• How is university different from high school?
• Resilience and bouncing back from Indiana University
• Motivation video from Indiana University
• Turning stress into resilience TED talk

Researching

• BU Library Guide to  Annotated Bibliographies
• What is Academic Integrity?
• BU Policy on Academic Integrity
• Purdue University Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

Vocabulary and Comprehension

• Guide to using textbooks
• Improving vocabulary or  reading skills
• Vocabulary game
• Reading  Comprehension Exercises
• Using textbooks more effectively

Writing Resources

• BU Academic Skills Centre’s Writing Skills
• The Four Feathers Writing Guide : Connecting oral traditions with academic writing from Theresa Bell at Royal Roads University
• Paul Hensel’s Common Writing Problems
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) with APA and MLA style guides
• Guide to Grammar
• SPARK (Student Papers & Academic Research Kit) from York University including
  • suggestions for thesis statements
  • narrowing your topic

Help with Referencing Styles, Evaluating Electronic Resources, Essay Structure, Critical Reviews, Plagiarism and Punctuation available through BU’s Academic Skills Centre Moodle Site for Writing Skills. From BU’s Moodle home page click on the first link  for Student Services.  There is no need for a password or username as you can log in as a guest.

Campus Connections

• BU Indigenous Peoples’ Centre IPC
• Brandon University HelpDesk for IT related questions
• BU  Campus Life
• Check out the Brandon University Student Life Facebook page
• BU healthy living centre hlc