Week 4 got your head feeling some kind of way? Take a brain break with the The Hub and the Center for Academic Success and Advising's Scavenger Hunt.
Starting Monday September 12th though Friday the 16th, read The Hub’s daily campus announcement or check The Hub’s social media for the riddle to find your way to the secret spot on campus.
Attend our online workshop! Our writing staff will discuss how to develop your topic from a general subject to a specific thesis statement.
*please register by emailing us at thehub@uis.edu with your name, UIN, and which workshop you’re interested in attending
Hi all! I am Rob, The Academic Skills TA for The Learning Hub. I am an international Grad student from the UK.
Graduate and doctoral students seeking assistance with theses and dissertations will be assisted by our Writing Specialists or Writing Coordinator.
If emailing us for an appointment, please use your official UIS email address, as we only communicate with students via UIS email.
In today’s media, we often hear terms like “divisive rhetoric” or “bad rhetoric,” which often gives a negative perception of rhetoric even if someone may not understand what it exactly is. At its core, it’s a term that has its roots dating back to ancient Greece. Back then, they focused on persuasion techniques and speech rather than written text. Now, rhetoric encompasses not only speeches and written works, but also visual rhetorics such as images and film.
A piece of writing is shaped and influenced by its surrounding circumstances and contexts. The rhetorical situation can be described in five parts: purpose, audience, topic, writer, and context. These parts work together to better describe the circumstances and contexts of a piece of writing, which if understood properly, can help you make smart writing choices in your work.
Prewriting is an important step in the writing process. Fully exploring your ideas and planning out how they will take shape in your paper will ensure you are able to achieve your purpose. Depending on your learning style, some prewriting strategies may work better for you than others.
One common prewriting method is thought mapping/webbing, which can complement kinesthetic and visual learning styles.
Prewriting is an important step in the writing process. Fully exploring your ideas and planning out how they will take shape in your paper will ensure you are able to achieve your purpose. Depending on your learning style, some prewriting strategies may work better for you than others.
One common prewriting method is freewriting, which complements kinesthetic and reading/writing learning styles.
