Message from the Tip Master:

Hello all, I hope you all enjoyed the many tips provided over the last few months. I want to thank you all for your continued support in this endeavor to better the life of all college students. Thank you for the opportunity to help me grow as I helped you by providing tips that coincided with the new tips that I learned throughout these months. Writing these blogs allowed me to learn more about myself and reflect on how I handle these topics. This then allowed me to prioritize these topics and trickle them down to you in tip form. I learned that I am very good at giving tips for time management skills, but find it hard to actually follow through with them. That lead me to tip one,

Tip 1 – Actively Time Manage! –  Make sure y’all take the extra time to actually time manage effectively. Do what you say, and say what you do. Make sure to follow through. Keep yourself accountable! Don’t let yourself slip. Keep active track of everything you do and when you should do it! Simple as that. Utilize tools to make up where you lack. For example, some people struggle with remembering certain appointments when swamped with so much to do. Utilize your online calendar or reminder app to help  Set these up in advance.

I also learned to manage my distractions. It was one of my weakness outlined in a time management assessment. I first had to find out exactly what these distractions were to be able to avoid them. Once you know what these are you should be able to find a simple solution to help with this. For example if you live with sibling or room mates that are sort of distracting, try switching locations in which you see them. Just to get work done. If you keep getting distracted by funny cat videos on YouTube, I’ll suggest allowing to watch some before you study and then place your phone in a hard to reach location so it can less likely distract you.

Over the last few months I have been engaged with discussion posts with my fellow classmates. One post we talked about online resources to help your research. From this post I learned about new technologies that I use today.

Tip 2- Find your Tools! – I’m sure many of you are familiar with the Apple phrase “There’s an app for that”. It’s because their is, app designers have been trying to create an app to fulfill all of your needs. This is the same with online resources that are web based. See my previous posts to find some examples.

As I close I urge everyone to hear this “final” tip that will promote a successful college life and career.

Tip 3 – Plan for your Future! –  This is crucial in having success in college, next to having a high GPA. Successful planning leads to less mistakes and more …… well success!

As we part I hope that these tips have helped you liked they helped me. Please continue to read my previous blog post to learn new tips! Say farewell to the old you embrace these new tips and step into the new everyone!

Hello all Students!

These are your student tips in boosting your academic writing. Check it out!

Tip 1 – Searching vs Researching: Know the Difference – The difference is depending on what you are looking for. If you are looking up a simple answer for something, just a simple search on google is all you need. When researching a topic for a paper of some sort you may need to look and critically analyze a few sources first before writing about your topic. Most academic classes will require research.

Tip 2 – Use Credible Sources – There is nothing an instructor dislikes more than a false point due to a bad source. Take the time to double check your sources to make sure it has quality, reliability, and utility. Especially the first two. There is a reason many teachers don’t accept Wikipedia. It has lots of great quality information but it lacks heavily on reliability because you may not know who or when information was typed.

Tip 3 – Use great resources – When writing utilize any resource that will help you where you lack. For example grammerly.com with grammar. Thesaurus.com with alternate word. Easybib as a siting resource. *POWER TIP* USE GOOGLE! It will get you great results very fast compared to the other search engines.

Thank You All!