 1): The verb gustar is reviewed, covering the reverse placement of subject and object. Students engage with the content through practice exercises. To reinforce the concepts addressed, students are led through an introduction to future verbs like gustar. Develop Your Style: Academic Voice: Students learn tips for adapting their writing styles and develop an awareness of appropriate voice in academic writing. Through open discussion and review of techniques, they will identify at least two examples of informal and formal writing. In peer groups, using a prepared exercise or students drafts if applicable, they will discuss, define, edit, and explain what changes will strengthen their academic writing. Elaborate, Collaborate: The Writing Workshop: This peer editing and writing clinic provides an introduction to collaborative techniques and behaviors, as well as interactive assistance and guidance from the facilitator to encourage the development of peer-driven workshop habits. The clinic is designed, but can be adapted, to assist instructors who have assigned essay or research paper drafts and students who have prepared their drafts.

MLA/APA Formatting and Citation Workshop: During the first of this two-part workshop co-facilitated by Faculty Librarians and Learning Lab Specialists, students use tools in Word 2010 to change unformatted paragraphs into an MLA-style essay. A lecturette offers background information on MLA style and is followed by a step-by-step guide of how to set up a formal heading, space lines correctly, make a block quote, skip to a new page, and create a hanging indent for a bibliography page. During the second part, Librarians explain the students responsibilities in presenting researched materials, including explanations of plagiarism, common knowledge, direct quotations, and paraphrasing. Chicago Style Success Clinic: In this clinic, students engage in the use of tools within Word 2010 to change an unformatted essay to a correctly formatted essay in Chicago Manual style. Students develop cover pages, add page numbering, and insert correctly-formatted footnotes in their essays using information from bibliography entries. Standards for a Research Paper Success Clinic: Students are introduced to a fast-paced review of the requirements of an MLA-style research paper, including correct formatting, academic writing, thesis statements, grammar, and punctuation. Following the review, students participate in a story-chain exercise which points out fragments and run-on sentences, which they correct as a group. Students receive Learning Lab tip sheets that correspond to the topics reviewed.

New Success Clinic in Design:

Activate Your Reading Success (working title): This clinic will focus on how to become a more active reader using our tip sheet and an engaging reading sample. What is an active reader versus a passive reader? The three major stages of reading will be presented and discussed, and students will prepare strategies to summarize texts by reading the passage then joining a focus group to discuss their summary and understanding of the text. Class will reconvene to discuss the benefit of active reading strategies and celebrate by sharing their written summaries. Learning Specialists design Success Clinics using a research-based instructional design process. Faculty are consulted to confirm Success Clinic relevance to what is taught across disciplines. Learning Specialists also use data from observations of areas students demonstrate having a need for academic support, to determine Success Clinic topics and design. To schedule a Success Clinic for classes, or make recommendations for new Success Clinics, please contact Learning Lab Coordinator, Melissa Alvarez Mangual at 433-5224 or via email at alvarezmangualm@brevardcc.edu.