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Storytelling 101: How to Tell Your Story During an Interview

Interviewing can be a nerve wracking process, but the better prepared you are prior to an interview, the better you will feel. Join us in a discussion about storytelling and how you can use your story and experiences during an interview to hopefully land you a job opportunity. Register for this event. Instructions: Go to zoom.us/join or download...

Writing Center Workshop: Types of Central Questions

Writing skills are essential to your success in both college and career. The BMCC Writing Center can help you improve your writing. The Writing Center’s “Types of Central Questions” workshop gives composition students an alternative way of analyzing arguments, by examining the central question being asked by the writer. Participants will learn to identify how writers...

Writing Center Workshop: Building Vocabulary

Writing skills are essential to your success in both college and career. The BMCC Writing Center can help you improve your writing. New school, new words! College can bombard students with words that entirely foreign to you. All of this can leave you scratching your head.  In this workshop, students will embrace the search for definitions...

Writing Center Workshop: How To Be A Good Proofreader

Writing skills are essential to your success in both college and career. The BMCC Writing Center can help you improve your writing. So, you finished your paper? Now what? Are you still not sure if it is ready to be graded by your professor? Building strong proofreading skills is valuable in college. It helps develop independence...

Writing Center Workshop: Interpreting vs. Retelling

Writing skills are essential to your success in both college and career. The BMCC Writing Center can help you improve your writing. For students new to academic writing, one the toughest things is knowing the difference between interpreting an idea and just repeating it. This workshop introduces students to some best practices for discerning meaning from...

Writing Center Workshop: How to Use Signal Verbs (And Why You Need Them)

Writing skills are essential to your success in both college and career. The BMCC Writing Center can help you improve your writing. Understanding how to properly use signal verbs and phrases can help students introduce quotes and ideas more effectively, while helping to avoid plagiarism. This brief workshop reviews best practices for paraphrasing and...

Writing Center Workshop: Reliable Vs. Unreliable Sources

There’s a lot of talk about “reliable sources” in college. What does that mean? How can you learn to tell the difference between a reliable source and an unreliable source? Knowing the difference can greatly improve the effectiveness of your research paper and critical reading skills. This workshop will help you develop the skills...

Writing Center Workshop: How to Read Poetry in College

Writing skills are essential to your success in both college and career. The BMCC Writing Center can help you improve your writing. College introduces students to a lot of different forms of writing. Some students might say that the most intimidating form is poetry due to its assumed emphasis on sound rather than meaning. Regardless, poetry...