Could you use a refresher on the writing, library, and other academic skills required to complete your classwork?
Our collection of interactive guides provides instruction and tips for completing the tasks you often need to perform in Walden master’s programs.
Each guide takes between 15 and 30 minutes to complete and includes knowledge checks and a final quiz to help test your understanding.
You may see these in your classrooms, and you may also find it helpful to review them throughout your program!
Learn how to identify the relationship between citations and DOIs, locate a source by following the citation and the DOI, and format DOIs in a reference entry.
Start Lessons: Access Articles by DOI and Citation
Learn how to understand parts of a research article, identify the main ideas and purpose of research articles, and analyze articles for credibility.
Start Lessons: Analyze and Evaluate Research Articles
Learn how to use Turnitin reports as a tool to identify areas of your writing that need revision, and revise your writing based on your Turnitin report to ensure academic integrity.
Start Lessons: Analyze Turnitin Reports to Revise
Learn how to identify main concepts in complex research topics, use main concepts to identify synonyms or related words to be used as keywords, and employ advanced database searching.
Start Lessons: Break a Topic into Keywords
Learn how to identify the basic elements of reference entries, understand the types of sources provided in the classroom learning resources, and produce APA-style references and citations.
Start Lessons: Cite and Reference Learning Resources
Learn how to identify the benefits and challenges of collaboration, conduct a self-assessment of your collaboration skills, and employ strategies for effective collaboration on group projects.
Start Lessons: Collaborate on Group Projects
Learn how to identify and understand the essential components and formatting of an annotated bibliography, and learn to compose annotations that provide summary, critique, and application of sources.
Start Lessons: Compose Annotated Bibliography
Learn how to identify the benefits and challenges of cultivating resilience and employ strategies for cultivating resilience to overcome obstacles.
Start Lessons: Cultivate Resilience
Learn how to understand what makes up an academic argument; identify strategies for developing a thesis, claims, and support; and recall methods to compare/contrast and respond to counterarguments.
Start Lessons: Develop and Support Arguments
Learn how to prepare for a test with study techniques, approach different types of tests and test questions, and reflect on testing as a growth opportunity.
Start Lessons: Develop Test-Taking Strategies
Learn how to understand the differences between a fixed and growth mindset and identify strategies that will work best for you to cultivate a growth mindset.
Start Lessons: Embrace Growth Mindset
Learn how to reflect on your writing and research process, employ prewriting strategies when researching and planning, and implement revision strategies when writing.
Start Lessons: Embrace Iterative Research and Writing
Learn how to evaluate sources by asking questions, recognizing different types of publications, and determining what types of sources are most appropriate for your purpose.
Start Lessons: Evaluate Resources
Learn how to cultivate a professional presence, identify norms of communication and conduct, and distinguish between professional and unprofessional conduct.
Start Lessons: Guide to Professional Presence in Field Experience
Learn how to understand different types of tests and measures, navigate appropriate databases for locating information about assessments and tests, and locate the full text for assessments.
Start Lessons: Locate Assessment Instruments, Tests, and Measures
Learn how to search for and locate journal articles through the Walden Library databases, identify publication information for articles found, and cite and reference articles using APA style.
Start Lessons: Locate, Cite, and Reference Journal Articles
Learn how to identify, search for, and locate different types of legal and government resources, and how to cite and reference legal resources in APA style.
Start Lessons: Locate, Cite, and Reference Legal Resources
For assignments on current events, I would go to Google and hope to find a legitimate source. I didn’t realize I had access to magazines and newspapers through the Walden Library until I reviewed Locate and Reference Magazines and Newspapers. This module provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions and examples on how to locate and appropriately cite a magazine or newspaper article.
Shannon Gentry, Walden Peer Mentor and MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Student
Learn how to use library databases to locate magazine and news articles, revise APA references provided by the databases for accuracy, and create APA-style references for magazine and news articles.
Start Lessons: Locate and Reference Magazines and Newspapers
Learn how to turn topics into researchable questions and search terms, recognize different types of studies, and search the databases to find research that supports evidence-based practice.
Start Lessons: Locate Evidence-Based Practice
Learn how to identify types of public health data and where they come from, locate public health data on the internet, and use the Walden Library to find public health data.
Start Lessons: Locate Public Health Data
Learn how to identify sources of, barriers to, and benefits of motivation, and apply strategies and tools to maintain motivation and achieve your goals.
Start Lessons: Maintain Motivation
Learn how to identify the benefits of time management, take a time inventory and set priorities, and identify how to set goals and use a calendar to make time for your priorities.
Start Lessons: Manage Time and Navigate Priorities
Learn how to identify available OASIS resources relevant to your needs, access academic skills resources, and bookmark relevant OASIS resources for future use.
Start Lessons: Navigate OASIS Resources
Learn how to identify the main parts of a paper, understand what the MEAL plan is and how to use it for paragraphing, and apply the MEAL plan structure to outline and develop body paragraphs.
Start Lessons: Organize and Develop Paragraphs
Learn how to draft a thesis statement and plan for an essay, identify outlining strategies for paper-level organization, and use techniques for transitioning between and within paragraphs.
Start Lessons: Outline and Organize Ideas
Learn how to paraphrase the main ideas of theories and analyze theoretical approaches.
Start Lessons: Theoretical Approaches
Learn how to identify the differences between paraphrasing and summarizing, use a paraphrasing strategy, and know when and why to cite information.
Start Lessons: Paraphrase and Summarize Information
Learn how to complete a self-care assessment, identify areas for improvement, and employ strategies for prioritizing wellness and self-care.
Start Lessons: Prioritize Wellness and Self-Care
Learn how to make your writing clear and concise, maintain clarity when paraphrasing, and use feedback tools for sustained support in producing clear, concise writing.
Start Lessons: Produce Clear, Concise Writing
Learn how to understand what critical reading is and why it's important; critically read a journal article; and ask questions, take notes, and summarize what you read.
Start Lessons: Read Critically
Learn how to identify the characteristics of literature reviews, conduct a literature search in library databases, identify themes in the literature, and compose paragraphs that synthesize.
Start Lessons: Coursework Literature Reviews
Learn how to identify what assignment prompts are asking you todo and create a plan for how to respond, compose an effective response to the prompt, and use the rubric to identify expectations.
Start Lessons: Respond to the Assignment Prompt
Learn how to overcome the challenges of receiving feedback so you can reap the benefits; clarify, prioritize, and implement feedback; and create a revision plan to implement feedback.
Start Lessons: Revise Based on Feedback
Learn how to identify keywords for methodologies, search databases for specific methodologies, and recognize the methodology used in studies.
Start Lessons: Search by Methodology
Learn how to differentiate between Google and Google Scholar and use advanced search techniques in both search engines to access full-text resources and set up alerts.
Start Lessons: Search Google Effectively
Learn how to refine research questions to align with your area of study and use context clues to locate and identify publications in your area of study.
Start Lessons: Select Sources Appropriate to the Area of Study
Learn how to identify synthesis and analysis, create a foundation for synthesis by organizing by theme, and use the MEAL plan paragraph model to create synthesis in body paragraphs.
Start Lessons: Synthesize Literature
Learn how to use AI tools to develop your ideas for your scholarly writing.
Start Lessons: Finetuning Your Original Ideas
Learn how to use AI tools to develop outlines and thesis statements for your scholarly writing.
Start Lessons: Generating a Thesis Statement
I use aspects of Write Professional Documentation in assignments that require me to consider interdisciplinary communication. The guide also provides information on process recording, which is very helpful during internship classes. I loved that a downloadable checklist is included because it is something that I can use currently and carry forward into my professional career.
-Jody Nelson Walden Peer Mentor and MSW Student
Learn how to identify the common characteristics of professional documentation, a type of writing that is often used in the workplace to record information about patients, clients, students, and employees. Develop strategies for writing professional documentation that is accurate, objective, and clear.
Start Lessons: Write Professional Documentation
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