Academic Coaching
Academic coaching is the one-on-one process of helping students identify their strengths and weaknesses, then devising a personal plan. Academic coaches can help with everything from overcoming writing blocks to managing your time better to enhancing your presentation skills.
Academic coaching is supported through your Student Services fee, therefore there is no additional cost to take advantage of this service. Please contact the TRC Reception Desk for assistance with setting up an appointment (210 458 4694).
Below is a list of items that we have helped graduate students with over the past three years and a few testimonials from satisfied students.
Graduate Academic Coaching has helped with the following:
- Time Management
- Writing
- Graduate Hoops
- Professional dervelopment
- Personal
- Study skills
- Setting up timeframes/due dates for various projects
- Backdating
- Using a calender
- Prioritizing
- Balance work, studies, and family
- APA citation style questions
- Chicago citation style questions
- Drafting
- Understanding assignments
- How to do an annotated bibliography/literature review
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Organization
- Developing a higher level writing style
- Timelines for large writing projects
- Overcoming writing blocks
- Establishing confidence in your academic writing
- Comps & Quals
- Disserations
- Thesis
- Scholarship preparation
- Applications to various programs
- Proposals
- Roles of committees (dissertation, thesis, or exam) and how to select members
- Effectively communicating with professors, peers, or groups members
- Poster presentations
- Public speaking
- Conference presentations
- PowerPoint (using professionaly)
- Survey (developing & evaluating)
- Concentration
- Anxiety & feeling overwhelmed
- ESL difficulties
- International student issues & acculturation
- Motivation/attitude
- Imposter syndrome
- Stress and relaxation
- Establishing healthy boundaries
- Conquering breadth of material
- Critical thinking
- Transitioning into grad school
- Generating discussion questions for class lecture
- Establishing (effective) study groups
- Using note cards & flashcards
- Test taking strategies
- Efficient note taking
- Reading effectively
- Basics of organization
- Concept mapping
- Outling
- Charts
