Text & Talk

Improve your reading, critical thinking and speaking skills

Improve your reading, critical thinking and speaking skills to better manage the university reading load and confidently present your ideas. 

In this 4-week session students will practice diverse reading techniques on a variety of texts, then logically and purposefully organize ideas from the texts into speaking points, and present those ideas in a small group setting.   

Trent micro-credential eligible! 

Program begins Tuesday, September 17, 2024 and runs weekly until the last session on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 . Sign up to join

This is a 4-week comprehensive workshop series designed to help university students develop their university-level reading, critical thinking, and speaking skills with the goal of applying these skills in their academic courses and future vocations. Students will practice diverse reading techniques on a variety of texts, then logically and purposefully organize ideas from the texts into speaking points, and present those ideas in a small group setting.   

By the end of four weeks, students will be comfortable and confident with the following skills:   

1. Reading skills   
   1. Engaging with different types of texts presented in various formats.   
   2. Practicing different reading techniques    
2. Critical thinking skills   
   1. Identifying key features in a text    
   2. Analyzing and evaluating key features of texts   
   3. Purposefully and logically organize ideas to prepare as speaking points (perhaps using notes)   
3. Speaking skills   
   1. Presenting ideas in small groups   
   2. Articulate ideas clearly with relative ease   
   3. Responding to and discussing questions and comments about readings   

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