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Library Tutorials & Workshops

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This list of tutorials from Mason Libraries will help you develop essential research skills to seek diverse voices, evaluate research, and more.
How do you select a topic and research question? (video, 5:47)
Working on your topic? Use this tutorial to help you focus your topic and develop your research question.
What are the characteristics of a good research question? (video, 3:25)
What is a research question?
This brief tutorial can help you with developing your research question.

Upcoming Library Workshops and Events

Library Workshops & Events

Academic Support at Mason

George Mason University provides a number of academic support services free of charge.

Academic Skills Workshops
The academic skills workshops can help you improve your academic performance and develop your study skills. Workshops include: Exam Strategies, Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies, Note-taking, and Memory Strategies.
The Writing Center: Tutoring
The Writing Center offers face-to-face, video, and email tutoring, as well as ESL Writing Support.
Academic Coaching Program
The Academic Coaching Program helps students adjust to higher education. Peer Academic Coaches meet with students to develop study plans, discuss time management, goal setting, reading strategies, and more.
Digital Scholarship Center
The Digital Scholarship Center helps you find, access, and use statistical, geospatial and qualitative data as well as digital humanities, as well as relevant software. They instruct and consult on data discovery, acquisition and use, data management and data management plans, GIS, methodology, and more.

Writing Center Video Roadshow – 2022 (video, 3 min.)

This video provides an overview of the Writing Center's services and a brief introduction to making an appointment.

Welcome to the George Mason University Writing Center. We're located here in the lab for writing and communication in Johnson Center Room 227E.

Here you can work with our well-trained consultants on any project in any discipline and at any point in your career at Mason. Our resources are free and available to all writers in the Mason community including students, staff, faculty, and alumni. Our consultations are 45 minutes long and during that time we can work with you on all types of writing at any stage in the writing process.

Just getting started, we can walk through your assignment prompts, so that you can create a plan for your writing. Have a rough draft or a polished draft? We can work on strategies for revising your writing. If you're just stuck, we can work on getting you unstuck.

We have strategies and resources for brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, proofreading, and editing your paper. At the end of a consultation, you can expect to walk away with three things: some good feedback, some concrete techniques to use for future drafts, and a plan to develop and revise your paper.

For your convenience, we offer both in-person and online appointments. In an in-person appointment, you'll meet your consultant face-to-face right here in the lab for writing and communication. What if you can't make it to campus for your appointment? No problem, you can choose from one of our two online appointment formats. We offer zoom sessions, where you'll meet with your consultant via video chat . If you can't meet with your consultant in real time, we offer written feedback sessions, where you'll upload a draft and receive written comments from your consultant.

The writing center also has programs designed to support specific writer's needs. If English is not your first or home language, we hope that you enroll in the ESOL opt-in program. If you are registered with the disability services office, you can enroll in our DS opt-in program. Both programs offer regular weekly appointments with the same consultant for the duration of the semester.

If you're working on a thesis, dissertation, proposal, article for publication, or any paper longer than 15 pages, you can make a specialized appointment with a thesis dissertation consultant. In this kind of appointment, you'll upload your draft by 9 a.m on the day of your session to allow your consultant time to read your work before you meet.

For more information or to make an appointment, visit our website writingcenter.gmu.edu

There you'll find more details about our services, as well as a video with instructions on how to register for an account with our online scheduler and book your appointment. Of course if you have any questions, you can stop by the lab in Johnson Center Room 227E, email us, or call us at 703-993-1200.

It's so rewarding to get meaningful feedback on your writing. Come see us soon! We're looking forward to working with you.

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Scholarly Production Commons (SP@RC)

The mission of the SP@RC lab is to create self-sufficient scholars who are able to apply best practices in design and research presentation to their work. We provide workshops on various topics as well as one-on-one consultations.

For more information,go to the SP@RC webpage.

SP@RC is the result of a partnership between the University Libraries, Students as Scholars (OSCAR), The Writing Center, the Department of Communication and the Mason Publishing Group.