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Super Useful Things
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Tutoring and Writing Center
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the physical Tutoring & Writing Center is closed. Online Tutoring is available through ThinkingStorm for many introductory courses, including any writing assignments. See the "Bonus Help! Online Tutoring!" button above for more information
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Library Services
Get started with your research! Our databases provide access to the subject encyclopedias, academic journals, and background information you need to ace your projects.
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Ask Us!
Still Flummoxed? Have a question you want an answer too? Check out our FAQ, and if your answer isn't there - send us your question! We'll do our best to answer within one business day.
Virtual Library Orientation (VLO)
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Virtual Library Orientation (VLO)
This online orientation contains self-paced modules focused on the research process, including understanding and using background information and scholarly sources, and interactive tutorials to walk students through using two of our most popular library databases, GVRL and Academic Search Premier.
Online Academic Skills Workshops
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Slaying the Procrastination Monster
Learn techniques and tools to combat procrastination, identify steps to make large projects easier, and get to know FCC resources and key people to help you succeed and thrive. Takes 20-30 minutes to complete.
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Give Test Anxiety the Axe
Learn about test anxiety and how to use the biology behind it to your advantage. Learn how to make the most of your memory, get tips for a successful test day, and be introduced to FCC resources and key people to help you succeed and thrive. Takes 20-30 minutes to complete.
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Close Encounters of the Math Kind: Dealing with Math Anxiety
Learn about the symptoms and causes of math anxiety, discover different approaches to dealing with it, and get to know FCC resources and key people to help you succeed and thrive. Takes 20-30 minutes to complete.
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Read Faster, Note-Take Smarter
Learn proven reading, annotating, and note-taking methods that will make studying easier. Get to know FCC resources and key people to help you succeed and thrive. Takes 45-50 minutes to complete.
Other Academic Skills Tutorials
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Evaluating Sources
A tutorial on why you should evaluate and assess the sources you use in your academic work. This tutorial introduces the CRAAP test as a metric for evaluation, and applies the CRAAP test in the context of opinions and their role in academic writing.
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Plagiarism Tutorial
An interactive guide to help students identify different types of plagiarism and avoid unintended plagiarism, it leads directly into the Why We Cite tutorial.
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Why We Cite Tutorial
Automatically loads after the Plagarism Prevention tutorial, but can be used as a stand-alone module. It discusses why citing is important, the basic anatomy of a citation, and the contexts in which students need to cite.
Database Tutorials
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Academic Search Premier Tutorial
An interactive walk-through of our Academic Search Premier database to show students how to perform a basic search, limit search results, and generate citations.
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CQ Researcher Tutorial
This tutorial provides a walk through on how to search, browse, and use a variety of functions in CQ Researcher.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) Tutorial
An interactive walk-through of our GVRL database to show students how to do a basic search, how to focus search results to find relevant materials, and how to generate a citation.
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PsycARTICLES Tutorial
An interactive walk-through of our PsycARTICLES database to show students how to find scholarly sources and narrow search results, and the basics on how to identify and read a scholarly research article.
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