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For Thursday 02/06/25, the campus will be closed until 12 noon today due to the severe weather. All classes scheduled after 12 noon will take place as scheduled. Students should check Canvas for details on classes.

Zaven Margosian

Student Success Center

Academic Coaching

Resources to improve your studying and writing skills​.

Writing Resources

The AAC has many resources available to writers, including style guides for MLA, APA, and Chicago. We also have workbooks and manuals on grammar and mechanics. We have most of the literary texts used in the Humanities courses offered at Lawrence Tech, and we can loan these books to you if you need them.

Websites of interest

The LTU Library web page offers tools for citing and making references in your assignments. It includes Citing Sources and RefWorks.

The OWL at Purdue (Purdue University Online Writing Lab) is a one-stop shop for all things writing. Here you can find resources on anything and everything related to writing, including style guides, avoiding plagiarism, developing a thesis statement, and using evidence. You can also email “The OWL” if you have questions that are not addressed at the site.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison Writing Center has a writing handbook that includes sections on stages in the writing process, improving your writing style, and citing references in papers.

The Writing Center at Harvard University has various downloadable resources on different aspects of the writing process. Harvard also produces a number of discipline-specific Student Writing Guides.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides information about MLA style and how to purchase their authoritative publications on MLA style.

The American Psychological Association (APA) style site provides information on how to purchase official APA publication manual.

SSC Handouts

Click on the titles below to download documents related to academic writing and proper citation of sources

Paraphrasing
Evaluating Internet Sources
Common Knowledge
Argumentation
Footnotes
APA Self-paced Tutorial

Study Skills Resources

The following websites, apps and handouts have valuable information to help you with time management, notetaking, research, exam prep and more!

Time Management

Listening and Note-Taking

Reading & Writing

Studying & Exam Preparation

Stress / Test Anxiety

Focus & Attention

Personal Development & Wellness

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.