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With our Catholic liberal arts heritage and over 100 degree programs, including nursing and marine biology, from bachelors through PhDs, we've got your options covered. Focus on arts and sciences, business, education, social work, communication, nursing, medical sciences, theology, or law. Take things further with personalized research and experiential learning opportunities, on and off-campus. Enhance your prospects with hands-on internships at some of the country's top organizations.

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Academic Support

Barry University Students

The path to your perfect career begins with planning and support. Career Development has resources for you to help you make the most of your time at Barry. Guidance is just an appointment away.

Service-learning integrates relevant community service with course work and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience, foster social responsibility and civic engagement, and strengthen communities.

Service-Learning

The Honors Program at Barry is designed to challenge, enrich, and prepare especially motivated students to pursue their fullest potential. By participating in a rigorous curriculum rounded out by an array of edifying and interactive events, students explore crucial issues that we face in our daily lives. Students are given the space for discussion and debate and the opportunity to learn from experts in their fields. The Office of Financial Aid can assist with determining eligibility for the Honors Program.

The Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library is located in the center of the beautiful Miami Shores campus of Barry University. The Library is named in loving memory of Monsignor William Barry, one of the founders of Barry University and an inspirational figure in the Catholic Church within the Archdiocese of Miami. The extensive Library research collections include more than 950,000 physical items, over 40,000 print and on-line journal subscriptions, and several thousand on-line books and streaming video resources.

At Barry University, you will experience a small community atmosphere where you can always rely on our administrators and faculty for advice, encouragement and personal attention. We take great pride in giving individual attention from the very beginning. You can start building a personal relationship with one of our admissions counselors who will help answer any questions, and guide you through the entire admissions and enrollment process.

Continuing Education (CE) offers a variety of courses and non-credit programs designed to respond to the diverse educational interests and lifelong learning needs of individuals of all ages. We offer certificate, credential exam preparation, and licensure programs for professional and personal enrichment.

High school students: Get a jump-start on your college education with dual enrollment courses from Barry University! You can earn high school and college credit at the same time, right at your own school.

Dual Enrollment

Barry University is committed to provide you with a dynamic and flexible approach to your degree pathway through our online courses and degree programs. We understand that balancing academics, work, and personal commitments can be challenging. That's why our online offerings are designed to fit seamlessly into your busy schedule, allowing you to pursue your educational goals without compromising on other important aspects of your life.

Distance Education

We are committed to providing programs and services that are guided by Barry University's rich educational mission and intended to enhance your Barry experience. Through partnerships with others in the university community, we aim to create experiences that will help transform you into leaders for a just and humane world.

We are an NCAA Division II school and a member of the Sunshine State Conference with 12 varsity teams, including men's baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and tennis; and women's basketball, golf, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. So far, we've won 24 NCAA championships, had 338 All-Americans, 413 Scholar All-Americans, and nine NCAA "Women of the Year" finalists, the most of any Division II school. Not bad at all, but we're going for more.

Campus Life

For students currently enrolled in classes at Barry, we have a wealth of resources you can tap into to bring ease and efficiency to your university experience. Get the help you need with administrative or financial questions, or check out course catalogs to help plan your schedule by semester. All the information you need to excel is at your fingertips.

Writing Center Resources

Center for Academic Success and Advising

Writing Center Resources for The Student Writer

Useful Links

http://apastyle.org

This website contains tutorials, FAQs, APA blog, sample APA papers, and other resources that enable students to improve their writing, master the APA Style, and learn the conventions of scholarly publishing.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu

This online resource provides users with over 200 free resources such as writing and teaching writing, research, grammar and mechanics, style guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), and job search and professional writing.

https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/index.htm

This website maintained by Capital Community College allows users to check grammar and ask questions about writing. The site’s numerous interactive vocabulary quizzes will help students improve their reading skills.

This site helps anyone who uses English as their second language to help with grammar, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, and there are many online quizzes available in subjects like writing, grammar, and reading comprehension.

http://www.howjsay.com/

This site is a free online talking dictionary of English to help your pronunciation with words and terms.

https://powa.org/

This site has helpful tips and pointers for writing a paper with online practice activities to help you improve your paper writing skills. It offers help with informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, and exploratory essays. It also offers help with editing, organizing and revising your papers.

Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing 

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/

This site helps you to understand the differences between quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QuotingSources.html

This site will help to show you how to paraphrase and quote accurately.

Practice Paraphrase 

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/

Citation Styles  

MLA https://www.mla.org/MLA-Style
http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
APA http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/
http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/

Play recording (58 mins) Please click on this link to access a video-recorded APA Presentation (7th edition). Recording password: (This recording does not require a password.)
CBE/CSE https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/
http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/
Chicago http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/1/
http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/

The Writing Center has many handouts on grammar, research documentation, and other aspects of writing. We also maintain a library of reference books open to all students, faculty, or alumni during our regular hours. Come to the Writing Center for:

The writing center maintains a small library of resources that includes the following: 

  • Research Guides
  • Style Manuals
  • Handbooks
  • Documentation Guides
  • Dictionaries
  • Thesaurus
  • English Grammar

We also have handouts that address an array of specific concerns that a writer may have. 

Download the handouts in Microsoft Word format:

Grammar

  1. Apostrophe
  2. Apostrophe Rules
  3. Apostrophe – Mini Lesson
  4. Article Use
  5. Articles & Determiners
  6. Capitalization
  7. Comma
  8. Conjunctions
  9. Fragments, Run-Ons, & Comma Splices
  10. Fused Sentences
  11. Grammar & Usage Diagnostic
  12. Homonym
  13. Hyphens
  14. Pronoun
  15. Pronoun Rules
  16. Run-On Sentences and How to Fix Them
  17. 5 Sentence Combining
  18. Tips for Verbal Dieting

Writing Process

  1. Audience
  2. Clarity & Conciseness
  3. Joining Idea
  4. Parallelism
  5. Prewriting Skills & Writer’s Block
  6. Thesis Statement
  7. Timed Writing
  8. Topic Sentences
  9. Visual 5 Paragraph Essay
  10. Writing Effective Titles
  11. Written 5 Paragraph Essay

Research & Documentation Styles

  1. Academic Writing
  2. Application Essay
  3. Critiques
  4. Planning an Argument
  5. Response Essay
  6. Review Article
  7. Revising Prose
  8. Summarizing a Research Article
  9. Writing Center Favorites

Writing Center's PowerPoint Presentations

  1. How to Write Papers in Biological Sciences
  2. Formatting References or Works Cited in Word
  3. How to delete extra space between paragraphs in Word 2007
  4. Work Around for Headers in APA

Mini Tutorials

  1. Apostrophe
  2. Capitalization
  3. Comma Splices
  4. Comma Usage
  5. Drawing Conclusions
  6. Fragments
  7. Paraphrasing
  8. Pronoun Case
  9. Pronoun Reference
  10. Run-Ons
  11. Sentence Combining
  12. Word Choice
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