Who are your fellow students? It can feel like you are all alone in your studies, but across the nation, around the globe, students like you are also pursuing their AU education, and The Voice Magazine wants to bring their stories to you and vice versa. If you would like to be featured next, do… Read more »
AthaU Facebook Group Several posts reveal confusion surrounding the two-step process for booking exams: booking an invigilator (of which ProctorU is one,) and requesting the exam from AU. Channy reports a motivation dive during the final course; other students report similar experiences when the end is in sight. Other posts include transcripts, course registration deadlines,… Read more »
In Latin the word vulgaris refers to something common, but we’re not at AU because we’re average, right? We’re here to transcend our ordinary lives by bettering ourselves through education. With that in mind we can all recall absorbing common ideologies about personal learning styles. It’s a song as old as rhyme: each of us… Read more »
You’ve just been assigned a project to evaluate a restaurant. An evaluation essay is like an opinion piece, so you should express your opinion, right? Not exactly. Opinion pieces are biased. Evaluation pieces, ideally, are not. “Though an evaluation essay encourages injecting some opinion, it should not be opinionated! A good evaluation essay is aimed… Read more »
Who couldn’t use an extra $1000 for their studies? Sixteen AU students can look forward to a $1000 scholarship boost from AUSU this fall. AUSU has two award cycles each year. The fall awards cycle opened for applications October 1, with a deadline of November 1. Last week’s article summarized the AUSU Bursaries and the… Read more »
Scholarship name: Live Your Dream Award Sponsored by: Soroptimist Deadline: November 15, 2020 Potential payout: up to $16,000 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be women who have been accepted to an undergrad degree or vocational/skills training program, are the primary financial support for themselves and their dependents, and have financial need. See full eligibility requirements. What’s… Read more »
On Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, AUSU Council and the candidates elected at the by-election gathered for the September Council meeting. Missing from the meeting with regrets were councillors Devon Romanick and lor Kathryn Hadden. Each meeting, AUSU starts with an acknowledgement to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada that it is their traditional lands that AUSU… Read more »
Throughout this pandemic, increasing reports of systemic inequality, violence, and disregard for those most vulnerable in our communities have become the focal point in mainstream media. In many ways, these reports underscore the reality that the pandemic has proven to be the breaking point in a historical record filled with inequitable treatment, racism, prejudice, xenophobia,… Read more »
For AU students who regularly leave the home for part-time work, groceries, or other commitments, masks are now an essential part of life outside the home. Sometimes continuous masking is required in public locations and must be worn for many hours at a time. For those who do this regularly, you’re familiar with the skin… Read more »
Writing an essay? Use formal tone. Writing a nonfiction book? Use conversational tone. Writing a blog post? Try a snappy tone. But how do you create these tones in the first place? Here are seven tidbits for drafting the perfect tone, according to Jennifer Goforth Gregory (2018) in her book Freelance Content Marketing Writer Find… Read more »