Basic Academic Skills Videos
The goal of Basic Academic Skills is to create learning objects that supplement and enrich the University of Prince Edward Island’s writing program as well as to encourage literacy and academic skills within the English as an additional language university community, the K-12 public school system and the public at large. Integration of learning and technology and promotion of effective communication skills in an accessible manner guides the initial uses of the current and future purpose of the objects.
Basic Academic Skills is the result of a partnership between Inukshuk Wireless and the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island, and were created by Amy Kelly. The videos available within this collection are licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.
- Active and Critical Reading
- In this video you'll learn how to make sense of what you read and how to process what you find.
- Brain Storming
- In this video you'll learn about brain storming and how it can help you plan your research.
- Choosing a Topic
- This video introduces you to selecting and developing a topic.
- Databases
- In this video you'll learn why databases are an important part of the research process. The video introduces the concepts of "peer review" and "full text" as they related to databases. [Note: This video was created in 2009 and includes outdated information. Please see the Tutorials section of the Robertson Library website for more up-to-date video tutorials.]
- Essay Building
- In this video you'll learn how to organize and structure essays.
- Grammar Rescue
- In this video you'll learn about sentence fragments, run on sentences and subject verb agreement.
- Outline
- In this video you'll learn why you should create an outline and how to write an outline for your project or essay.
- Print Resources in the Library
- This video introduces you to the types of print resources in the Library, how they're organized, and how you can locate them.
- Punctuation for Beginners
- This video introduces you to constructing proper sentences using independent and dependent clauses and punctuation.
- Thesis Statements
- This video introduces you to creating a strong thesis statement.